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Hawamdeh, Mohammad Amin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
The present study aims at observing how bracketed insertions in translation elicit mutual cooperation with receptors. As a survey-based study applying to an officially approved English interpretation of the Quran, it seeks to examine whether any insertions in brackets hinder the SL message from being well-conveyed and for what reasons they may be…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Processing, Second Languages, Islam
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Janjaroongpak, Kasin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
This preliminary study explored the possibility of using an opaque polysemous grammatical unit as a representation for the whole grammatical knowledge of a learner. There were two groups of informants, a group with a certified language proficiency level at CEFR B1-B2 and a learner group at A1-A2 level. The informants were asked to provide a Thai…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Neloy, Md. Nahid Hasan; Sarkar, Dipak Kumar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
This paper aims to uncover the phenomenon of Code-switching and the motivation behind the propensity of using acrolect in code-switching among the youths of Bangladesh. In comparison to the past, switching code has become an ecumenical term of Bilingualism in this world. Countries like Bangladesh where English has been taught or used as a foreign…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Indo European Languages
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Kimani, Rosemary Wamaitha; Nyarigoti, Naom Moraa; Gathigia, Moses Gatambuki – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The phenomenon of language shift is brought about by language contact. Language shift from mother tongue to another language among the youth is an issue that cannot be wished away due to, "inter alia", factors like urbanization, migration, multilingualism or bilingualism and the country's language policy. Studies have also shown that…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Language Skill Attrition, Bilingualism, Urbanization
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Supiani – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This research aims to describe the use of language code applied by the participants and to find out the factors influencing the choice of language codes. This research is qualitative research that describe the use of language code in the cross married couples. The data are taken from the discourses about language code phenomena dealing with the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Case Studies, Spouses, Family Relationship
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Skalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)