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Ludmila Baturina; Elena Panova; Elena Tjumentseva; Zulkhumar Jumanova; Nikolay Lepikhov; Ilona Koroleva; Galina Vorobeva; Elena Khripunova – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
As newspapers follow editorial work, the author's identity remains in the background. Hence, newspapers' discursive features should be studied from textual perspectives to understand the social dimension of the messages produced in such texts. What is more, pragmatically, the text as a whole and its separate language units with their structural…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Text Structure
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Taif Hatam Shardaghly – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Being ubiquitous, language is essential to our everyday existence. Human language is seen to be a traditional field that depends on using words in accordance with intricate standards. In this study, the idea of aggressiveness is investigated from a pragmatic viewpoint. The goals of this research are to identify the aggressive techniques that…
Descriptors: Speeches, Political Candidates, Discourse Analysis, Presidents
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Jaashan, Hasan Mohammed Saleh – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Richards (2015) states that receptive competence is far more developed in all language users than productive competence and that in L2 learning, new lexis first shows as passive knowledge and later as active or productive competence. Moreover, productive competence is not a natural corollary to receptive competence; rather, the former requires…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Junren Wang; Ling Yann Wong; Muhammad Alif Redzuan Bin Abdullah – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Translation, from a cultural perspective, is the exchange and communication between two distinct cultures, posing a challenge to the translator to possess not only fluency but also a deep understanding of the history and culture of both languages. This study examined the comprehension abilities for translation strategies of native Chinese English…
Descriptors: Translation, Semantics, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
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Kadhim, Hanan Abdul-kareem; Mohammed, Wafaa Sahib Mehdi – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Aggression is a negative form of an anti-social behavior. It is produced because of a particular reason, desire, want, need, or due to the psychological state of the aggressor. It injures others physically or psychologically. Aggressive behaviors in human interactions cause discomfort and disharmony among interlocutors. The paper aims to identify…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Pragmatics, Psychological Patterns
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Joharry, Siti Aeisha – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
One way to investigate learner writing is by analyzing the most frequently recurring sequences of words, that is, lexical bundles. This paper presents results for lexical bundles analyses of a Malaysian corpus (MCSAW) against its reference language variety, LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays). Key 4-word lexical bundles are firstly…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Using the concepts of apologia, image repair and rhetoric, this paper examines the strategies employed by a former president of the Republic of Ghana to simultaneously maintain his reputation after losing the 2016 Ghanaian general elections and campaign for re-lection as the standard bearer of his party. The paper finds that the former president…
Descriptors: Presidents, Foreign Countries, Reputation, Political Campaigns
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Yaseen, Maha S.; Sayyed, Sa'ida W.; Ibrahim, Hanan M. – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This paper aims at exploring the different modes of persuasion used in English and Arabic advertisements that mainly address women. The research adopted a qualitative research design with the content analysis approach to prepare a study based on the modes like rhetoric, discourse analysis and persuasion strategies. The study hypothesized that…
Descriptors: Advertising, Persuasive Discourse, Periodicals, Arabic
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Kimberley Pager-McClymont; Evangelia Papathanasiou – English in Education, 2023
In this study, we used Conceptual Metaphor Theory (henceforth CMT) for the benefit of English for Academic Purposes' teaching and learning. CMT underpins how in metaphorical expressions, one concept is understood in terms of another. We argue that CMT can help students understand and master argumentation skills and essay structure, although there…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
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Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina; McKinley, Jim – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Within the currently diverse UK higher education environment, one important aspect of learning is the development of intercultural competence. The study that informs this paper investigated the ways intercultural competence was perceived as being enhanced or inhibited through current language and educational practices at a university that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Engstrom, Craig L.; Petre, James T.; Petre, Elizabeth A. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
This article presents findings from a rhetorical analysis of job advertisements posted by the fastest growing companies in the United States (Inc. 5000 rankings). The analysis suggests that companies rely on standard rhetorical figures and share similar rhetorical visions of novelty that likely effect their organizational culture, paradoxically…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Advertising, Corporations, Organizational Culture
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Loiseau, Nathalie; Delgado Luchner, Carmen – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
To date, research into conference interpreting has not produced a definition of the concrete subskills associated with an A, B and C language in interpreters' combinations of working languages. Existing frameworks for performance assessment in foreign languages are not designed to cover the very advanced range of language mastery associated with…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bari Khan, Abdul; Ahmad, Madiha; Ahmad, Sofia; Ijaz, Nida – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
In this article stylistic analysis of short story "The Last Word" by Dr. A. R. Tabassum is performed. The formative elements of the story, such as point of view, characters and allegorical element, are discussed in detail so as to give a better insight of the story. The story is analyzed stylistically in terms of figures of speech where…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Language Styles, Grammar, Phonology
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Techacharoenrungrueang, Suparak – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study aims to analyze positive remarks linguistically manifested through English intensifiers, i.e. very and so, and their collocates in café reviews. The appraisal framework primarily focuses on the feelings or attitudes of speakers or writers. It plays a part in providing communicative resources whereby speech functions are performed…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Computational Linguistics, Positive Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hussein, Khalid Shakir; Ameer, May Ali Abdul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Novels, Semantics, Figurative Language
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