Topics in linguistics – ISSUE 1: Politeness and Interaction

Topics in linguistics is an international scientific magazine published by UKF in Slovakia and Its target readers are those who are interested in area of linguists and scientists of intercultural communication, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics.  There are several issues, each oriented on different aspect of linguistics.

 

List of topics included in Issue 1:

• Text and Real Language
• (Im)politeness in an American and Slovak Context: Constructing Identities and Calibrating to them in the Course of Simple Conversations
• Proximization: A Methodological Account of Legitimization Strategies in the Post-9/11 US Political Discourse
• The Dynamic-Semantic Scales within the Framework of Functional Sentence Perspective
• Structural and Cohesive Devices in Business Letters
• E-mail: A Bridge between Written and Spoken Mode & Strategy of Beginnings
• Navratilova Some Aspects of Politeness in Public Speaking
• Politeness Aspects of Question-Answer Sequences in Mediated Talk-in-Interaction (Radio Phone-ins)
• Subjectivity and Vagueness in Academic Texts: Scientific vs. Popular-Scientific English
• Some Pragmatic Aspects of the Process of Communication and their Relevance to Language Pedagogy
• Pre 9/11 Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush: Critical Discourse Analysis
• EUROSPEAK and ELF – English as a Current Global Lingua Franca
• The Janus-face of Politeness: Hidden Strategies Revealed in Problem Interviews in Health Communication
• Maxim Hedges in Political Discourse: A Contrastive Perspective
• Some Means of Politeness in English Face-to-face Conversation