Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Part I. Grammaticalization
4. Distal aspects in Bantu languages 3
5. From temporal to conditional 23
6. Then — adverbial pro-form or inference particle? 51
7. The polysemy of the Swedish verb komma ‘come’ 75
8. Part II. Metaphor in contrast
9. Studying metaphors using a multilingual corpus 109
10. Cross-language metaphors 125
11. A contrastive cognitive perspective on Malay and English figurative language 141
12. Metaphorical expressions in English and Spanish stock market journalistic texts 159
13. Part III. Cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts
14. Directions of regulation in speech act theory 183
15. On Japanese ne and Chinese ba 197
16. ‘I am asking for a pen’ 213
17. Cultural scripts for French and Romanian thanking behaviour 237
18. Sociocultural variation in native and interlanguage complaints 251
19. A cross-cultural study of requests 263
20. Questions as indirect requests in Russian and Czech 277
21. The language of love in Melanesia 291
22. Everyday rituals in Polish and English 331
23. A question of time? Question types and speech act shifts from a historical-contrastive perspective 345
24. The contrasts between contrasters 373
25. Part IV. The semantics/pragmatics boundary: Theory and applications
26. Cross-linguistic implementations of specificity 405
27. The semantics–pragmatics interface 423
28. On translating ‘What is said’ 441
29. Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory 463
30. Language index 477
31. Name index 481
32. Subject index 483
33. Contents of Volume 1 489