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Impressions that matter: How Italian SOEs construct a digital image through persuasive language strategies

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts : an introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
One aspect of the progress being made is that the focus of attention has widened. Adverbials, though still the heart of the matter, now form part of a much larger set of constituent types subsumed under the general syntactic label of adjunct; while ...
Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine   +2 more
core  

Linguistic Analyses of Written Corrective Feedback for Chinese as a Second Language: ChatGPT Versus Human Teachers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study conducted linguistic analyses of the written corrective feedback (WCF) for Chinese as a second language (CSL) provided by chat generative pre‐trained transformer (ChatGPT) and human teachers (including preservice teachers and senior teachers).
Ling Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adverb position in heritage and L2 Spanish-English code-switching

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
This study examines adverbs in intraclausal code-switching among late L2 Spanish bilinguals and heritage speakers of Spanish. Spanish allows adverbs pre-verbally and post-verbally, while English restricts adverbs to pre-verbal position.
Bryan Koronkiewicz
doaj   +1 more source

Adverbial Markers of Epistemic Modality Across Disciplinary Discourses: A Contrastive Study of Research Articles in Six Academic Disciplines

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2017
Epistemic adverbs, like other markers of epistemic modality, are concerned with the speaker’s assessment of the truth value of the proposition. In other words, they indicate that the speaker considers certain situations as possible, impossible, probable,
Rozumko Agata
doaj   +1 more source

Learner‐Focused Strategy Instruction From the Teachers’ and the Learners’ Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerous large‐scale quantitative studies have been conducted to yield a macro‐level picture of the effectiveness of strategy instruction. However, little is understood about learners' actual processing of strategy instruction and interaction with the teachers delivering it.
Isobel Kai‐Hui Wang, Andrew D. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

The Modal Adverbs mutlaka and kesinlikle in the Context of Directives and Deontic Modality in Turkish [PDF]

open access: yes
The study of deontic modality has largely concentrated on the semantics of linguistic forms with little systematic discussion of its connection to pragmatics.
S¸kriye Ruhi
core  

Quantificational variability effects with plural definites : quantification over individuals or situations? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this paper we compare the behaviour of adverbs of frequency (de Swart 1993) like usually with the behaviour of adverbs of quantity like for the most part in sentences that contain plural definites.
Endriss, Cornelia, Hinterwimmer, Stefan
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
wiley   +1 more source

On adverb formation in Romanian

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009
The current paper discusses adverb formation in Romanian starting from the treatment of Spanish –mente adverbs in a recent paper by Torner (2005) who introduces the notion of phrasal affix in his treatment of Spanish –mente adverbs.
Daria Protopopescu
doaj  

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