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“We may conclude that:” a corpus-based study of stance-taking in conclusion sections of RAs across cultures and disciplines

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Research article conclusions form an important sub-genre in the academic community. This study aims to compare the use of stance markers in English and Chinese research article conclusions and investigate how stance markers may vary in soft and hard ...
Liming Deng, Ping He
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen   +11 more
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Neural pathways of attitudes toward foreign languages predict academic performance

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Learning attitude is thought to impact students’ academic achievement and success, but the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms of learning attitudes remain unclear.
Di Lu   +5 more
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Metadiscourse Markers in CNN Health News Articles

open access: yesSuar Betang, 2022
This study aims to identify the types and functions of metadiscourse markers used in CNN health news articles. This study is conducted by applying a qualitative method.
Nurul Aini, Rosyida Ekawati
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2021
Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
doaj   +1 more source

The role of individual and social variables in task performance. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper reports on a data-based study in which we explored - as part of a larger-scale British-Hungarian research project - the effects of a number of affective and social variables on foreign language (L2) learners’ engagement in oral argumentative ...
Bronfenbrenner, U.   +23 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluation of a tool for Java structural specification checking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Although a number of tools for evaluating Java code functionality and style exist, little work has been done in a distance learning context on automated marking of Java programs with respect to structural specifications.
Dil, Anton, Osunde, Joseph
core   +1 more source

MODALNOŚĆ EPISTEMICZNA – ANALIZA KORPUSOWA WYKŁADNIKÓW MODALNOŚCI EPISTEMICZNEJ W WYROKACH UNIJNYCH I KRAJOWYCH [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The aim of this paper is to establish the repertoire and distribution of verbal and adverbial exponents of epistemic modality in English- and Polish-language judgments passed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) and non-translated judgments passed by
KOŹBIAŁ, Dariusz
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Morphologic observations of human T and B lymphocytes by scanning electron microscopy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1974
T cell concerned with cell mediated immunity and B cell concerned with humoral antibody are classified by scanning electron microscopy of the surface structure of lymphocytes using E binding lymphocytes and EAC (sensitized sheep erythrocytes treated with
Yamamoto, Isamu
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

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