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Peer reviewedCollins, Peter C. – World Englishes, 1996
Tests claims regarding "get"-passives in English via interrogation of a set of written and spoken corpora. The data suggest that "get"-passives are often associated with two types of pragmatic implicature. Finally, the corpus provides evidence of three types of variation with 'get'-passives: regional, stylistic, and diachronic.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedChoi, Yeon Hee – World Englishes, 1988
Examines text structure of argumentative writing in English by Korean speakers as compared with native speakers'(NS) writing in Korean and NS writing in English. Interactive text analysis showed English essays had a clear structural pattern that the Korean essays lacked. Sample essays and questionnaires are included in Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), English (Second Language), Essays, Higher Education
Peer reviewedTyler, Andrea; And Others – World Englishes, 1988
A discourse analysis of videotaped teaching demonstrations by 18 Korean and Chinese teaching assistants reveals these non-native speakers of English lack the mastery of those cues, such as prosody and topicalization, that allow native speaker/listeners to perceive intended relationships among the ideas presented. (DJD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
