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Identifying The Pragmatic Force Of Attiudinal Intonation In Some Selected Political Speeches

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2018
     The main problem of the present study may be attributed to the fact that some politicians use different ranges and patterns of intonation when they want to express different emotions and attitudes that underlie different pragmatic forces. The study
Instructor Mahmood Atiya Farhan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investing in Game‐Based Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE): A Chinese‐Speaking Gaming Community

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap Between L1 and L2: Enhanced Emotional Vocabulary Through Elaborative Processing in Spanish‐Speaking English Language Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosody and scope in German inverse linking constructions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In German, prosody interacts with quantifier scope. We investigate this interaction in inverse linking constructions. We present evidence from elicited production of linguistically naive speakers supporting the following two claims: 1) There are two ...
Bott, Oliver, Sauerland, Uli
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Grammar Searches for Wh‐Questions in Beginning‐Level Child Second Language Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is important for learners to be able to ask wh‐questions in interaction. However, making wh‐questions can be difficult for beginning‐level EFL leaners, particularly for those learners whose L1 and L2 differ in the way wh‐questions are formed.
Haerim Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Intonation in Romance, by Sónia Frota and Pilar Prieto (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2018
The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven chapters: nine content chapters summarise the results of detailed prosodic analysis of intonation patterns across varieties of a particular Romance language, and are framed by an introduction and
Sam Hellmuth
doaj   +2 more sources

Don't interpret focus : why a presuppositional account of focus fails, and how a presuppositional account of givenness works [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci.
Sauerland, Uli
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Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically and disproportionately (dis)advantaged. This paper investigates the dynamic nature of bias in ML applications.
Monideepa Tarafdar, Irina Rets, Yang Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Routine Dynamics at a Cardiac First‐Aid Unit: How Context, Emotions, and Identities Drive the Adaptation of Action Patterns

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Emotions are a catalyst for actions. They are therefore important for developing an understanding of organizational routines as generative patterns of interdependent actions. To investigate how the performances and action patterns of routines are impacted by emotion changes brought about by alterations in the context of routine enactment, we ...
Emre Karali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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