Topics in linguistics – ISSUE 4: Interface Between Pragmatics and Other Linguistic Disciplines 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 4:

• Implicatures in Discourse Space or Grice’s Rationality Reconsidered
• Metaphor in Translation
• “Words Must Be Our Force”: Exploring Modality Markers in Political Speeches
• Pragmatics (through) Corpora (in) Cultures: An Empirical Comparison of Academic Writing
• Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
• Conjunctive Adverbials in English Academic Prose – Their Features and Use by Men and Women Authors
• Naming Strategies in Newspaper Discourse: Means of Communicating Identity of the Participants to the Reader
• Syntactic Strategies in Written Discourse
• Acquiring Pragmatic Competence in a Foreign Language – Mastering Dispreferred Speech Acts
• Prevalent Approaches in Modern Brand Names and Preliminary Classification of Brands
• Expressing Imprecision in Research Article Introductions: Formal and Semantic Analysis
• Persuasive Features in Academic Writing
• The Illocutionary Force: Over-coding and Under-coding in advertising slogans
• Hinojosa’s Self-Translation of Dear Rafe into North-American Culture: Language Use as a Mirror of the Social Construction of the Chicano Identity
• The Function of Reported Language in the Discourse of Newspaper Reports
• Increasing Cultural Awareness Through the Development of Cultural Subcompetence