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Smoothie or Fruit Salad? Learners’ Descriptions of Accents as Windows to Concept Formation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper explores the linguistically naive descriptions which one set of EFL learners provided when identifying and describing accents. First and second-year English majors at a French university were asked to do two tasks.
Alice Henderson   +70 more
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British or American? Iranian EFL learners’ Perceptions toward English Accents: Exploring possible relationships

open access: yesIJET (Indonesian Journal of English Teaching), 2019
Native English accents (British and American) are known as highly favored and accepted varieties compared to other existing accents in English as foreign language (EFL) context.
Hiwa Weisi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“I Regret Lying" vs. “I Regret that I Lied": Variation in the Clausal Complementation Profile of REGRET in American and British English

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2022
The historical development and change of the English complementation system has received a great deal of attention in recent years, but work remains to be done on Present-day English.
Raquel P. Romasanta
doaj   +1 more source

The statutes of Iona : the archipelagic context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In recent decades, understanding of the historical development of Britain and Ireland has benefited significantly from the adoption of integrated approaches to the history of Britain and Ireland.
Cathcart, A.
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'In countries so unciviliz'd as those?': the language of incivility and the British experience of the world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
’Civilisation’, wrote Arnold J. Toynbee in the 1950s, ‘is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbour.’1 In a similar vein, the ways in which peoples and nations have thought others to be civilised, or uncivilised, have altered and changed
Alexander, M., Struan, A.
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The creative style of C.W. Harrison and J.L. Humphreys in Malay pantun translation

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2015
Malay pantuns were brought to the centre stage of literary awareness in early 20th century British Malaya via creative English translations produced by three British officials that is J.W. Wilkinson, Sir R.O. Winstedt and A.W. Hamilton.
Krishnavanie Shunmugam
doaj   +14 more sources

THE ENGLISH DEMOCRATS PARTY IN THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF BRITISH EUROSCEPTICISM

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
«Euroscepticism» is probably the best term to describe the attitude of the United Kingdom towards the European Union in the contemporary history. It is undoubtedly a mul-tifaceted notion connected with many other phenomena of socio-political life ...
E. Atapin
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A Comparative Analysis of Politeness in First Encounter Conversations in British English Film and Peninsular Spanish Film

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2010
This paper aims at analysing the phenomenon of politeness in British English and Peninsular Spanish in the first encounter conversations between strangers taking into consideration power and distance, where relevant.
Valerija Sinkevičiūtė
doaj   +1 more source

АMERICАN ENGLISH АND BRITISH ENGLISH

open access: yes, 2022
Аlongside with globаlizаtion аnd intensive migrаtion, rаpidly chаnging economic, politicаl аnd culturаl bаckground the considerаtion of issues of interculturаl communicаtion is becoming increаsingly importаnt. In the compаrаtive studies, very often English is one of compаred lаnguаges.
openaire   +1 more source

Feedforward, -backward and neutral transparency measures for British English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Orthographic transparency metrics for opaque or deep languages such as French and English have tended to focus on feedforward and/or feedback directions, with claims made for the influence of both on reading.
Spencer, Kenneth A.
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