University of Maribor

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Maribor*

Shi, Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu 2026 Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach

Keywords: unsolicited advice | Chinese New Year celebrations | Douyin (TikTok) | ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Mačutek, Ján, Emmerich Kelih, Michaela Koščová & Mirjam Sepesy Maučec 2025 Noun declension in Slavic languages: Animacy has a stronger influence than gender

Keywords: Slavic languages | noun declension | animacy | gender | case | frequency

In: Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek & Aris Xanthos (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 370] pp. 27–42

Han, Dan, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Complaining in historical Chinese criminal trials

Keywords: Complain | interaction | late imperial Chinese criminal trials | ritual | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3 pp. 438–466 | article

Liu, Fengguang, Li Zhang, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective

Keywords: flattery | historical Chinese | interaction ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorović, Matjaž Klemenčič, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič & Katja Plemenitaš 2024 Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

Keywords: diplomatic mediation | negotiation | power | speech acts | Yugoslavia

Journal of Language and Politics 24:5 pp. 713–740 | article | open access

Chen, Jiejun, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2024 Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts: A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry

Keywords: “face”-related expressions | historical contrastive analysis | Mandarin | Minnan | Peking Opera | Teochew Opera

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:2 pp. 175–205 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2023 Review of Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization by Winnie Chor (2018)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2 pp. 332–337 | book review | open access

Antloga, Špela 2023 Review of Figuring out Figuration: A Cognitive Linguistic Account by M. S. Peña-Cervel & F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (2022)

Metaphor and the Social World 13:2 pp. 316–322 | book review

Vid, Natalia Kaloh 2023 Notes in English retranslations of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita : Function, meaning, and significance

Keywords: retranslation | paratext | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | retraduction | paratexte | Mikhail Boulgakov | Le Maître et Marguerite

Babel 69:6 pp. 797–821 | article

Verdonik, Darinka 2022 Annotating dialogue acts in speech data: Problematic issues and basic dialogue act categories

Keywords: speech act | communicative function | metadiscourse | dialogue tagset | corpus pragmatics

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:2 pp. 144–171 | article

Mlakar, Izidor, Matej Rojc, Simona Majhenič & Darinka Verdonik 2021 Discourse markers in relation to non-verbal behavior: How do speech and body language correlate?

Keywords: multimodal analysis | multimodal discourse | social interaction | metadiscourse | non-verbal behavior

Gesture 20:1 pp. 103–134 | article

Kučiš, Vlasta & Natalia Kaloh Vid 2021 Lexical and cultural choices in Slovene translations of German and English car slogans

Keywords: functional theories | skopos | advertising slogan | car | figurative language | théorie fonctionnelle | skopos | slogans publicitaires | industrie automobile | langage figuré

Babel 67:1 pp. 54–74 | article

Kaloh Vid, Natalia 2021 Prefaces in Soviet translations of Robert Burns’s poetry as ideological tools

Keywords: preface | ideology | manipulation | translation | Robert Burns

Target 34:2 pp. 251–277 | article

Orthaber, Sara 2020 

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:2 pp. 351–355 | book review

Márquez Reiter, Rosina & Sara Orthaber 2020 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group

Keywords: (im)politeness | moral indignation | social media | relocalisation

In: (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 107] pp. 37–65

Kučiš, Vlasta 2019 Jozef Štefčík. Einblicke in das Gerichtsdolmetschen in der Slowakei und seine methodisch-didaktischen Ansätze

Babel 65:1 pp. 149–152 | book review

Orthaber, Sara & Rosina Márquez Reiter 2018 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive

Keywords: calls for information | epistemic mismatch | face | impoliteness | institutional asymmetries | overt other-initiated repair

In: The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt & Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 96] pp. 135–160

Kučiš, Vlasta & Simona Majhenič 2018 Cultural and stress-related manifestations of political controversial language in the European Parliament from the view of interpreters

Keywords: European Parliament | controversial statements | interpreters | stress | transcultural communication | Parlement européen | déclarations controversées | interprètes | stress | communication transculturelle

Babel 64:1 pp. 33–62 | article

Márquez Reiter, Rosina & Sara Orthaber 2019 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group

Keywords: (im)politeness | moral indignation | social media | relocalisation

Internet Pragmatics 1:2 pp. 242–271 | article

Kučiš, Vlasta & Natalia Kaloh Vid 2017 Baer (2015). Translation and the making of modern Russian literature

Babel 63:1 pp. 143–146 | book review

Trupej, Janko 2017 Representations of black people in the Slovenian translations of Karl May’s novels: A case study

Keywords: racism | black people | literary translation | Karl May | Winnetou | Old Surehand | Der Schatz im Silbersee | shifts | censorship | ideology | racisme | Noirs | traduction littéraire | Karl May | Winnetou | Old Surehand | Le Trésor du lac d'argent | variations | censure | idéologie

FORUM 15:1 pp. 123–141 | article

Trupej, Janko 2017 Strategies for translating racist discourse about African-Americans into Slovenian

Keywords: racist discourse | African-Americans | translation | Slovenia | ideological interventions | discours raciste | Afro-Américains | traduction | Slovénie | interventions idéologiques

Babel 63:3 pp. 322–342 | article

Orthaber, Sara & Rosina Márquez Reiter 2016 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive

Keywords: calls for information | institutional asymmetries | impoliteness | epistemic mismatch | overt other-initiated repair | face

Pragmatics and Society 7:4 pp. 638–663 | article

Verdonik, Darinka 2016 Internal variety in the use of Slovene general extenders in different spoken discourse settings

Keywords: general extenders | spoken genre | speech variability | vague expression

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:4 pp. 445–468 | article

Terzan Kopecky, Carmen 2008 Indefiniteness and imperfectivity as micro-grammatical contexts of epistemicity in German-Slovene translations

In: Modality–Aspect Interfaces: Implications and typological solutions, Abraham, Werner & Elisabeth Leiss (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 79] pp. 119–145

Miščević, Nenad 1995 Relativism-pragmatism and the goals of cognition

Pragmatics & Cognition 3:1 pp. 111–131 | discussion

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.