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Indexical deprivation: The dominant link between cochlear implants and global English among Taiwanese deaf individuals

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 441-469, December 2024.
Abstract This paper develops the concept of “indexical deprivation” from the experiences of English learning in relation to cochlear implant use among Taiwanese deaf adults. Based on the framework of language ideological assemblage, this paper traces how institutional discourses and practices at different levels contribute to the indexicalization ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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Parodying incompetence in (I)europa: Hearing glide insertion and communism in a Romanian politician's speech

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 493-517, December 2024.
Abstract My paper asks which linguistic features become enregistered to a politician's image, and how this process occurs. I examine glide insertion in the speech of former Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and parodies of her. As parody requires exaggeration of salient features in order to be legible, I use it to investigate what is heard as ...
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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Profiling the Use of Attitude Markers, Boosters and Hedges in Academic Written Production of International Student Mobility Participants

Journal of Language and Education
Background: Motivated by the growing interest in the impact of study abroad programs on language development, the present research addresses a gap in the literature by examining the often-overlooked role of metadiscourse markers in writing.
Саня Маринов, Mirna Varga
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Exemplification in student essay writing: A study of learner corpus of essay writing (LCEW)

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1514-1532, November 2024.
Abstract In academic writing, exemplification plays a crucial role in contextualizing complex ideational material through instances the readers can understand. In addition to illustrating ideas through concrete instances, the act of providing examples serves the purpose of helping the readers grasp the writer's intentions.
Chintalapalli Vijayakumar
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Rhetorical moves and metadiscourse in English–Vietnamese literature reviews: Variations in niche construction and authorial positioning [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study examines how literature reviews in English and Vietnamese linguistics research articles construct research positioning through rhetorical move structure and interactional metadiscourse.
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
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African American English, racialized femininities, and Asian American identity in Ali Wong's Baby Cobra

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 64-84, September 2024.
Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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A corpus-based analysis of critical thinking through interactional metadiscourse in pre-service EFL teachers’ writing

Turkish Journal of Education
Critical writing seeks to enhance university students' ability to think causally and reason effectively, and this improvement should be evident in their language use in the assignments.
Selahattin Yılmaz, Ferda İlerten
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Interactive metadiscourse markers in Turkish research article abstracts: a diachronic analysis

Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı- Belleten, 2020
Metadiscourse is an important linguistic resource which establishesthe writer-reader relationship and makes a text reader-friendly. Thereis a scarcity of research which has analyzed the metadiscourse markersin a diachronic way. This study aims to explore the interactive markerssuch as transitions, frame markers, endophoric markers, evidentials,code ...
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The use of interactional metadiscourse markers by Saudi EFL male and female college students: the case of a gender-sensitive topic

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
A few studies have explored the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in argumentative writing by male and female college students. More importantly, none explored the topic of metadiscourse resources with respect to gender-sensitive topics.
Ghuzayyil Mohammed Al-Otaibi, Abeer Abdulhadi Hussain   +1 more
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Metadiscourse Markers in Linguistic Abstracts by American and Iraqi Students of English

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2018
Metadiscourse markers are means for organizing a writer’s information and create a connection with her/his readers. When students write, they usually focus on one type of these markers that is the interactive markers and belittling the use of the other ...
KawtherAbdul Ameer Hussein, Jinan Ahmed Khalil, Nawal Fadhil Abbas   +2 more
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