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Yi Zhang; Wei Ren – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Although a growing body of literature has explored multilingual users' digital practice, dialects adoptions have received relatively little attention. As an important part of the Chinese language, spoken dialects, or '[Chinese characters omitted]' (fangyan), are highly complex in their classification and colloquial usage. Nevertheless, Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Dialects, Written Language
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Köksal, Onur; Yürük, Nurcihan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
Translation/interpretation has always been central to intercultural communication. Lack of knowledge of another culture may cause confusion, misunderstanding or even offense during communication process and it also makes the conclusion of international or bilateral agreements difficult or impossible. To the extent that without communication there…
Descriptors: Translation, Intercultural Communication, Language Processing, Role
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Kahrizsangi, Abbas Ali Salehi; Haddadi, Mohammad Hossein – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Acquisition and improvement of literary translation competence is an important undertaking in teaching literary translation with the aim to enable the student to translate into the target language the content, expressive power, language style, and an equal function of the literary text. This essay pursues the aim of helping to create and improve…
Descriptors: Literature, Translation, Creoles, Teaching Methods
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Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language
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Biber, Douglas; Gray, Bethany – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
The stereotypical view of professional academic writing is that it is grammatically complex, with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly. In contrast, spoken registers, especially conversation, are believed to have the opposite characteristics. Our goal in the present paper is to challenge these stereotypes, based…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Stereotypes, Nouns, Writing (Composition)
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Keim, Inken – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
This paper begins by looking at responses to Bernstein in Germany in the 1970s that criticized his notions of class difference in sociolinguistic codes. As part of a re-examination of Bernstein's ideas, the paper goes on to look at the current communicative situation in German education where urban schools have many second-generation immigrant…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Peer Groups, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Giannoni, Davide Simone – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2008
English has gradually become the lingua franca of medical publications and conferences across Europe, with scholars from "smaller" languages opting for English because of the greater scientific impact and prestige associated with a wide international audience; at the same time, however, this transition has disrupted well-established textual…
Descriptors: Sentences, Government Libraries, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Myers, Greg – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Study of the pragmatics of politeness conventionally draws on conversational data, but can be extended to some genres of written text. A framework is described that analyzes politeness strategies in terms of impositions (claims and denials of claims) and reveals some stylistic features in scientific papers and in popularizations. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles
Moirand, Sophie – Francais dans le Monde, 1990
The media interview is seen as a form of information exchange that is increasingly important and needs to be understood. Similarities and differences in written and oral interview reports are briefly examined, and interview objectives, forms (dialogue or narrative), and language functions are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), French, Instructional Materials, Interviews
Hawes, Thomas; Thomas, Sarah – Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, 1995
The paper examines co-occurrences of the major theme types with the various lateral verbs, as outlined in G. Kress and R. Hodge (1979), primarily unmarked/participant themes, other (non-participant) noun group themes, and marked themes. The data consist of 60 editorials from 2 major British newspapers, "The Times" and "The…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes, Editorials, Foreign Countries
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Sa'Adeddin, Mohammed Akram A. M. – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Translations of three Arabic texts into English illustrate the differences between the aural and visual modes of text development. An analysis of the function of these modes in their social contexts explains the problems of the negative transfer of habits from one language to another. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Aural Learning, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Allouche, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
An approach to writing instruction in a second language begins with a look at the different functions of oral and written language and proceeds to an analysis of stylistic differences. A number of examples are offered from French textbooks, letters, and excerpts from speech used on television. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Language Role, Language Styles
Tickoo, Asha – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Two samples of college student writing, paragraphs from freshman compositions, are analyzed for presence or absence of two characteristics of literate prose, decontextualization and autonomy. Writing is decontextualized and autonomous when whatever is needed for its comprehension is included in the words of the text, and comprehension is not…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries