Volume 16 Issue 1

This special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences includes four peer-reviewed articles which have been selected from those presented at the 1st International Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group Conference (SFLIG 2021) and successfully ...

Describing language: Form and functionRuqaiya Hasan. Edited by Jonathan J. Webster and Carmel CloranSheffield: Equinox, 2019. 371pp.

Essays that have an expounding or explaining nature are a common type of text in many academic disciplines such as business. While their primary function is to explain the causes or consequences of a phenomenon, they also serve to illustrate the writer’s ...

In a time of globalisation, the teaching of intercultural understanding has become one of the essential components of teaching curriculum in classrooms around the world. Among various materials for teaching intercultural understanding, multicultural ...

Written engineering discourse is embedded in its social context and is sensitive to the relationship between an engineer and their client. In order for engineering writers to be able to frame their evidence as part of a convincing argument, they require a ...

Migration remains a recurring yet controversial subject in today’s society. Previous research on press discourse has predominantly focused on migration metaphors from their verbal construction (Santa Ana, 1999; O’Brien, 2003) and the interplay with the ...