This paper explores the potential for systematic scrutiny of the language of top management to reveal signals of … possible deceptive conduct. The language used in letters signed by Ramalinga Raju, Chair of the Indian multi-national company … Satyam, are analysed using a multi-method quantitative approach. We explore the language in Raju’s annual report letters from …

domains of knowledge production. From its initial emergence within the field of linguistics in the early 1990s, it has meant … different things to different scholars, so to date lacks a coherent self definition. Some scholars interpret ecolinguistics to … of language; while others suggest it deals with declining linguistic diversity, broadly. Dr. Arran Stibbe, the convener …

The language competition model of Viviane de Oliveira et al. is modified by associating with each language a string of … 32 bits. Whenever a language changes in this Viviane model, also one randomly selected bit is flipped. If then only …

The paper investigates the quantitative distribution of language types across languages of the world. The studies are … base, and the World Atlas of Language Structures. The main finding is that a surprisingly large and varied collection of …