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DISCOURSE WORLD AS PROJECTIVE MACROREALITY IN BRITISH ADVERTISING: COGNITIVE-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 Advertising discourse is analyzed from projectivity perspective: with regard to the construction of the global discourse meaning known as “discourse world” as mental macroreality exposed to marketing laws.
S. L. Kushneruk
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Cuadernos de Turismo, 2018 This article is focused on the language of tourism as a means of economic potential. Language in tourism, especially language of promotional texts, motivates and attracts tourists to visit a certain destination, and, consequently, makes profits.
Jasna Potočnik Topler
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Pragmatic functions of lengthenings and filled pauses in the adult-directed speech of Hungarian children [PDF]
, 2013 Two most common disfluencies of spontaneous speech, vowel lengthenings (VLE) and non-lexicalized filled pauses (NLFP) were investigated in the adult-directed speech of eight Hungarian children.
Deme, Andrea
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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract There is little published research on school‐aged learners of Mandarin Chinese in anglophone contexts. This article explores English secondary school pupils' motivation for learning Chinese compared to European languages. The research questions were: (1) What is the strength and nature of pupils' self‐reported motivation for learning languages?
Robert Woore, Laura Molway, Clare Savory
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper addresses linguistic and epistemic justice by exploring multilingual practices in tertiary contexts in an English‐dominant linguistic ecology. The paper argues that the university linguistic space (linguascene) governs language choices toward English monolingualism, and this has implications for epistemic justice in multilingual ...
Anikó Hatoss, Eliot Allport
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CrossroadsThe paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse.
Magdalena Wieczorek
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The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2017 This paper investigates a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g., shoot a rabbit /eat rabbit /wear rabbit ). Computational semantic approaches have traditionally analysed such sense alternations as being generated by an inventory of ...
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Collocation Instruction: Second and Foreign Language Teachers’ Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practices
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collocational knowledge and competence are essential for effective foreign language (FL) and second language (L2) learning. Since teachers' conceptualizations shape their instructional practices, understanding their perceptions of collocations and their instruction is crucial.
Abid el Majidi
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research into the relationships of linguistic complexity and accuracy to functional adequacy has focused on either spoken or written mode. The current study extended previous studies by investigating these associations across both modalities and how the nature of these relationships was influenced by learners’ L2 proficiency and task type.
Xiaojun Lu, Yui Suzukida
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