This book develops a theory of the interaction of phonological tone with segmental quality. Current phonological theory provides no formal mechanism that would relate tone to sonority. In fact, some authors explicitly deny ...

The volume consists of seven papers, each focusing on a selected aspect of East-Asian and Central-European (or more generally Western) encounters, either in more general terms of contact between heterogeneous cultural ...

Translating titles is one of the most complex problems that translation researchers (primarily those working in a literary field) may encounter. For many reasons, which I outline in the introduction to the present paper, ...

The paper examines the main uses and the symbolic significance of the Chinese cultural keyword rènao. Often rendered in English with its literal gloss of ‘hot and noisy’, it has been viewed by both Chinese and Western ...

The article focuses on new developments in Meiji literature in response to the tension existing between the spoken and the written narrative styles. It points to the tradition of gesaku bungku popular fiction, the influence ...

The term intercultural communication (ICC, not explicitly distinguished in this paper from the concept of cross-cultural communication) is commonly used to refer to the instances of actual communication acts performed in ...

The study presents an analysis of Polish students’ written commentaries on their oral interactions with their Chinese project partners. Students from two universities, in Poland and in China, communicated online, mainly ...

In the contemporary world, individuals and communities from different cultures communicate with their local and international partners through virtual space nearly as often as they speak across their desktops, thereby ...

This paper provides a critical review of Boroditsky and her collaborators’ cross-linguistic empirical research on spatio-temporal association in mental conceptualization, to see if it is possible to render the actual ...