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Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah; Mampoi Irene Mabena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article offers a descriptive account of seven interjections, "eish", "yho", "tjo", "sho", "hayi", "hau", and "mxm", which are adopted from different local South African languages into South African English. It investigates the frequencies, orthography, syntactic position,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Pragmatics, English
Emma Portugal; Sean Nonnenmacher – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Through the analysis of materials such as online articles, blogs, and radio broadcasts, this paper investigates linguistic purism toward Russian and English loanwords in the understudied context of post-Soviet Armenia. Our analysis finds that public commentators categorize potential loanwords as "borrowings" ([foreign characters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, English, Linguistic Borrowing
Williams, Graham Trevor – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), at a point when Middle English was rapidly replacing Anglo-Norman as the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Verbs, English, Diachronic Linguistics
Writer Construction in English and German Popularized Academic Discourse: The Uses of "We" and "Wir"
Baumgarten, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
The present article investigates writer-reader interaction through the construction of writer and reader personae in English and German popular scientific writing by means of first person plural pronouns in subject position. Popular scientific writing only became firmly established as a German-language genre in the last quarter of the 20th century…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Linguistic Borrowing, Translation, Scientific Research