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Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
The most comprehensive reference work on Slavic languages ever published. It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the Slavic language family from its Indo-European origins to the present day, as well as consideration of the interaction of Slavic with other languages.
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Languages and Linguistics
The terminology of death varies in terms of register, i.e. literary and ‘official’ terms and ‘substandard’, colloquial and jargon terms, and in that there are terms that speak directly for death and dying, but as death is the prime taboo, talk about it is conducted mostly with metaphorical language. The colloquial terms seem to thrive with the formation of a large and varied range of expressions of death, often not of ‘panhellenic’ use but confined in place, genre, author or type of text. In any case, the resulting language of death is characterized by a profusion of expressive means.
Implicatures are non-logical inferences which testify to the discrepancy between what is strictly said and that may be conversationally conveyed. They are based on H.P. Grice’s (1975) proposal that ordinary conversations are regulated by a special set of rules governing conversation, which he calls the cooperative principle (CP) and comprises four maxims: quality, quantity, relation, and manner.
Palindromes belong to the playful and/or purposeful manipulations of linguistic means, i.e. individual letters (or sounds), words, phrases and sentence arrangement (in a mirror-image style) in such a way that the reading has a double direction, from left to right and vice versa. Greek palindromes are attested since Late Antiquity but their number rose during the medieval times serving various functions, mainly ‘para-poetic’ as appendices to other compositions, carrying special meanings or alluding to people, states or objects.