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Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals ...
Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
There are significant cross-cultural differences in the way compliments and refusals are made and responded to. The investigation of these speech acts touches on some interesting issues for pragmatic theory: the relation ...
Using Nigerian English in an international academic setting
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)
This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are ...
Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn ...
Die kleine House-Apotheke: Reception of the American, German and Polish Gregory House and Varied Translations of the Pronoun you
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
Two audiovisual translations of the American hit medical drama, House M.D., German dubbing and Polish voiceover, and the analysis of translation strategies of the pronominal form of address you are the point of departure ...
What is Said and Indirect Speech Reports
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
In their Insensitive Semantics (2005) Cappelen and Lepore argue for the Controversial Aspect (CA) which is a part of their Speech Act Pluralism and which says that speakers don’t have privileged access to what they say. ...
Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)
Phonetics Learning Anxiety – Results of a Preliminary Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)
The Phonetics Learning Anxiety Scale, a 44-item questionnaire based on a 6-point Likert scale, designed for the purpose of the research sheds light on the nature of this peculiar type of apprehension experienced by advanced ...
Immediate and Distracted Imitation in Second-Language Speech: Unreleased Plosives in English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)
The paper investigates immediate and distracted imitation in second-language speech using unreleased plosives. Unreleased plosives are fairly frequently found in English sequences of two stops. Polish, on the other hand, ...
Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-05-04)
On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or ...