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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 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 from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Open Cultural Studies, 2022 The article draws together sound studies and Black studies to examine Himes’s sonic inventions and interventions for imagining the persistence of Black life under conditions of extreme domination.
Mozes Dorottya
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Beyond saying thanks. Compliment responses in American English and Peninsular Spanish [PDF]
, 2017 This study explores how American English and Peninsular Spanish speakers respond to a compliment. Participants completed an online discourse completion test with nine different complimenting scenarios.
Cots Caimons, Josep Maria +1 more
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Complex systems in the history of American English [PDF]
, 2014 Kretzschmar 2009 has demonstrated that language in use, speech as opposed to linguistic systems as usually described by linguists, satisfies the conditions for complex systems as defined in sciences such as physics, evolutionary biology, and economics ...
Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.
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Modelling L1 and the artificial language during artificial language learning
Laboratory Phonology, 2023 Artificial language learning research has become a popular tool to investigate universal mechanisms in language learning. However, often it is unclear whether the found effects are due to learning, or due to artefacts of the native language or the ...
Dinah Baer-Henney, Kevin Tang
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Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2023 The article explores the ways in which illustrated magazines of the Weimar period contribute to a larger gendering of transnational exchange, particularly through image-text doubling and shifts.
Ruth Mayer
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Multimodal Resolution of Overlapping Talk in Video-Mediated L2 Instruction
Languages, 2022 This paper investigates a pervasive phenomenon in video-mediated interaction (VMI), namely, simultaneous start-ups, which happen when two speakers produce a turn beginning in overlap.
Taiane Malabarba +2 more
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Is Adult Second Language Acquisition Defective?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 There is a large literature showing that adult L2 learners, in contrast to children, often fail to acquire native-like competence in the second language.
Ewa Dąbrowska +3 more
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Accuracy and Fluency Teaching and the Role of Extramural English: A Tale of Three Countries
Languages, 2022 European learners of English are increasingly using this language recreationally, which is referred to as Extramural English (henceforth EE). The level of EE use in a given country might be reflected in English Language Teaching (ELT) practices.
Alexandra Schurz +2 more
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Making Unstrange: Theory and Second-Person Fiction
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2022 Russian Formalism’s suggestion that artistic literature makes the familiar strange finds echoes in today’s theories of “unnatural narrative.” “Naturalization” of seemingly strange texts understands uncanny literary effects as based on qualities of ...
Joshua Parker
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