SÉRIE “Filologické vědy”

Open access 2026

Synchronic re grammaticalization: The translation of modal adjuncts in Chinese government regulatory academic discourse

Although considerable research has been devoted to the translation of modality from Chinese into English, existing studies have focused predominantly on individual modal lexical items or localized translation phenomena, with relatively limited attention to the systemic transformation mechanisms of modal adjuncts within...

Zhu-Yang Liu · International Journal of Eng... · 0 citations

Review Aug 2026

The Significance of Personal Deictics in the Arabic Language

This study rigorously examines the significance of personal deictics in Arabic from an integrated semantic–pragmatic perspective, using Ziyārat Wārith as an analytical case study. It proceeds from the central hypothesis that personal deictics—particularly pronouns and vocative forms—extend far beyond a merely neutral r...

Nada Sami Naser · Natural Resources for Human... · 0 citations

2026

FROM SPONTANEOUS SPEECH TO FOLKLORE TEXT: MARKERS OF NARRATIVIZATION IN ORAL NARRATIVE

The article examines the problem of distinguishing between traditional and “one-off” texts, a distinction that has gained relevance due to the expansion of folklore studies’ scope to include texts featuring spontaneous speech. The research focuses on mythological narratives, which occupy an intermediate position betwee...

Viсtoria A. Chervaneva · RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literar... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

From formulaic collective address to plural pronoun

This paper examines a little-known composite second-person plural pronoun that has received no systematic attention in the historical-linguistic literature to date: among(st)-you . Drawing on a broad range of textual sources, we first map the geographical distribution of this pronoun across the anglophone world...

Bart Jacobs, S. Goyette, Mikael Parkvall · English World-Wide. A Journa... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

‘Actually’ in translation: The case of English and Slovak

This pilot study examines how the English adverb actually is rendered in Slovak translation, drawing on a corpus of literary texts and their translations. As a multifunctional item, actually performs a range of syntactic and pragmatic functions in context, most notably those of emphasizer and disjunct. The analysis dra...

Zuzana Knižková · Studies About Languages · 0 citations

Aug 2026

SUBJECTIVITY AND POSITIONING STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK DISCOURSE: A CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATIC STUDY

This article investigates the linguistic-pragmatic nature of subjectivity and the positioning strategies through which speakers of English and Uzbek encode stance, evaluation, and epistemic commitment in discourse. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of subjectification (Traugott, 1989; Langacker, 1990) and stance/p...

Kh Kodirov · “ADVANCED JOURNAL OF UNIVERS... · 0 citations