Niclas Burenhult

TL;DR: It is shown that Jahai speakers find it as easy to name odors as colors, whereas English speakers struggle with odor naming, showing that the long-held assumption that people are bad at naming smells is not universally true.

TL;DR: The authors explored the linguistic categories of landscape terms and place names in nine genetically, typologically and geographically diverse languages, drawing on data from first-hand fieldwork, and pointed out the reasons why the domain of landscape is of central interest to the language sciences and beyond, and outlined some of the major patterns that emerge from the cross-linguistic comparison which the papers invite.

TL;DR: The authors used a qualitative approach to individual examples of linguistic switch among three second language teachers of French in Sweden, although highly preliminary, attempts to highlight and explain some of the features of code-switching in the foreign language classroom.

TL;DR: The Jahai ideology revolves around a complex set of beliefs which structures the human relationship with the supernatural as discussed by the authors, and olfaction also receives special attention in the Jahai language.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land, and the potential value to indigenous communities involved in this type of research.