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Direct linkRiddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
Peer reviewedPeng, Fred C. C. – Language Sciences, 1974
Examines the relationship between speaker and hearer in linguistic communication. (LG)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Role, Language Skills, Language Usage
Peer reviewedKhubchandani, Lachman M. – Language Sciences, 1974
Sociolinguistic patterns of India are discussed. (LG)
Descriptors: Demography, Language Patterns, Language Planning, Language Role
Peer reviewedMyhill, John; Xing, Zhiqun – Language Sciences, 1994
Presents a systematic comparison of the function of voice alterations in three genetically unrelated languages--Biblical Hebrew, Chinese, and English. It is shown that passive or passivelike function can be divided into a number of discrete functional types, each of which is associated with a certain combination of translation equivalents in the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Hebrew
Peer reviewedSastri, M. I. – Language Sciences, 1973
Descriptors: Creativity, Expressive Language, Figurative Language, Language Patterns
