One of the goals of LINDAT/CLARIN Centre for Language Research Infrastructure is to provide technical background to institutions or researchers who wants to share their tools and data used for research in linguistics or related research fields. The digital repository is built on a highly customised DSpace platform. and LM2010013 - FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND YOUTH OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
One of the goals of LINDAT/CLARIN Centre for Language Research Infrastructure is to provide technical background to institutions or researchers who wants to share their tools and data used for research in linguistics or related research fields. The digital repository is built on a highly customised DSpace platform. and LM2010013 - FULLY SUPPORTED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SPORTS AND YOUTH OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
The aim of the article is to sum up the most frequent lexical means used by Polish young generation to convince the addressee about the fact that the reported information is true and meant seriously as truthfulness still seems to be a highly valued featuare of our everyday verbal communication. Some 170 students were asked to answer the question What expressions do you use to emphasize your truthfulness? The author analyses the collected material and - providing that in a specific speech act on pragmatic function becomes dominant - isolates categories of assertives, directives, commissives and expressives, and oaths, gives their description and frequency.
This article analyzes and evaluates the book Language Management in Contact Situations: Perspectives from Three Continents (Nekvapil - Sherman, 2009a). The first section summarizes the basic features of Language Management Theory (LMT) itself. The second section reviews a selection of the individual chapters, devoted to, for example, internet discussions between native English speakers concerning the problems of acquiring and using Czech or meetings between Japanese students and various non-native speakers of Japanese. In the discussion section, the author observes that there are differences between the authors working with LMT, above all regarding whether they define the norms guiding speakers in individual interactions, as well as the degree to which they analyze the (linguistic) behavior of speakers as bound to specific interactions. The book is evaluated as thought-provoking given its emphasis of on the inseparability of linguistic behavior and behavior-toward-language and on the processual character of language management, and can thus serve as inspiration for research on the Czech language situation as a multilingual one., Jiří Homoláč., and Obsahuje seznam literatury