Enriching the view of path lexicalisation in satellite-framed languages: Ascending and descending Paths in Finnish, English, and translations between them Building a bridge between cognitive linguistics and translation studies, the presentation discusses Path lexicalisation patterns in ascending and descending motion in two non-related languages – Finnish and English and translations between them – considered to […]

Speech Acts in Multicultural Workplace Meetings: Institutional Roles, Meeting Purposes, and Pragmatic Realisation This article looks at how speech acts are used in multicultural workplace meetings where English is the common language in a Finnish company. It uses Speech Act Theory to study 2,569 speech acts that were manually identified from ten meetings, which together […]