Kalba ir kontekstai = Language in different contexts : mokslo darbai ; Language in different contexts
Articles in this volume are grouped under four headings: 1) The Word in Context, 2) Text and Pragmatics, 3) Linguistic and Cultural Contacts, 4) Foreign Language Teaching. Articles under the heading "The Word in Context" explore English, German, Polish idioms; multimodal meanings; expression of negation; corpus-based contrastive analysis of syntactic constructions and linguistic units in Lithuanian, German and English; linguistic aspects of advertisements; characteristics of Church Slavonic adjectives, etc. Articles in the section entitled "Text and Pragmatics" present insights into translation of taboo words from English into Lithuanian; hedging in political discourse; epistemic modality; syntactic compression; nounal compounds in English and Lithuanian; face-saving and face-threatening acts in art reviews, etc. Articles under the heading "Linguistic and Cultural Contacts" deal with convergence and divergence in europeisms; bloodlands fiction; metaphors in East poetry translations; national identity; politeness and cooperation principles in communication; disphemisms in intercultural communication; intertextuality in modern prose, etc. Articles in the section "Foreign Language Teaching" explore issues such as digital learning environments; factors of students' learning motivation; integration of Erasmus students into Lithuanian culture; acquisition of Latvian as foreign language; distant foreign language learning; development of students' cultural awareness; topical issues of English and German maturity examinations, etc.