This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and t

This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the int

Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses elasticity in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective.

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective, using the well-researched languages of En

The twenty-three articles in this volume are based on papers and posters presented at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO) at Palacký University in the