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Reported Speech: Corpus-Based Findings vs. EFL Textbook Presentations

open access: yesELOPE, 2008
Corpus linguistic research shows that EFL textbook grammar descriptions often do not reflect authentic language usage. Based on this background, this paper presents a survey of the presentation of indirect reported speech in EFL textbooks currently used
Danijela Šegedin
doaj   +1 more source

Punctuation in Quoted Speech

open access: yes, 1996
Quoted speech is often set off by punctuation marks, in particular quotation marks. Thus, it might seem that the quotation marks would be extremely useful in identifying these structures in texts. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite so clear.
Doran, Christine
core   +2 more sources

METAPHORS AND DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN THE JAVANESE PROVERBS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The current study investigated directive speech acts and metaphors in the Javanese Proverbs. In order to fulfill this goal, the researcher identifies the structural forms, the communicative function, the felicity conditions and the metaphor mapping ...
Sari , Kharisma Puspita
core  

Antimicrobial Efficacy of a Taurolidine‐Based Antimicrobial Compound on Contaminated Surfaces Simulated in a Standardized 4‐Field Test

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
As implantable medical devices become indispensable to modern medicine, a silent threat grows alongside them: device‐associated infections. Despite decades of antibiotic innovation, infection rates keep climbing, costing lives and billions in healthcare expenses.
Benito Baldauf   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coding Strategies of Indirect Reported Speech in Typological Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to provide a cross-linguistic survey of the variation of coding strategies that are available for the grammatical distinction between direct and indirect speech representation with a particular focus on the expression of ...
Jäger, Andreas
core  

Automating Vascular Biology: An End‐to‐End Automated Workflow for High‐Throughput Blood Vessel‐on‐a‐Chip Production and Multi‐Site Validation

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
AngioPlate384 is a 384‐well open‐top platform that automates production of more than 100 miniaturized, perfusable blood vessels embedded in hydrogel and supported by stromal cells. Stromal‐endothelial co‐culture strengthens blood vessel barrier function and yields responses useful for translational planning. Scalable and automation‐ready, it suits drug
Dawn S. Y. Lin   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE USE OF EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS IN HANNAH MONTANA SESSION 1

open access: yesRegister Journal, 2015
This study aims to describe kinds and forms of expressive speech act in Hannah Montana Session 1. It belongs to descriptive qualitative method. The research object was expressive speech act.
Nur Vita Handayani
doaj   +1 more source

Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Neuromorphic Devices and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Organic electrochemical transistors are emerging as promising platforms for neuromorphic devices that emulate neuronal and synaptic activities and can seamlessly integrate with biological systems. This review focuses on resultant organic artificial neurons, synapses, and integrated devices, with an emphasis on their ability to perform neuromorphic ...
Kexin Xiang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic-prosodic characteristics of reported speech in Mérida Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
En esta investigación se analizan las caracterizas acústico-prosódicas del discursoreportado en el habla de Mérida. De igual manera, se intenta describir estascaracterísticas y su relación con funciones pragmáticas dentro de la conversación.Para esto se ...
Fernanda Fernández, María   +1 more
core   +1 more source

LEAD: Literature Enhanced Ab Initio Discovery of Nitride Dusting Layers for Enhanced Tunnel Magnetoresistance and Lower Resistance Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) using MgO tunnel barriers face challenges of high resistance‐area product and low tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR). To discover alternative materials, Literature Enhanced Ab initio Discovery (LEAD) is developed. The LEAD‐predicted materials are theoretically evaluated, showing that MTJs with dusting of ScN or TiN on ...
Sabiq Islam   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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