ISSN: 1857-4149

Speech and Context

International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science

Aims and Scope

Speech and Context International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science publishes original articles on the following topics:

overview of signs, speech and communication: overview of sign, overview of speech, speech aspects, overview of communication and speech act, sense and signification in communication, intention in communication, speech intelligibility;
types of sign, speech and interactional mechanisms in communication (types of sign: icon, index, symbol);
types of speech and interactional mechanisms in communication: speech act in everyday communication, mimic and gestures in communication, language for specific purposes, sense and signification in media communication, audio-visual language/pictorial language, language of music/language of dance, speech in institutional area, verbal language in cultural context, languages and communication within the European community;
(literary) language and social conditioning: ideology and language identity, language influences, morals and literary speech, collective mentality and literary image, (auto)biographic writings, between individual and social, voices, texts, reprezentation);
language, context, translation: role of context in translation, types of translation; languages and literatures teaching and studying.

We aim to bring important works to a wide international audience. The research presented must transcend the limits of case studies. Both experimental and theoretical studies are accepted.

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