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'R.I.P. man...u are missed and loved by many': entextualising moments of mourning on a Facebook Rest in Peace group site [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Digital media offer new domains for people to articulate aspects of their everyday selves, as well as to share resources, views, attitudes, and emotions on an unprecedented scale (Barton and Lee 2013; Georgakopoulou 2006; Jones and Hafner 2012).
Giaxoglou, Korina
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Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
wiley   +1 more source

Genre approach to teaching formal letter writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Writing in a foreign language is both complex and fascinating, whether viewed from the perspective of a teacher or a student. My teacher-interest in the writing skill stems from the fact that in my experience it is the most difficult skill to develop ...
Klimczak, Agata
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Application of Formulaic Language to Chinese Teaching at New Zealand Primary School [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
语块是语言中普遍存在的一种以意义为单位,结构相对固定,使用时整存整取的特殊语言结构。近年来语块逐渐受到国内外学者的重视,与语块相关的研究也呈逐年递增趋势。然而,有关语块理论同二语习得结合的实证性研究相对较少。笔者结合自己任教新西兰小学的教学经历,将语块理论同新西兰小学汉语教学相结合,探讨语块理论在初级阶段的新西兰汉语教学中的作用,试图为新西兰的汉语教学提供新思路、新方法。 本文参考了国内外学者的研究成果,从对外汉语教学角度对语块的确定原则、称谓、定义和分类标准等进行重新确定和区分 ...
庞青
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of corpus-based instruction on phraseology in learner English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study analyses the effects of data-driven learning (DDL) on the phraseology used by 223 English students at an Italian university. The students studied the genre of opinion survey reports through paper-based and hands-on exploration ...
Ackerley, Katherine
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World Englishes, applied linguistics, and air traffic control communication

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Air traffic control (ATC) communication in international aviation is conducted in a variety often referred to as Aviation English. Based on an analysis of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), two specialized sub‐registers of Aviation English are identified in previous ...
Markus Bieswanger
wiley   +1 more source

Improvisation, Creativity, and Formulaic Language

open access: yesThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2000
The key element of transformational-generative grammar, or what is often referred to as "the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics," is the claim that after only limited and contingent exposure to the data of spoken language, speakers are effortlessly able to produce new, accurate, and appropriate utterances in their native language, which other speakers
openaire   +1 more source

The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2005. The roots of syntax and how they grow: Organic Grammar, the Basic Variety and Processability Theory. In S. Unsworth, T. Parodi, A. Sorace and M.
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
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