English for specific purposes: Traditions, trends, directions
Studies in English Language and Education, 2020 English for Specific Purposes (ESP) began around fifty years ago as a result of pressing worldwide demands for fast-paced language training in occupational and professional settings, rapid revolutions in theoretical linguistics, and burgeoning pressures ...
Mohammad Ali Salmani-Nodoushan
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Toward a Sustainability Standard for Cultural Organizations: Borrowing From Tourism
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural organizations are increasingly engaging with sustainability, yet they lack a sector‐specific standard to guide and institutionalize efforts as long‐term strategies. This study reviews research papers on sustainability standards in the tourism sector, a field with greater experience with such tools, and horizontally borrows insights ...
Małgorzata Ćwikła, Leticia Labaronne
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Mixed feelings, mixed outcomes? When emotionally ambivalent framing enhances idea appreciation
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in how linguistic strategies shape audience responses to innovative ideas, prior evidence on the benefits of using emotional language remains mixed. Building on research on emotional ambivalence and social evaluation, we introduce the concept of emotionally ambivalent framing (i.e., the combination of ...
Donato Cutolo +2 more
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A Contrastive Study of Generic Organization of Research Article Introductions Written by Iranian and Non-Iranian Writers in Applied Linguistics [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2007 The purpose of this study was to apply Swales’ (1990) CARS (Create a Research Space) Model to analyze the introductions of research articles written by Iranian and Non-Iranian applied linguists.
Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz +2 more
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A GENRE ANALYSIS OF BIOGRAPHY TEXTS ON THE IMDb WEBSITE
Language Value, 2019 Author/s Özgür ÇELİK Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Turkey ABSTRACT Genre analysis is among the core areas of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and has been gradually gaining importance because it offers clear, to-the-point and fruitful ...
Özgür Çelik
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Genre analysis of introduction section in electrical engineering undergraduate laboratory reports. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2022 Veerappan V +4 more
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“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This study investigates how participants manage the decision to end or continue their conversation when directly asked about their preferences. The dataset consists of 19 conversations where the researcher explicitly asked if the two participants wanted to continue their conversation, thus causing some potential interactional trouble for the ...
Emmi Koskinen
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A Genre Analysis of a Non-Academic Genre: The Obituary
International Journal of LinguisticsThis paper presents a genre analysis of the contemporary obituary. Following a literary review, a mixed methods approach is employed to analyse a sample of obituaries of the same deceased person but from a variety of UK sources. The intention is to carry out a pilot project to explore the possibilities of some analysis techniques for genre description.
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
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