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Haijuan, Hu – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper, taking linguistic theory of adaptation as its theoretical foundation, examines how courtroom questioning on the part of the judge is adapted to various contextual factors in legal setting. To account for the judge's adaptation to the legal procedures in courtroom questioning, three types of questions are found as specific choices at…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Court Litigation, Judges, Questioning Techniques
Binmahboob, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2022
This study investigated the use of metadiscourse tools by Saudi and British authors in Applied Linguistics discipline. In particular, the study tried to identify the kinds of metadiscourse markers used by Saudi and English authors in ALRAs and to determine the most and least frequent metadiscourse makers. In order to achieve these goals, (10)…
Descriptors: Authors, Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Research Reports
Sabir, Paiman Hama Salih; Jawad, Hoshang Farooq – English Language Teaching, 2019
Discourse Markers are one of an uninvestigated aspect of language in old and modern Kurdish linguistics, that has not been given due attention, neither by native nor non-native researchers. On this ground, it is hoped that the present study sheds light on this almost entirely ignored aspect of the language and this study is meant to be a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Phrase Structure
Zheng, Xindi – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study investigates the transitivity structure of research articles and examines the variations of process types across sections, aiming to explore experiential meaning construction in academic discourse. The corpus for this study consists of ten applied linguistics research articles published from 2018 to 2020 in the top journals of the…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Alqaryouti, Marwan Harb; Ismail, Hanita Hanim – English Language Teaching, 2018
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (1610-1611) is one of the controversial plays regarding whether to be placed in the purview of colonialism or anti-colonialism. The bard sketches two antithetical characters in the course of the play, Prospero and Caliban, who form the two extremes of the self against the other dichotomy. This study aims at…
Descriptors: Drama, English Literature, Foreign Policy, Literary Devices
Xu, Zhanghong; Yan, Alan – English Language Teaching, 2020
With the booming of Chinese internet corporations, various wrongdoings have been frequently exposed to the public, which damages their corporate image. To face the challenge, these companies usually resort to apologies for image restoration. This study investigates how apology strategies are employed by Chinese internet corporations to restore…
Descriptors: Internet, Corporations, Pragmatics, Public Relations
Yuan, Bin – English Language Teaching, 2018
The current research is mainly conducted to explore the pragmatic functions of English rhetoric in public speech. To do this, methods of close reading and case studies are adopted. The research first reveals that the boom of public speech programs helps reexamine the art of utterance, during the delivery of which English rhetoric plays an…
Descriptors: English, Rhetoric, Public Speaking, Case Studies
Alsoraihi, Maha H. – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper deals with the emergence of discourse analysis (DA), its significance and its application in the classroom environments. It also sheds light on (DA) dimensions and how its relevance to English language teaching (ELT) will enhance the quality of teaching/learning a language. This research paper supports the fact that language cannot be…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
Fitri, Nidya; Artawa, Ketut; Satywati, Made Sri; Sawirman – English Language Teaching, 2019
The usage of hedges in trial discourse context is interested to be explored. This paper presents a description of phenomena related to the use of hedges by witnesses and experts in Indonesian court trial. It focuses on the usage of hedges in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and utterances in court trial context. Conversation among participants…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Court Litigation, Indonesian, Discourse Analysis
Zhou, Ruiqi; Qin, Siying – English Language Teaching, 2020
Critical Discourse Analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse regarding language as a form of social practice. As a specific discourse, news discourse is a representation of the journalists' expression and construction of events, as well as readers' understanding and cognition of the events reported. It functions as a…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Discourse Analysis, Conflict, Foreign Policy
Zhanghong, Xu; Qian, Wang – English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper examines the employment of pragmatic empathy as a grand strategy in business letter writing. To account for the realization of pragmatic empathy in business letters, we make a corpus-based manual analysis of four types of business letters. It is found that (1) the choice of deixis is a major concern in most letters: while second person…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Empathy, Letters (Correspondence), Business Communication
Pan, Jiejing – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on the Communicative Action Theory, intersubjectivity theory and the interpersonal classification of metadiscourse, this study makes a comparison between the source texts and the English-translated texts of Chinese company profiles with a self-built parallel corpus, along the dimensions of lexical variation, lexical density, grammatical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Translation, Computational Linguistics, Classification
He, Chunyan; Wei, Xueyan – English Language Teaching, 2019
Using 328 papers published in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) journals from the Web of Science between 2009 and 2018, this study analyzed corpus' influences in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) research with mapping knowledge domains CiteSpace. This study found that the relationship between international EAP studies and corpus tends to…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Academic Language, Discourse Analysis
Agbo, Isaiah I.; Kadiri, Goodluck C.; Ijem, Blessing Ugo – English Language Teaching, 2018
Metaphor is an important figure of speech copiously deployed in political discourse. In this study, we adopted the framework of Charteris-Black's (2004) Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) which derives from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).This framework is interested in exploring the implicit intentions of language users, the ideological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Political Attitudes
Pitaksuksan, Nasree; Sinwongsuwat, Kemtong – English Language Teaching, 2020
With Conversation Analysis (CA) insights, this paper examines the textbooks used to teach oral English communication to Thai EFL learners in secondary schools. In an attempt to raise the awareness of features of naturally-occurring conversation and help increase the learners' exposure to these features, two textbook series, hereafter A and B, were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Punctuation