Research in Language: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in TV Discourse
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)Since repetition is a natural phenomenon used to perform various functions in interactional discourse, adopting a pragmatic analysis to the discourse of Dr. Phil and his guests on Dr. Phil's TV show, this study attempted ... -
Testing the Limits of Anaphoric Distance in Classical Arabic: a Corpus-Based Study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)One of the central aims in research on anaphora is to discover the factors that determine the choice of referential expressions in discourse. Ariel (1988; 2001) offers an Accessibility Scale where referential expressions, ... -
Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in ... -
The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns
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Epistemic Vigilance, Cautious Optimism and Sophisticated Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)Humans have developed a critical alertness to the believability and reliability of communication: epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010). It is responsible for trusting interlocutors and believing interpretations. But ... -
The Act of Fictional Communication in a Hermeneutic Pragmatics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-01-29)This paper is concerned with fictional communication, as the act of an author in relation to a reader. Fictional discourse exhibits certain complexities that are not observable in other forms of discourse. For example, the ... -
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 ... -
Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3
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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas ... -
Initial glottalization and final devoicing in polish English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)This paper presents an acoustic study of the speech of Polish leaners of English. The experiment was concerned with English sequences of the type George often, in which a word-final voiced obstruent was followed by a ... -
New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day ... -
Mispronounced lexical items in polish English of advanced learners
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The present study is a report on an experiment in which 20 English Department students, all advanced learners of English, were recorded having been asked to read a list of diagnostic sentences containing 80 words known to ... -
The double-edged sword of RP: the contrasting roles of a pronunciation model in both native and non-native environments
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-21)The observations I make are largely based on my MA research, which is now being modified for the purposes of my Ph.D. I asked undergraduate students of English in England and the Czech Republic to evaluate seven voices ... -
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 ...