## HERMES

Journal of Language and Communication Studies

## Scientifi  c Committee

Barbara Ahrens John Humbley Francesca Bargiela Arnt Lykke Jakobsen, Mirjaliisa Charles Pierre Lerat Andrew Chesterman Valeria Molnár Birgitta Englund Dimitrova Catherine Nickerson Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Henning Nølke Pedro Fuertes Olivera Gina Poncini Daniel Gile Daniel Prinsloo Maurizio Gotti Annely Rothkegel Susanne Göpferich Klaus Schubert Stefan Habscheid Martin Stegu

Hermogenes: I should like to know about Hermes.

I should imagine that the name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifi  es that he is the interpreter, or messenger, or thief, or liar, or bargainer; all that

(Platon, Kratylos)

Socrates: sort of thing has a great deal to do with language.

## HERMES

Journal of Language and Communication Studies

39 - 2007

EDITORIAL BOARD Henning Bergenholtz (Editor-in-Chief) & Wolfgang Koch Loránd-Levente Pálfi   (Theme Editor)

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Helle V. Dam, Jan Engberg, Poul Erik Jørgensen,

Kirsten Wølch Rasmussen

PUBLISHED BY

Department of Language and Business Communication

Handelshøjskolen, Aarhus Universitet

Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus

http://hermes.asb.dk

## © HERMES 2007

HERMES er sat med Times Laserprint af Marie-France Pors og trykt hos Werks Offset A/S, Århus.

Trykt med støtte fra Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus.

Alle rettigheder forbeholdes. Genoptryk af artikler kun med redaktionens tilladelse.

ISSN 0904-1699

## Contents

| Hermes in the past and in the future (Henning Bergenholtz& Wolfgang Koch) ..........................................................................   |   7 |
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| Editor's Preface (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) .....................................                                                                          |  11 |
| Symbol Key (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) ...........................................                                                                          |  13 |
| The Distribution of Languages (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) ..............                                                                                    |  15 |
| Thematic Sections (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) ..................................                                                                            |  17 |
| Alfabetical Table of Contents (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) .................                                                                                 |  19 |
| Dansk register (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) .........................................                                                                        |  71 |
| English Index (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) ….....................................                                                                            | 143 |
| Deutsches Register (Loránd-Levente Pálfi) .................................                                                                            | 227 |
| Registre français (Anne Bøggild Bennekou) .................................259                                                                         |     |
| Registro español (José Augusto Marín Quico) .............................265                                                                           |     |