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The Impact of Lexical Bundle Length on L2 Oral Proficiency
LanguagesLexical bundles (LBs) are crucial in L2 oral proficiency, yet their complexity in terms of length is under-researched. This study therefore examines the relationship between longer and shorter LBs and oral proficiency among 150 L2 learners of varying ...
Dan Hougham +3 more
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Discoursal Analysis Of Lexical Bundles In Political Speeches
آداب الكوفة, 2017 This study investigates a new category of word combination referred to as lexical bundles. Lexical bundles has been defined by Biber et. al. (1999) as " sequences of three or more words that show a statistical tendency to co-occur" (Ibid:183). The study aims at exploring the functions of lexical bundles in political speeches, finding out the types of ...
Abbas Deygan Darweesh, Anfal Adnan Ali
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Decoding Emotional Signatures of Ethical Ads: An Analysis of Actor‐Viewer Synchrony
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether ethical advertisements differ from conventional ads in their on‐screen emotional signatures and whether those signatures transfer to actor‐viewer synchrony. Study 1 analyses 138 professionally produced YouTube ads using Automated Facial Expression Recognition (AFER) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to quantify actor ...
Vik Naidoo, Nicolas Hamelin
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Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 academic writing
Language Learning & Technology, 2010 This paper adopts an automated frequency-driven approach to identify frequently-used word combinations (i.e., lexical bundles) in academic writing. Lexical bundles retrieved from one corpus of published academic texts and two corpora of student academic writing (one L1, the other L2), were investigated both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Baker, Paul, Chen, Yu-Hua
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although research on sustainability in the healthcare sector is growing, limited attention has been paid to how pharmaceutical companies can be motivated to engage more actively in achieving net‐zero healthcare goals. This study argues that the breadth of directors' experiences—across educational, industrial, and organizational domains—can ...
Ruixin Su, Jianguo Du, Si Li
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Prepositional phrase Lexical bundles in the writings of Kurdish learners of English
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesPrepositional phrase lexical bundles are a numeral recurrent sequence of words, differing fundamentally from other categories of lexical bundles. These particular categories of lexical bundles have frequent usages in academic English writings and ...
Zahra Abdulrahman Abdullah +1 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study examines how narrative disclosure tones (NDTs) and corporate governance mechanisms (CGMs) affect sustainability reporting practices (SRP) in an emerging economy. Data from 125 non‐financial firms in Pakistan, spanning 2011–2022, are utilized. SRP is measured using both GRI and the novel IFRS S1 standards‐based indices. Three NDTs are
Arshad Hasan +2 more
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Lexical bundles in three oral corpora of university students
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studiesOn the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in three corpora of spoken English, one of them of native speakers of English and the remaining two of non-native speakers of ...
Purificación Sánchez Hernández
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Tracking Climate and Environmental Attention: A News‐Based Composite Index
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces the Climate and Environmental Attention Index, a composite indicator that tracks media attention to climate and environmental issues. Based on the Semantic Brand Score, the proposed index extracts significant signals from unstructured text, going beyond traditional measures of word frequency and sentiment.
Gianna Figà‐Talamanca +3 more
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Correspondence Theory and Phonological Blending in French
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 Though less productive than rival word-formation processes like compounding and affixation, blending is still a rich source of neologisms in French. Despite this productivity, however, blends are often seen by scholars as unpredictable, uninteresting ...
Lee Scott
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