Apologising in British English [PDF]
Language in Society, 2005 Mats Deutschmann, Apologising in British English. Umeå, Sweden: Umeå University, 2003. Pp. 262. One of the most significant problems in speech act research is doubtless the shortage of naturally occurring spoken language in the data under observation.
Woodman, Gill
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The Analysis of Influence and Cause of British English on American English and New Zealand English [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 English originated in Britain. Since the 17th century, with the colonial expansion of Britain, English has been brought to all parts of the world, forming many varieties of English such as British English, American English, Australian English and New ...
Liao Lei
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Implicit Arguments in Ugandan English [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2021 In standard British/American English, some transitive verbs, which are ontologically specified for objects, may be used with the objects not overtly expressed (for example, leave), while other transitive verbs do not permit this syntactic behavior (for ...
Bebwa Isingoma
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In search of the nature of English nationalism: From the empire to the modern era
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 This paper attempts to reveal the essence of the complex nature of English nationalism by tracing its transformation from the 18th century to the early 21st century.
E.A. Atapin
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The Typical Different Features of Grammar of the British English (BrE) and American English (AmE)
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2016 There are a number of varieties of English all over the world such as American, British, Australian, Indian, Singaporean, Philippine English, etc. However, there are only two varieties of English which are most widely and dominantly taught, learned, and ...
I Wy Dirgeyasa
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The Use of American and British Lexis in Brunei English
J-Lalite, 2021 In pronunciation, influenced by American English, a shift in Brunei English can be observed in the increasing use of [r] in tokens such as car and heard particularly among younger speakers whose pronunciation may be influenced by American English.
Mohamad Nur Raihan
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The Students' Perceptions of Practicing Speaking Skill By Using British Council Website
Indonesian Review of English Education, Linguistics, and Literature, 2023 This study aims to determine the perception of the use of the British Council website. This study uses quantitative methods and the research participants were 20 students in the 6th semester of the English Education Program at IAIN KEDIRI with twenty one
Aprilia Anggraini Ali +2 more
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The Present Perfect and Preterite in British and American English
ELOPE, 2010 The objective of our article is to present the selected results of the research which was conducted for the purpose of our master’s thesis. We focused on the transfer of the functions of the present perfect into the domain of the preterite in informal ...
Katarina Dea Žetko
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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 much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in language tests? [PDF]
, 2014 Background Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition.
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