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The Expression of Certainty in Live Streaming: A Comparative Analysis of Epistemic Stance Between Professional Streamers and College Students

SAGE Open
Epistemic stance is adopted as an approach to convey the speakers’ certainty about knowledge and beliefs. This research aims to make a comprehensive comparison between professional live streamers and Chinese college students in terms of epistemic stance ...
Shuang Wang
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The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study

Topics in Linguistics, 2015
The paper studies the degree of grammaticalization of the structures gotta, gonna, wanna and better. The study presumes that the semantics of these structures – more precisely their modal polyfunctionality (i.e.
Machová Dagmar
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Critical questions for documenting collections as data: Provocations from developing datasheets for web archives datasets

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholarship on documentation of datasets is increasingly concerned with capturing the context, socio‐technical processes, and decisions shaping data. “Datasheets for datasets” is a recent approach developed by researchers in machine learning that foregrounds transparency and uncovering bias through data documentation.
Emily Maemura, Helena Byrne
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Perfect and Imperfect Modals in Romance Some syntactic remarks on the Tense/Modality interaction

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
This paper addresses the interplay between Tense-Aspect and Modality in Romanian and some Romance languages, in ambiguous sentences that exhibit what has been called “perfective raising”.
Elena Soare
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Modals and perfect morphology

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2018
This paper argues for a correlation between the distribution and interpretation of sequences in which perfect morphology is realized on a modal verb, on the one hand, and the semantics of perfect morphology, more precisely the stage reached by present ...
Brenda Laca
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Measuring what matters: Evaluating the impact of curriculum decolonisation initiatives in UK business schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Curriculum decolonisation has become a prominent feature of equity agendas in UK higher education, yet there remains limited empirical and theoretical work on how such initiatives are evaluated, particularly within business schools. This paper presents one of the first multi‐institutional empirical studies examining how UK business schools ...
Sally Everett, Rachael Carden, Kenisha Linton   +2 more
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