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Expressing Friendship in Letters: Conventionality and Sincerity in the Multilingual Correspondence of Nineteenth-Century Catholic Churchmen
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De Toni, Francesco – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
The relationship between the polite and conventional nature of friendly language and the sincerity of the writer's feelings is a central topic in linguistic and historical research on friendship in epistolary communication. This relationship can be understood in the context of the emotional values and conventionalised emotional practices that…
Descriptors: Authors, Friendship, Emotional Response, Language Usage
Attitudes towards English in Norway: A Corpus-Based Study of Attitudinal Expressions in Newspaper Discourse
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Graedler, Anne-Line – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This article explores some dimensions of how the role of the English language in Norway has been discursively constructed in newspapers during recent years, based on the analysis of data from the five-year period 2008-2012. The analysis is conducted using a specialised corpus containing 3,743 newspaper articles which were subjected to corpus-based…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Negative Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries