TL;DR: The authors discuss a number of specific grammatical phenomena which support the view that grammatical regularities arise because of certain strategies people habitually use in negotiating what they have to say with their hearers, in terms of what the hearer is likely to know or be able to identify, what needs to be highlighted or presented as newsworthy, what makes a good story, and so forth.

TL;DR: The authors briefly introduce some basic notions of cognitive grammar and discuss the importance of linguistic semantics of the way we constrain a conceived situation, and explore the reasons why the nature of the construals we impose are largely invisible to us.

TL;DR: The years of "middle-age" have received very little attention in the social sciences as mentioned in this paper, and two primary strains of research in the area are concerned with demonstrating the existence of a mid-life crisis, and the other aiming to demonstrate stability in midlife.

TL;DR: The authors developed a proposal for an anthropological study of communication, one based on a certain reading of Wittgenstein, which supplements work in various related areas of language inquiry and provides an orientation for explorations of language in non-human primates.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-linguistic quantification of demonstrative noun-determiners in an Eastern Algonquian language has been proposed to classify demonstrative markers as definite articles.

TL;DR: Saussure's views on linguistic geography are not-as the position of the chapter entitled "Linguistique geographique" in the Cours de linguistique generale might appear to suggest -a mere appendage to his proposals for the science of linguistics as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as mentioned in this paper states that the arbitrariness of linguistic categories is almost as much a given as that of individual linguistic signs, and one has only to consider the language-specificity of such familiar constructs such as the phoneme, gender or the notion of subject to be reminded of this fact.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study aimed at identifying foreign loanwords used in Jordanian daily newspapers in the body and advertisement/announcement sections, and investigating the degree to which they varied in scope and frequency.

TL;DR: This paper showed that there are several languages between which the first person is not perfectly translatable, lacking one or more of the full set of possible indexical functions, and alternative gender indexings by third person singular pronouns are also illustrated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the positivists' and pluralist historians' claims about human communication, interpretation, authorial intention, and representation, and conclude that they are untenable.

TL;DR: In this paper, auteur analyse les regles qui regissent la position des constituants en fonction de la nature of the phrase (declarative, imperative,..., positive ou negative) dans different dialectes gallois.

TL;DR: In this paper, auteur cherche distinguer dans les formes premieres de la langue ecrite ce qui revient a la language orale and au dialecte.

TL;DR: A travers l'etude d'une œuvre importante de la litterature en vieux-Gallois, l'auteur analyse les syllabes mesotomiques, les regles metriques and phonetiques de la langue as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper propose an etude diachronique de la poesie galloise and des different theories which entourent sa transmission orale et ecrite, basees sur l'analyse de l'œuvre du poete Aneirin.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rapide retrospective des auteurs qui se sont interesses a la litterature galloise, l'auteur discute de l'interet de ce type d'etudes en linguistique.

TL;DR: The authors identify alternative modes in thinking about language and develop selected aspects of the proposed alternatives, which are "alternatives" to those conceptions of language which take it to be a discrete object and one that can be isolated from other aspects of humanity.