Many studies have evaluated politeness strategies between speakers and hearers in general, but not many have investigated the politeness strategies in which a third person addressee is implicated in the utterances, especially ...

The American Southwest has experienced a drastic increase in its Hispanic population in roughly the past thirty years. This has accounted for a unique language contact situation between English on the one hand and Spanish ...

The research conducted is to establish the efficacy of the language planning on the Caribbean island of Aruba, where the spoken vernacular is Papiamento and the language of education is Dutch. The study looked at the ways ...

Political cartoons are a part of daily life, as they have their staple page in the newspaper every morning. Many of these cartoons are multimodal in nature, and require an understanding of both the visual and verbal ...

This thesis considers the linguistic consequences of contact between dialects. It begins by providing some information on factors that contribute to the process of dialect levelling. It then goes on to give a description ...