Argument Strength is in the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Effects in Persuasion
, 2017 Americans spend about a third of their time online, with many participating in online conversations on social and political issues. We hypothesize that social media arguments on such issues may be more engaging and persuasive than traditional media ...
Anand, Pranav +3 more
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A Spinning Wheel for YARN: User Interface for a Crowdsourced Thesaurus [PDF]
, 2014 YARN (Yet Another RussNet) project started in 2013 aims at creating a large open thesaurus for Russian using crowdsourcing. This paper describes synset assembly interface developed within the project — motivation behind it, design, usage scenarios ...
Braslavski, P. +5 more
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Analyzing Use of Thanks to You: Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts [PDF]
, 2011 This investigation of thanks to you in British and American usage was precipitated by a situation at an American university, in which a native Arabic speaker said thanks to you in isolation, making his intended meaning unclear.
Crompton, Peter, Lanteigne, Betty
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How Cognitive Linguistics Affect Indonesian Students’ Understanding on Learning Phrasal Verbs
ArbitrerPhrasal verb is one aspect of English that is often avoided by EFL learners, including students in Indonesia. This is usually due to the method of learning phrasal verbs that tends to make it difficult for learners. Hence, this research tries to present
Gema Febriansyah +2 more
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Algorithms for Analysing the Temporal Structure of Discourse [PDF]
, 1995 We describe a method for analysing the temporal structure of a discourse which takes into account the effects of tense, aspect, temporal adverbials and rhetorical structure and which minimises unnecessary ambiguity in the temporal structure.
Grover, Claire +2 more
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Investigating the psychological and emotional dimensions in instructed language learning: obstacles and possibilities [PDF]
, 2005 In this article I put forth the core argument that Second Language Acquisition (SLA) needs to account for the psychological and emotional dimensions of second language (L2) learning, but that a number of epistemological and methodological difficulties ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Sociological concepts and issues A study in conceptual construction
قضايا لغوية, 2023 This study aims to shed light on sociolinguistics, which is one of the most recent and fertile sciences, and its importance due to its attempt to realize what modern linguistics has overlooked, which is the context in which language issued, as well as ...
Abderrahmane Bardadi
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown +6 more
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Literacies in Times of Crisis: A Trioethnography on Affective and Transgressive Practices
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2021 Utilizing duoethnography (NORRIS; SAWYER, 2012), the authors explore challenges and opportunities for critical language teaching in times of crisis.
Brian Morgan +2 more
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Neural Semantic Parsing by Character-based Translation: Experiments with Abstract Meaning Representations [PDF]
, 2017 We evaluate the character-level translation method for neural semantic parsing on a large corpus of sentences annotated with Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs). Using a sequence-to-sequence model, and some trivial preprocessing and postprocessing of
Bos, Johan, van Noord, Rik
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