The purposes of the study are: 1) to compare Thai and English speakers’ degree of time specification, and 2) to compare their abilities in remembering temporal information and ordertinf the situations chronologically The Hypotheses are the degree of time specification in English travelogues written by native speakers of English is
Gender and sexuality are studied by scholars in various fields. In linguistics, the relationship between language and gender/sexuality is of interest in areas such as sociolinguistics, pragmatics, (critical) discourse studies, corpus linguistics and semiotic landscapes. Adopting various approaches, we explore how various linguistic elements in the Thai language contribute to
This chapter examines the construction of gender identity through linguistic means among kathoey, male-to-female transgenders in Thailand. It aims to illustrate how kathoey use self-reference terms, which are gendered in Thai, to position themselves in Thai society. Overall pattern of self-reference term use in an online dataset among kathoey and among women were compared. First-person
