This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more
This book is the result of intensive and continued discussions about the social role of language and its conceptualisations in societies other than Northern (European-American) ones. Language as a means of expressing as well as evoking both interiority and community has been in the focus of these… read more
This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art… read more
This book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The… read more
The names by which luxury items are marketed are often interpreted as names that trigger forms of mimesis. By considering the connections made through naming, products such as perfumes seem to be powerful metaphors for a particular lifestyle, wealth, and specific identity constructions, thereby… read more
This contribution examines the metapragmatics of the ‘noisy’ voice: how voice performance that does not include the utterance of words is evaluated and discussed by different audiences and authors. Secrecy as being expressed through and by the transcendental voice is one aspect of these… read more
Even though terminologies for emotions and interior states can be, in principle in any given field context, elicited and listed as linguistic data, these extracted terminologies are not necessarily used. Everyday communication practices, storytelling and historical narration can be decidedly void… read more
This contribution treats the number marking of nouns, numerals and the way these are used in counting in Luwo. This Western Nilotic language of South Sudan exhibits interesting patterns in the pluralisation of nouns, which have to do with the grammatical marking of nominal aspect. Moreover, Luwo… read more
Central Jukunoid languages (East Benue-Congo, Nigeria) such as Hone or Wapan exhibit
rich and complex systems of negation. There are different strategies depending on
whether negation of the indicative or subjunctive mood of the verb is expressed, or
whether an object or a noun phrase is… read more
Hone is a Jukun language of Nigeria which exhibits patterns of participant coding that are characteristic for a linguistic area which encompasses Chadic, Plateau, Adamawa and Jukunoid languages. But instead of displaying the typical intransitive copy pronoun constructions that are often found in… read more
