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A linguistically-driven methodology for detecting impending and unfolding emergencies from social media messages [PDF]
, 2016 Natural disasters have demonstrated the crucial role of social media before, during and after emergencies (Haddow & Haddow 2013). Within our EU project Sland \ub4 ail, we aim to ethically improve \ub4 the use of social media in enhancing the response of ...
Musacchio, MARIA TERESA +3 more
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Defining an Adjective by Means of Its Grammatical Collocators
Filolog, 2015 The collocational method pioneered by the author and followed in his works for years reveals that even grammatical words such as prepositions and some conjunctions (that), as well as grammatical categories (the infinitive) when collocating with adjectives can lead to semantic definitions of adjectives.
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract The analysis of Lenin’s language and rhetoric undertaken by the leading representatives of Russian Formalism in the pages of the journal LEF in early 1924 represents more than a tactical attempt to align Formalism with the mainstream of Bolshevik culture‐building in the context of the Soviet 1920s.
Alastair Renfrew
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Developing academic vocabulary objectives: corpus analysis and word lists [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter is concerned with the development of a vocabulary syllabus to accompany and supplement a coursebook series. To further enhance the use of these books, we decided to initiate a project to develop an academic vocabulary syllabus.
Deveci, Tanju, Simpson, Adam John
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Worlding geographies: A question of languages
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract This intervention responds to the ‘Geography in the World’ series, addressing the question from two angles. Firstly, it shifts the focus from geography in the world to worlding geographies. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of ‘becoming‐minority’, it encourages reflection on the current geography of knowledge production as a historical,
Anne‐Laure Amilhat Szary +9 more
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DIFFERENTIATING THE NEAR-SYNONYMS USING A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH: BOOKING VS RESERVATION
TEFLIN JournalPrecise use of near-synonymous vocabulary is essential for effective communication in the service industry, where subtle lexical distinctions can influence clarity, professionalism, and pragmatic appropriateness across different contexts.
Piyapong Laosrirattanachai +1 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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The Indeclinable Nouns in Russian Language (Theoretical and historical problems)
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2009 This article gives a brief discussion of the origin and categorisation rules of the indeclinable nouns in Russian. The grammatical features of the indeclinable nouns demonstrates itself not in morphology but in its collocations with the other parts of ...
- Wuxin Geng
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World 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
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Jurnal Humaniora, 2012 It seems universally acknowledged in all languages that words often co-occur with other word(s) in units. However, they are not always freely combined nor individually analyzable. Their co-occurences are adhered to some grammatical principles. The English prepositional phrase, at the moment, for example, is subject to grammatical choice of the ...
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