Connective-Lex: A Web-Based Multilingual Lexical Resource for Connectives by Manfred Stede, Tatjana Scheffler, Amália Mendes

“…We discuss how the multilingual integration of several connective lexicons provides added value for linguistic researchers and other users interested in connectives, by allowing crosslinguistic comparison and a direct linking between discourse relational devices in different languages. …”
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La transmission familiale du breton : les stratégies de communication des parents by Katell Chantreau

“…In the 1950s, the vast majority of the Breton population stopped bringing up their children in Breton, paving the way for linguistic change. However, since the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of people have been working to ensure that the Breton language is reclaimed by the people of Brittany. …”
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Le jardin dans la littérature fin-de-siècle, ou quand un motif narratif devient un objet esthétique by Geneviève Sicotte

“…Moreover, the garden is no longer a narrative motif serving only the development of a story and the construction of characters; its linguistic components become essential. It thus becomes an autonomized æsthetic object, capable of creating new meanings.…”
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Les identités de la ville : Éléments analytiques pour une étude sociolinguistique by Souheila HEDID

“…Our purpose is to show that the integration of a space is a complex experience because it calls for a multiform adaptation, as well social, psychological as linguistic….…”
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Réflexions d’Inuit en contexte post-colonial : des identités culturelles en marche by Natacha Roudeix

“…This ethno-sociolinguistic study (Blanchet, 2012) exposes Inuit cultural and linguistic experiences which revealed that by actively participating in their Inuit way of life, young and old alike learn to live their “inukness” (Qilavaaq, 2012), the Inuit way to say, act, think and live. …”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…There are diverse spiritualities, each one culture-specific, expressing its own historical, sociological, theological, linguistic and philosophical orientation. Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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Encoding of Text Reuse in the Project Beta maṣāḥǝft by Daria Elagina

“…Text reuse, which consists in the implicit or explicit repetition of text, is attested in a variety of forms, including quotations, allusions, paraphrases, and cross-linguistic text reuse. The documentation of this practice contributes to the study of different aspects of the manuscript tradition, for example, to the impact and relative dating of texts, and history of their transmission. …”
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads” by Nicole Revel

“…Nicole Revel, Emeritus senior researcher at CNRS, Doctor Honoris causa (Humanities) Ateneo de Manila University, Linguist and anthropologist, works since 1970 in the Philippines. …”
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Louisa Paulin et Max Rouquette : reconnaissance littéraire, dissensions graphiques et rendez-vous manqués by Philippe Gardy

“…But very quickly this mutual recognition turns short: engaged the one and the other in fights for the Occitan language which did not borrow exactly the same intellectual weapons and, initially, linguistic, it followed a chain of misunderstandings of which several correspondences help to measure the origin and the developments. …”
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A Transfer of Language and Culture: German Bread and Pastries and Their Names in Kosovo by Hamiti Vjosa, Jusufi Lumnije

“…This article examines the linguistic and cultural influence of German bread culture in Kosovo, where bread holds significant meaning as a symbol of hospitality and community. …”
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Het boek Prediker: een verrassende en uitdagende stem in de Bijbel by H. Debel

“…Against the background of the church fathers’ christological interpretation of the book (1), emphasis is put on the need to situate and interpret the book in its original historical context (2), which has been identified — on account of its Late Biblical Hebrew linguistic profile – as the fourth or third century BCE. …”
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Towards the translation of multilingual Bible study guides for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Southern Africa by J. A. Naudé, G. Gelderbloem

“…The specific aims of the article include: to discover, by means of an empirical study, whether the translations are meeting the cultural and linguistic needs of the target audience and to determine their views on the current Bible Study Guides; to explore the future of translation in a multilingual, democratic South Africa; to ascertain by means of a survey the difficulties the translators face and to suggest improvements; to establish, by analysis, how the text can be translated functionally; and to establish the effect of globalisation and whether it would be possible to localise the source texts. …”
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"Bevrydende waarheid?" Nagedink oor die aard van gereformeerde belydenis by D. J. Smit

“…A second section discusses some aspects of the nature of Reformed confession by focusing on issues related to the authority of confessional documents — their relation to Scripture, their historical, contextual and linguistic nature, the fact that they are human products and therefore fallible, as well as the need for ongoing confession and the possibility of new situations calling for new forms of confession. …”
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Bibliographic and printing activities of the central library of the Academy of Sciences Lit. SSR in 1946-1985 by Adolfas Ivaškevičius

“…At the beginning of the sixties and afterwards, much attention was paid to the publishing of retrospective bibliographical indices. Linguistic, historic, geologic, and materials from other sciences were included. …”
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Influence of Social Class and Identity on The Characters in the Novel the Great Gatsby. by Nowamukama, Blessing

“…The study recommended that teachers should provide learners with sufficient awareness of the stylistics theories as well as the applied linguistic theories…”
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Influence of Social Class and Identity on the Characters in the Novel the Great Gatsby. by Nowamukama, Blessing

“…The study recommended that teachers should provide learners with sufficient awareness of the stylistics theories as well as the applied linguistic theories.…”
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A Pragmatic Approach to Rhetorical Technique of "Exaggeration" Based on Grice’s "Cooperative Principle" by Hassan Rahmani, Qasem Mokhtari, Mohammad Jorfi, Ebrahim Anari Bozchlooi, Mahmoud Shahbazi

“…Exaggeration is among the most prominent rhetorical techniques that has long been of significant interest to linguists and scholars, specifically under the discipline of Badi (rhetorical embellishment). …”
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Reproductive health literacy scale: a tool to measure the effectiveness of health literacy training by Maha Rauf, Zahra Goliaei, Lana Machta, Jenny Chang, Heike Thiel de Bocanegra

“…This study aims to adapt a culturally and linguistically appropriate survey that helps address this gap. …”
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Dephrasal adjectives in Polish – A case of syntax-inside-morphology by Joanna Kolbusz-Buda

“…In what follows, we want to argue that Polish dephrasal adjectives should be recognised as a case of morphology-syntax interplay on a par with the already attested cross-linguistic material. The phrasal character of the Polish data to be discussed in this study is so strong that researching this sui generis type of derivation seems not only a valid linguistic undertaking but also one with important implications. …”
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Excerpts from The Freedom Fight: A Novel of Resistance and Freedom. by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Undoubtedly, its depiction of slavery and resistance makes it unrivalled as an eloquent marker of a historical and linguistic age gone by. Secondly, it joins the ranks of the works of only two other leading contemporary Yorùbá writers, whose attention to language make them the remaining literary and linguistic purists of the previous generation of Yorùbá writers. …”
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