Research in Language: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 121-140 z 370
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English for European Communication and Tourism: Focus on Pragmatic Competence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)Pragmatic competence in L2 English is claimed here to be crucial for successful communication in a variety of communicative contexts across Europe. However, due to language background, cultural and identity differences ... -
English as a We-Code: form and Function of English in Facebook Status Updates of Non-Native Female and Male Users
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)The English language has featured markedly as a popular language of computer-mediated communication, and notably of Facebook posts, written not only by native or second language speakers, but also users of English as a ... -
“Finishing One Big Adventure in Order to Embark on Another”: Exploring University Research Blogs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)The article focuses on blogs related to research activities of the academic community. Research-related blogs as components of university websites have developed into an array of sub-genres shaped by specific foci, their ... -
Vowel Perception and Transcription Trainer for Learners of English as a Foreign Language
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-09-30)We use the freely available program Praat to create a vowel-training application for learners of English familiar with IPA transcription. The application is easy to operate, allowing users to change the training difficulty, ... -
Language and Argument: a Review of the Field
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper has a dual purpose: it both seeks to introduce the other works in this issue by illustrating how they are related to the field of argumentation as a whole, and to make clear the tremendous range of research ... -
Marriage, Liberty and Constitution: a Corpusassisted Study of Value-Laden Words in Legal Argumentation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper investigates the interplay between judicial argumentation and evaluative or emotive language identified in two US Supreme Court landmark cases on the right of same-sex couples to marry. The analysis of both ... -
Four Basic Argument Forms
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper provides a theoretical rationale for distinguishing four basic argument forms. On the basis of a survey of classical and contemporary definitions of argument, a set of assumptions is formulated regarding the ... -
Confrontational Argumentative Strategies in the Discourse of Foreign Policy Experts
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)The aim of this study is to explore the discursive practices of foreign policy experts. While policy decisions involving war and peace keep people alarmed all over the globe, most of these decisions are shaped by policy ... -
Advocacy and Enactment: Exercitives and Acts of Arguing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)Goodwin and Innocenti (2016) have contended that giving reasons may be a form of enactment, where a claim is supported by the very activity of making the claim. In my view, the kind of interaction that these authors are ... -
A Comparative Study of Political Communication in Televised Pre-Election Debates in Poland and the United States of America
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-03-30)This paper combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies to study the persuasive strategies employed by candidates taking part in televised pre-election debates in Poland and the United States between 1995 and 2016. ... -
Old English Simile of Equality: The Highest Degree of Similarity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)This paper aims to provide an account of Old English similes of equality marked by the superlative degree of the adjective gelic. It deals with the structure and semantics of similes marked by the (ge)/(on)licost component, ... -
The Interplay of Cross-Linguistic Differences and Context in L2 Idiom Comprehension
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)The present study investigates to what extent the effect of cross-linguistic differences on L2 idiom comprehension is modulated by the presence of a context. Sixty students of German as a foreign language (L1 French) ... -
Back to Orthoepia – Spelling in Pronunciation Instruction: “Words Commonly Mispronounced” by Learners of Six L1s
(Sciendo, 2019-01-11)This is a continuation of Nowacka’s (2016) study on the importance of local and global errors and spelling in pronunciation instruction. Unlike in the previous research that focused on the performance of Polish learners ... -
Parenthetical Clauses in the Qurʼān
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)In the few traditional Arabic grammatical sources that address the term parentheticals it is usually defined as the insertion of a clause between two other clauses, or between two syntactic components, for taʼkīd “emphasis.” ... -
Non-Native Attitudes to /θ/ and /ð/: A European Case Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)This paper investigates the evaluation of the English sounds /θ/ and /ð/ as produced by European non-native speakers. Using the data from a larger web survey, we compared the error judgements by different native and ... -
Accommodation of L2 Speech in a Repetition Task: Exploring Paralinguistic Imitation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-01-11)Phonetic convergence is the process by which a speaker adapts his/her speech to sound more similar to his/her interlocutor. While most studies analysing this process have been conducted amongst speakers sharing the same ... -
Nominalization in Applied Linguistics and Medicine: The Case of Textbook Introductions and Book Reviews
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-11-16)Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study explored variational use of nominalization in 600 textbook introductions and 200 book reviews in applied linguistics and medicine. The nominalized expressions were ... -
Comparing Formulaicity of Learner Writing through Phrase-Frames: A Corpus-Driven Study of Lithuanian and Polish EFL Student Writing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-11-16)Learner corpus research continues to provide evidence of how formulaic language is (mis)used by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). This paper deals with less investigated multi-word units in EFL contexts, ... -
Lexicogrammatical Features in Japanese English: A Study of Five Speakers
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-11-16)Japanese English (JE) refers to the English spoken by Japanese citizens. This paper characterizes JE by examining its lexicogrammatical features produced by five speakers participating in experimental recordings. Drawing ... -
Discourse-Pragmatic and Processing-Related Motivators of the ordering of Reason Clauses in an Academic Corpus
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018-11-16)The present research is aimed at examining the relative importance of the competing motivators of the sequencing of reason clauses in a corpus of research articles of applied linguistics. All the finite reason clauses ...