Abstract In this article, we discuss some fundamental issues as well several unresolved questions of degree-based theories in contemporary linguistics from the perspective East Asian languages, with a view to pointing out directions for future research. We first focus on controversies surrounding studies comparative constructions literature, i.e., phrasal comparison vs. clausal comparison, indi...

The practice of labeling seems to allow children to make difficult relational similarity matches. Two experiments explore the cognitive processes of comparison and replacement that have been implicated in the beneficial effects of linguistic labeling. Since linguistic labels may be implicated in a number of these processes, our experiments used traditional non-linguistic labels (post-its) to pr...

As covert socio-cultural relations have significant effects on language, these norms are reflected in linguistic and generic structure of public death notices as a distinctive genre. This study intended to identify the different genres of death notices (e.g. memorial advertisements, obituaries, funeral announcements/posters, memorial cards, etc.) and to conduct a comparative genre analysis of m...