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This is a synchronic study with an exploratory corpus-based research design. The objective of the study is to explore and discuss frequently occurring nouns used in the business news and articles published in Pakistani newspapers in 2023.
Muhammad Amjad+2 more
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‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain
Most introductory textbooks on linguistics make a point of highlighting the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive approaches to the study of language: ‘linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive” has long been a mantra.
Joan C. BEAL
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Bridging cultures through explicitation: a corpus-based analysis of bilingual literary translations
This study examines explicitation strategies in translated literary texts to determine their impact on the text’s clarity, style, and cultural representation.
Muhammad Asim Mahmood+3 more
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Foregrounding through Lexical Deviation: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Yousafi’s Aab-e-Gum
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of lexical deviation as a foregrounding technique in Yousafi’s prose fiction Aab-e-Gum. The use of unusual and uncommon language imparts a strong impression on the readers’ minds.
Muhammad Javed Iqbal+2 more
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The advancing of information and communication technologies has contributed to their introduction into almost all areas of human activity, as well as the field of demography. The advent of such a field as electronic demography has become a precondition for the improvement of an electronic demographic system on the e-government platform. Demography is a
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An Evaluation of Environmental Governance in Urban China Based on a Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Analytic Network Process [PDF]
The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of urban environmental governance by developing hesitant fuzzy linguistic analytic network process (HFL-ANP). The study bridges the gaps in current knowledge in the following ways: the study methodically develops the HFL-ANP method to evaluate and pick the optimal environmental governance strategy ...
Gao, Xing, Shi, Cheng, Zhai, Keyu
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The paper investigates the extent to which policy-makers, academics private sector representatives and citizens in different European countries are likely to have different understandings of what the increasingly popular term ‘collaborative governance’ means and implies.
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Linguistic diversity and accessibility in Mexican government web sites: executive branch
Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)
Cynthia Nallely Mata-Martínez+2 more
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Accessibility hierarchy and acquisition of English relative clauses by Urdu EFL learners
This study aims to examine the errors committed by Urdu EFL learners in acquiring English Relative Clauses (henceforth RCs) by putting to test the predictions of hypothesis proposed by Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH).
Maria Niaz+3 more
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Public Sector CSR Communication: A Dialogical Approach
Public sector organisations have different communication needs from private sector organisations. For example, they quite often have programmes aimed at behaviour changes, challenging their ability to choose the strategy which best suit their purpose ...
Christa Thomsen
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