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The aim of the book is to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. The evidence seems to point, although inconclusively, to historical and sociolinguistic factors, some of which pertain to India as a whole, while others are unique to the Konkani-speaking regions.

English language --- Language and culture --- Konkani language --- Test of English as a Foreign Language. --- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) --- Concani language --- Komkani language --- Koṅkṇi language --- Indo-Aryan languages, Modern --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Konkani speakers. --- Examinations

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The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives - syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.

801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Pragmatics. --- Prepositions. --- Syntax. --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatique --- Semantics --- Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Sémasiologie --- Semantics. --- Prépositions --- Syntaxe --- Sémantique --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Syntax --- Prepositions --- Philosophy --- Auxiliaries --- Prepositional phrases --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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"The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of legal pragmatics. The four chapters in the first section are devoted to historical pragmatics and take a diachronic look at old courtroom records. Written legal language is also the focus of the four chapters in the next section, dealing with the pragmatics of modern legal writing. The chapters in the third section, devoted to modern legal language, touch upon both the discourse in the courtroom and in police investigation. Finally, the two chapters in the last section on legal discourse and multilingualism address a topic very relevant to the modern era of globalisation -- the position of legal discourse in multilingual contexts."--Provided by publisher.

Law --- Pragmatics --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Language, Legal --- Legal language --- Legal style --- Style, Legal --- Bill drafting --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Language --- Philosophy --- Sociolinguistics

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This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.

English language --- Language and languages --- Influence of English on foreign languages --- Influence on foreign languages. --- Foreign elements. --- Globalization. --- Globalization --- Influence on foreign languages --- Foreign elements --- Germanic languages