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Can we profit from a loss and still expect substantial gains? Grammatical metaphors as discourse builders and translational choices

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
The present paper starts from proposed points of synergy between Halliday’s (1998) grammatical metaphors and conceptual metaphors as proposed in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Ritchie & Zhu, 2015) and concentrates on the nature and function of lexical ...
Goran Milić   +1 more
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The Development and Validation of the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the increasing need for effective Chinese vocabulary assessments, this study developed the Chinese Vocabulary Levels Test (CVLT), a test designed for intermediate‐level Chinese as a second or foreign language (CSL/FL) learners, based on the vocabulary lists (levels 4–6) from the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for ...
Shiwei Qi, Ailan Fu
wiley   +1 more source

Cantonese (Dis)investment by Cross‐Border Postgraduates in Hong Kong: Negotiating Competing Capitals and Multiple Identities Among Neoliberal Subjects

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One key strategy that local universities and the government of Hong Kong have adopted in recent years is attracting more students from Chinese Mainland to study at Hong Kong's higher education institutions and contribute to society after graduation.
Lingnan Zhang, Yue Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation newspeak

open access: yes
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Vincent Devictor, Laurent Godet
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Discourses and Realities of English: Japanese Undergraduates’ Everyday Online and Offline Language Experiences

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the narratives of two Japanese undergraduate students, this article examines their everyday experiences of using and learning English, situated within entangled relations of power. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion of discourse, the study reveals how multiple power/knowledge systems—such as native speakerism, prescriptivism ...
Aina Tanaka, Daisuke Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Whose Language Counts?’ Linguistic Racism, Gen‐AI, and Policy Silence in Polish and Romanian AI Governance

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As generative artificial intelligence spreads through European education, its development continues to be shaped overwhelmingly by English and other dominant languages. This article examines how national AI and digital education policies in Poland and Romania discursively construct a linguistically homogeneous ‘ideal learner,’ rendering Roma ...
Anna Becker, Florin D. Salajan
wiley   +1 more source

Perception, emotion and synesthesia: Metaphorical combining in Keats

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
This article attempts to demonstrate the elaboration of poetic conceptual metaphor by way of perception verbs, emotion verbs, and expressions of synesthesia (sensorial mixing and blending).
Katrina Brannon
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