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Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Linguistic Replacement in the Movies

Bleichenbacher, Lukas

In: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2008, vol. 44, no. 2, p. 179-196

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Children aged 2

DITTMAR, MIRIAM ; ABBOT-SMITH, KIRSTEN ; LIEVEN, ELENA ; TOMASELLO, MICHAEL

In: Journal of Child Language, 2011, vol. 38, no. 5, p. 1109-1123

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Express-ability in ELF communication

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela

In: Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 2013, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 101-122

Université de Fribourg

Googling Toubon : Testing the effects of institutional French language purism

Berthele, Raphael

In: Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes. Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics

This study investigates the impact of French corpus planning efforts in two semantic domains, telecommunication and sport. Lists of Anglicisms and their French counterparts pertaining to these two domains are used in a corpus study using the Google Books corpus. A method to explore this corpus diachronically is proposed, and analyses assessing the odds of encountering the ‘official’ French...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Destination online travel reviews : An argumentative and textual genre perspective

De Ascaniis, Silvia ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM006.

Information and communication practices relating to tourism, as they occur in the frame of the so-called web 2.0, constitute a peculiar context where communicative interactions assume specific features. Prospective tourists face several challenges when making travel decisions because of the very nature of tourism products, which are intangible and perishable, and because of the extraordinary...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Interpretation of psychological concepts in Wittgenstein

Bova, Antonio

In: Language and World : proceedings of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, 2009, p. 64-65

This paper focuses on Wittgenstein's notion of psychological concepts. According to the Austrian philosopher, it is only the Grammar to provide the means in order to properly interpret the psychological concepts, and the description of internals mental states is reduced to the description of the use of words. Psychological facts and phenomena are thus replaced with the notion of psychological...