Languages in Contrast

Editorial
• Editors’ note
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Articles
• A corpus-based contrastive study of impersonal passives in Swedish and Dutch
  Annika Johansson & Gudrun Rawoens | pp. 2–26
• French and English lexical blends in contrast
  Vincent Renner | pp. 27–47
• Variable article use with acronyms and initialisms: A contrastive analysis of English, German and Italian
  Elena Callegaro, Simon Clematide, Marianne Hundt & Sara Wick | pp. 48–78
• A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun ('n) mens in Afrikaans: Compared to men and een mens in Dutch
  Daniël Van Olmen, Adri Breed & Ben Verhoeven | pp. 79–105
• Notions of “money” and “house” in the language consciousness of Russians and the Japanese
  Alexei D. Palkin | pp. 106–132
• Chinese rhetoric: Modality patterns and the question of indirection in written arguments
  Lorrita Yeung | pp. 133–161
Book reviews
• Thomas Egan & Hildegunn Dirdal. 2017. Cross-linguistic Correspondences. From Lexis to Genre
  Reviewed by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski | pp. 162–165
• Marlies Jansegers. 2017. Hacia un enfoque múltiple de la polisemia. Un estudio empírico del verbo multimodal “sentir” desde una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica
  Reviewed by Marta Albelda Marco | pp. 166–171

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