This corpus-based study focuses on the frequency, distribution patterns and functional profile of the pragmatic marker žinai ‘you know’ in Lithuanian spoken discourse and fiction. The data for the study comes from interviews, spontaneous private conversations and a parallel corpus of English and… read more
The use of I and we in research writing has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful means to mark author stance, however there are substantial differences in personal pronoun preferences depending on the disciplinary and cultural background of the writer. This chapter investigates the use… read more
The paper deals with the existing potential of the grammatical realizations of evidentiality (so-called “passive evidentials”) in Lithuanian, which has been described theoretically in literature; however there are no studies that would attest to the frequency and patterns of actual use of this… read more
The paper investigates disciplinary, cultural and genre factors and their influence on citation in research writing. The study is based on literature and linguistics research articles written by Lithuanian and British researchers in their native languages as well as literature and linguistics BA… read more