This thesis focuses on proving the potential of web-based collaborative output processing for the development of communication with a focus on form in second language learning. A comparison between teachers’ and learners’ ...

The status and use of English in the countries of the expanding circle has been of significant interest in recent years (Kachru 1992, Knapp and Meierkord 2002, Seidlhofer and Widdowson 2009, and many others). The use of ...

In this paper, we present interdisciplinary work of linguists and literary scholars on the emergence of implicatures in fictional, here particularly lyrical texts. By systematically analysing a small corpus of poems by ...

The dissertation compares two theories on the obligatory insertion of presupposition triggers. The first theory is based on a principle 'Maximize Presupposition' (Heim 1991), the second theory is based on obligatory ...