Topics in linguistics – ISSUE 2: Politeness and Interaction 2

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 2:

• Richard Repka - Communication Models and their Use in Various Theories of Language
• Josef Schmied - Academic Interaction: Adapting Complexity and Coherence to the Readership
• Alena Kačmárová - Politeness Issues from a Slovak Speaker’s Perspective (When in Rome…, Nitra 2003, Revisited)
• Edita Hornáčková Klapicová - Politeneness in Advertising
• Jana Leciánová - FTAs in U.S. TV Commercials on Cosmetic Products
• Klaudia Valdmanová - Politeness in Nursing Discourse
• Katarína Nemčoková - Advertising Slogans in Pragmatic References
• Renata Pípalová - Approaches to the Textual Theme
• Lucia Štofanová - The Debatable Status of U.S. Presidential Debates (Controversy over the Memoranda of Understanding)
• Silvie Válková - Something Nice to Say… (Compliments in English and Czech)
• Eva Pavlíčková - The Performative Verb in Legal Texts
• Magda Rázusová - Specific Nature of Question-answer Exchanges of Television Political Interview in English
• Pavlína Saldová - Politeness Universals in an Interview
• Tetyana Tkachuk - Turn-taking Management During Cross-Examination: Lay People as Cross-Examiners