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Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The main goal of the study reported in this paper was to verify whether the Big Five personality traits can be considered correlates of accentedness in a setting deprived of pronunciation-focused instruction. Each trait ... -
Pronunciation Anxiety, Pronunciation-Related Views and Pronunciation Learning Actions of EMI and English Major Students
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The present study explored pronunciation views, learning actions and anxiety in two differentiated English learner groups: one group which was studying English in an engineering degree and another group enrolled in an ... -
Zooming into the L2 Speech Fluency Markers of Anxious and Non-Anxious Advanced L2 Learners – an Extreme Case Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The study examines selected temporal markers of L2 utterance fluency in the speech of advanced L2 learners who exhibit high (HLA) and low (LLA) language anxiety levels. Out of the pool of 59 participants, six HLA and six ... -
Tailoring International Pronunciation Activities for Hungarian Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Pronunciation teaching is gaining more and more recognition in international contexts, however, empirical research concerning pronunciation teaching is underrepresented in the Hungarian educational context. While there are ... -
A Multimodal Study of How Pronunciation-Induced Communication Breakdowns are Managed During Tandem Interactions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper offers quantitative and qualitative findings from the exploration of communication breakdowns in English tandem interactions, by adopting a multimodal perspective. It focuses on the ways in which pronunciation-induced ... -
Self-Study of the MOOC English Pronunciation in a Global World: Metaphonetic Awareness and English Accent Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge ... -
Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our ... -
Accents in Speech Recognition through the Lens of a World Englishes Evaluation Set
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech, creating bias issues for users and providers. The phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present challenges for ASR systems in both ... -
Theoretical and Practical Phonetic Instruction in the Eyes of Advanced Students. An Editorial to RiL Special Issue Vol. 21.3 and 21.4 on Pronunciation Research and Pronunciation Learning/Teaching in a Global EFL Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The article focuses on advanced students’ beliefs and views related to their own pronunciation and pronunciation learning/teaching. It also presents their opinions on the university courses dedicated to phonetics and ... -
The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. ... -
Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The language of propaganda can be treated as a specialist language with its own specialized terminology. It is produced by groups of variously configured propaganda experts responsible for the creation of propaganda messages, ... -
Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction ... -
A Topic-Based Diachronic Account of the Polysemy of the English Verb ‘Run’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study discusses the polysemy and diachronic semantic frequency shifts of the English verb run using a topic model. The increase in corpus-based research in cognitive linguistics has yielded many empirical findings on ... -
What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper investigates the motivation behind denominal conversion of animal nouns to verbs as well as their resultant senses. Upon critical consideration of previous accounts of animal verb senses and their possible ... -
Elaboration sites and prepositional meaning construction in English and Polish
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Although prepositions are relational linguistic units of modest sizes, they can contribute a variety of different meanings to the constructions they are found in. The paper looks into the notion of e-site, which allows for ... -
Przestrzeń litanii w poezji współczesnej
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)In recent research special attention has been paid to theocentric space-time as a cosmological principle that explains the enumerative character of the traditional litany. It is, indeed, no accident that the genre gained ... -
Żywotność Bachtinowskiej „poetyki czasoprzestrzeni” na przykładzie "Prawieku i innych czasów" oraz "Empuzjonu" Olgi Tokarczuk
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)The article is an attempt to analyze the influence of Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotope concept on the different ways of existence of time and space in two novels by Olga Tokarczuk: one of the earlier ones — Primeval and Other ... -
Dom rodzinny jako miejsce mitobiograficzne Zbigniewa Żakiewicza
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023)On the basis of literary sketches from the Frozen in Time volume and Zbigniew Żakiewicz’s novels Lupine Meadows, The Abacz Clan and Wilio, in the Depths of the Sea, a symbolic connection between the writer’s family home ... -
Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)The paper analyzes selections from Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly, to study the complex act of nation-building taking place in India during the first half of the twentieth century. Through these periodicals, it ... -
Grande Dame Guignol at 60: A Review of Crazy Old Ladies: The Story of Hag Horror by Caroline Young (BearManor Media, 2022)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-20)