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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
wiley   +1 more source

A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English and Persian Editorials [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre.
Davud Kuhi, Manijeh Mojood
doaj  

A Study of Interactional Metadiscourse in English Travel Blogs

Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2020
With the development of tourism industry in internet plus era, travel blogs have become the main form of travel recording. Regarded as a valid device to intrude readers and to construct interaction between the writers and their readers, interactional metadiscourse is adopted widely.
Ying Huang, Huijian Wang, Junhong Tang
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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
wiley   +1 more source

A Cross-linguistic Study of Metadiscourse in English and Urdu Newspaper Editorials

Corporum, 2020
Metadiscourse markers are linguistic expressions which help the writers to organize their discourses. The original impetus for the research study came from the need to explore similarities and differences among the use and distribution of ...
Muhammad Imtiaz Shahid , Hafiz Muhammad Qasim , Muhammad Hasnain   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

An audit and analysis of electro convulsive therapy patient information sheets used in local health districts in New South Wales Australia

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1119-1128, August 2024.
Abstract Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is a widely used psychiatric treatment; however, it remains contentious. It is therefore important that people are provided with accurate and balanced information before consenting to ECT. The aim of this study was to audit and analyse the content and language of ECT information sheets used in local health ...
Timothy Wand, Sophie Isobel, Holly Kemp
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“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 134-149, February 2024.
Abstract The conference abstract (CA) is an important promotional academic genre that allows scholars to introduce their research to their peers as a conference presentation if the proposal is accepted by the reviewing gatekeepers. However, few studies have explored the CA in specific disciplines and no studies have examined this genre from an ...
Pedro Martín, Sally Burgess
wiley   +1 more source

Metadiscourse in Three Minute Thesis Presentations: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

SAGE Open
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, as a flourishing academic genre, contributes to assisting scholars to popularize scientific knowledge to a heterogenous audience.
Qiang Zhou, Xiaohui Yu, Xurui Zhang, Yashuang Liu   +3 more
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Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students [PDF]

, 2013
Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, are not yet available.
Dobbs, Christina L., Scott, Jessica Armytage, Uccelli, Paola   +2 more
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