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Rasenberg, Marlou; Özyürek, Asli; Bögels, Sara; Dingemanse, Mark – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
When people interact to establish shared symbols for novel objects or concepts, they often rely on multiple communicative modalities as well as on alignment (i.e., cross-participant repetition of communicative behavior). Yet these interactional resources have rarely been studied together, so little is known about if and how people combine multiple…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Strategies, Nonverbal Communication, Task Analysis
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Jia, Mian – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Applied linguists and Communication scholars have mainly adopted different yet complementary approaches to research on language and health communication. Using discourse-analytic (DA) approaches such as conversation analysis and corpus analysis, applied linguists tend to focus on describing and explicating health messaging techniques in naturally…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics
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Zhang, Man – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Until now, there has been very little unified analysis of metadiscourse across speech and writing. Drawing on a reflexive metadiscourse model, this article conducts a multidimensional analysis of metadiscourse across 10 spoken and written registers in a corpus of 626 texts. Two metadiscourse dimensions, participants' interaction and discourse…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Variation, Written Language, Discourse Analysis
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Yildiz, Funda Uzdu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims at describing in detail how university students in Turkey use euphemisms in their daily language usage. The description of the euphemisms in the study was made according to the linguistic formations of euphemisms defined by Warren and accepted in the literature. The euphemisms used by the participants were determined by asking them…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Turkish, College Students, Interpersonal Communication
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Tippenhauer, Nicholas; Fourakis, Eva R.; Watson, Duane G.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
When communicating with other people, adults reduce or lengthen words based on their predictability, frequency, and discourse status. But younger listeners have less experience than older listeners in processing speech variation across time. In 2 experiments, we tested whether English-speaking parents reduce word durations differently across…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Speech Communication, Nouns, Word Frequency
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Al-Gahtani, Saad – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study explored the development of L2 learners' interactional competence in Arabic when making requests. Combining a longitudinal and cross-sectional design, it closely examined how learners' language proficiency affected their use of multiple requests in daily-life interactions. Participants included L2 learners (n = 40) and Saudi Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tay, Dennis – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Metaphor theory bears many implications for counseling processes, but metaphor in extended counseling talk is seldom evaluated. This article reports an exploratory skin conductance and discourse analysis of metaphorical versus literal communication styles in facilitating affective engagement over time. After background interaction with the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Counselor Client Relationship, Emotional Response, Discourse Analysis
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Lau, Ken; Lin, Chia-Yen; Odle, Eric – Language and Education, 2020
The orientation toward a knowledge-based economy has led to the increasing need to pursue advanced degrees to further improve one's competitiveness in society. Research on postgraduate programs has thus sparked interest from multiple perspectives, among which, generated written artifacts such as dissertations have become the center of attention.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Donald, Shane – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Drawing on Conversation Analysis, this paper investigates how an English native speaker interviewer utilizes clarification requests as a form of recipient design during an interview to resolve problems of non-understanding. This data is contrasted with interviews between English language learners at a private university in Taiwan. The findings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
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Özçaliskan, Seyda; Lucero, Ché; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognitive Science, 2018
Sighted speakers of different languages vary systematically in how they package and order components of a motion event in speech. These differences influence how semantic elements are organized in gesture, but only when those gestures are produced with speech (co-speech gesture), not without speech (silent gesture). We ask whether the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Adults, Native Speakers, English
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Schweinberger, Martin – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study aims to exemplify how language teaching can benefit from learner corpus research (LCR). To this end, this study determines how L1 and L2 English speakers with diverse L1 backgrounds differ with respect to adjective amplification, based on the "International Corpus of Learner English" (ICLE) and the "Louvain Corpus of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning
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Ikeda, Ayaka; Kobayashi, Tessei; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Psychology, 2019
We are expected to behave appropriately to suit social situations. One form of behavioral control is the selection of a linguistic register that is appropriate to the listener. Register selection errors can sometimes be interpreted as rude behavior and result in having a bad influence on the relationship with the listener and the evaluation by…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Pragmatics, Japanese
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Garner, James; Crossley, Scott – Modern Language Journal, 2018
Current quantitative methods in second language (L2) acquisition have proven useful in examining how phraseological unit production changes over time. However, these methods are limited in that they do not allow for the analysis of individual differences in those changes. This study demonstrates the potential for Latent Curve Modeling, a type of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
Bachelor, Jeremy W. – Online Submission, 2017
There is an ongoing debate among L2 educators regarding the best way for students to achieve effective communication and language spontaneity. The flipped classroom refers to an educational model where the traditional practice of dedicating class time to direct instruction is flipped so that students receive initial instruction at home and then…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage
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Perales-Escudero, Moisés – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
The goal of this paper is to describe a group of adult Mexican English learners' ideologies about different APPRAISAL patterns in English-language scientific texts. APPRAISAL is a descriptive framework of the linguistic resources used to convey feelings and attitudes (Martin & White, 2005). This topic is particularly interesting in EAP…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Health Sciences, English for Academic Purposes, Mexicans
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