The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every
known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict …

How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro
Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human …

Language Learning, Gender and Desire explores Japanese women? s desire for English as
a means of identity transformation and as access to the West and its masculinity. Drawing on …

This paper focuses on the ways in which speakers make reference to themselves, to one
another, and to objects in the everyday settings of talk. Drawing on research in linguistic …

This article suggests that the theory of language socialization could benefit from adopting
some key concepts originally introduced by the philosopher Edmund Husserl in the first part …

This paper outlines an approach to fieldwork on the semantics and pragmatics of deixis.
Deictic expressions, such as English 'this, that, here, there,'are typically used to individuate …

This book examines how style and intersubjective meanings emerge through language use.
While numerous studies on youth language focus on face-to-face interaction, this book …

This reexamination of Hill's “Voices of Don Gabriel” looks at the role of typifications, and
conflicts among them, in the process of moral self‐formation and even self‐discovery. What …

What do we mean when we say things like'If only we knew what he was up to!'Clearly this is
more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing …

To analyse the ontogeny of sociality in any given case is to throw into question various
current ideas of sociality as instinct, or as based in an innate theory of mind, or as the …