In this paper, we discuss turn design as a locus of intersubjectivity. We focus on two types of directives in Finnish interactions, turns formatted with second-person imperative and turns that contain zero person. Neither ...

This paper aims to provide a foundation for studying the interplay between emoji and linguistic (natural language) expressions; it does so by proposing a formal semantic classification of emoji- text combinations, focusing ...

Abstract Raising a child is a challenging venture, regardless of where one lives in the world. Most children are raised in their families; however, many states have welfare services if the child’s well-being is at stake. ...

The Scandinavian languages employ an unusual device for expressing distance distributivity: they make use of prenominal distributive possessors. These distributive elements appear, at least historically, to be composed of ...

Abstract A series of recent studies have shown that the once-assumed cognitive advantage of bilingualism finds little support in the evidence available to date. Surprisingly, however, the view that bilingualism incurs ...

Aim: This study investigates how simultaneous bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events in their two languages, which have different and partly conflicting language-specific conceptualization ...

In many Nordic varieties, a perfect participle or supine form occurs in the complement of a verb which otherwise takes an infinitive, as in (1) below (see e.g. Thráinsson et al. 2004: 234–236).[1] This is typically only ...

This article examines the affective dimension of the linguistic repertoire of multilingual families. Specifically, resulting from a three-year ethnographic project in Norway, this study sets out to better understand the ...

Vinteren/våren 2012 opplevde jeg – en til da frisk kvinne på 43 år – at tunga ikke lystret som før når jeg snakket. Jeg begynte å snuble i konsonantforbindelsene. Ord jeg var vant til å si mange ganger daglig, krevde gradvis ...