Meaning Through Language Contrast

1. Grammaticalization; 2. Distal aspects in Bantu languages (by Nicolle, Steve); 3. From temporal to conditional: Italian qualora vs English whenever (by Visconti, Jacqueline); 4. Then - adverbial pro-form or inference particle?: A comparative study of English, Ewe, Hungarian, and Norwegian (by Fretheim, Thorstein); 5. The polysemy of the Swedish verb komma 'come': A view from translation corpora (by Viberg, Ake); 6. Metaphor in contrast; 7. Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus (by Wikberg, Kay); 8. Cross-language metaphors: Conceptual or pragmatic variation? (by Musolff, Andreas); 9. A contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative language (by Charteris-Black, Jonathan); 10. Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic texts (by Espunya, Anna); 11. Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts; 12. Directions of regulation in speech act theory (by Kubo, Susumu); 13. On Japanese ne and Chinese ba (by Hudson, Mutsuko Endo); 14. 'I am asking for a pen': Framing of requests in black South African English (by Kasanga, Luanga A.); 15. Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviour (by Van Hecke, Tine); 16. Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaints (by Geluykens, Ronald); 17. A cross-cultural study of requests: The case of British and Japanese undergraduates (by Fukushima, Saeko); 18. Questions as indirect requests in Russian and Czech (by Betsch, Michael); 19. The language of love in Melanesia: A study of positive emotions (by Bruce, Les); 20. Everyday rituals in Polish and English (by Jakubowska, Ewa); 21. A question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective: Some examples from Old Spanish and Middle English (by Jung, Verena); 22. The contrasts between contrasters: What discussion groups can tell us about discourse pragmatics (by Kivik, Piibi-Kai); 23. The semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications; 24. Cross-linguistic implementations of specificity (by Heusinger, Klaus von); 25. The semantics-pragmatics interface: The case of grounding (by Khalil, Esam N.); 26. On translating 'What is said': Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics (by Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M.); 27. Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory (by Behrens, Bergljot); 28. Language index; 29. Name index; 30. Subject index; 31. Contents of Volume 1