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Tourism Discourse Revisited: An Analysis of Evaluative Strategies in Tourist Brochures from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2019
Today, studying tourism discourse has become widespread among scholars in the field of text analysis. However, few, if any, studies which have addressed the language of tourism have examined the verbal content of travel brochures from the point of view ...
Alireza Jalilifar, Yasamin Moradi
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The R files : applying relevance model to conspiracy theory fallacies

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 1999
The general aim of this article is to test how the relevance model can be of use to model argumentation. More specifically, to check if the theory developed by Sperber and Wilson (1986) is able to explain some specific fallacies, the so called ...
Roser Martínez Sánchez   +2 more
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The role of cognitive mechanism in making inferences

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 1999
Discovering the nature and role of inferential mechanisms in language understanding is a distinctly common concern in work carried out both within Cognitive Linguistics and Relevance Theory.
Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
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Conceptualization of events, semantic relations between constructions and topology : a catastrophe theoretic study of "get" and "be"

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 1999
The existence of syncretisms in the marked coding patterns for variations in the domains of transitivity and voice presumably indicate the interrelation between constructions involving different event views and voice alternations and voicerelated ...
Juana Isabel Marín Arrese
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Imagination and nonliterality : a case study of superhuman entities in religion

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 1999
In the present work we would like to emphasize the aspect of imagination as an element of great relevance in the production of metaphorical processes. With the experientialism upheld by the cognitive approach, people's imaginative ability is established ...
María Dolores Fernández de la Torre Madueño
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LEARNER FEEDBACK TO THE INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATOR’S EAP TEACHING: A REFLECTIVE STUDY

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2023
While the success of language instruction is unquestionably reflected in students’ performance in communicating in the target language, their voices generally can best express their success, disappointment, or complacency worth to reflect.
Ihtiara Fitrianingsih, Anwar Efendi
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Unrealiable selves in an unreliable World : the multiple projections of the hero in Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Unconsoled"

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2000
The Unconsoled (1995), Ishiguro's fourth novel, was received with some perplexity by critics who formerly praised the author's controlled "Jamesian" realism.
Carlos Villar Flor
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INDONESIAN PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF WORLD ENGLISHES IN INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TESTS: A SMALL-SCALE SURVEY

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2023
While a considerable number of English language users come from expanding-circle countries, international English proficiency tests like TOEFL and IELTS tend to model inner-circle varieties like British, North American, and Australian, implying that ...
Abyan Syam Zain, Willy Prasetya
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Vikram Chandra's constant journey : swallowing the World

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2000
The purpose of this paper is to account for the challenging hybridity and in-betweenness that derives from the presence of non-Western traces in contemporary fiction written in a global language.
Dora Sales Salvador
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A NEED ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS THROUGH SELF-ASSESSMENT

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2023
Many homeroom teachers in elementary schools are demanded to teach English. Meanwhile, they lack knowledge of English teaching to young learners. They need a professional development program that can assist them to improve their teaching competence ...
Sri Hastuti
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