oncentric: Studies in Linguistics

New Issue: Volume 43, Number 1

Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University

Concentric: Studies in Linguistics (Volume 43, Number 1) was released in May 2017.

There are five articles in this issue:

1. Yung-Hsiang Shawn Chang: The Influence of Dialect Information on the Perception of the Mandarin Alveolar-Retroflex Contrast

2. Pritha Chandra & Gurmeet Kaur: Differential Subject Marking and Person Licensing Condition 

3. Mei-hui Tsai: From Volition to Obligation: “Have you heard of diabetes?”—The Use of Perspective-Checking Questions in Creating Knowledge Needs in Taiwanese Health Education Talks for Elderly Lay People

4. Yen-Chen Hao: Chinese ESL Speakers’ Compliment Behavior in English and in Chinese

5. Svitlana Shurma: Soviet Conceptualization of Nasylstvo (Violence): Based on the Texts of the Ukrainian SSR Newspaper the Molod Ukraїny of 1960