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Todd, Richard Watson – rEFLections, 2023
Schizophrenic discourse is characterized by thought disorder, or a lack of coherence, prompting substantial research into identifying and measuring the incoherent discourse of schizophrenics. Much of this research has examined short extracts of elicited spoken data and used researcher judgments. This study examines the connectedness of…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse, Decision Making
Sayamol Panseeta; Richard Watson Todd – rEFLections, 2023
This research investigates whether there are relationships between the choices of concept reiterations and interlocutors' orientations, between the choices of concept reiterations and contexts of communication, and between affective connotations of paraphrase, interlocutors' orientations and contexts of communication. The data were collected from…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Repetition, Language Processing, Language Usage
Chueasuai, Pasakara – rEFLections, 2022
With its tourism industry becoming the main source of income of the country, Thailand has put an emphasis on promoting tourist destinations to foreign tourists via different channels including online resources. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), a state agency in charge of tourism promotion, provides useful information of attractions in Thai…
Descriptors: Thai, English, Translation, Tourism
Gambhir, Rittu; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – rEFLections, 2023
The aim of this study is to analyze spoken linguistic features of three-minute startup pitches. Linguistic features analyzed included discourse markers, dysfluency, modality, numeral phrases, pronouns, reduced forms, repetitions, rhetorical questions, vague expressions, and vocatives. The corpus is comprised of 92 startup pitches delivered in real…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse, Entrepreneurship
Raksangob Wijitsopon – rEFLections, 2025
In the age when environmental sustainability is among the chief concerns and goals of communities around the world, a number of linguistic studies have been conducted to illuminate the roles of language in protection and destruction of ecological systems. Most of the studies, however, focus on written and/or formal discourses. The present study…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Conservation (Environment)
Rungrojsuwan, Sorabud – rEFLections, 2022
Effective communication is one of the most important factors bringing about people's confidence in the information and its source. Most charismatic leaders employ some particular rhetorical devices to gain people's trust with the ultimate goal of bringing peace and prosperity to the nation. The present study aimed at extracting some linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Leadership Styles, Speeches, Foreign Countries
Palayon, Raymund T.; Todd, Richard Watson; Vungthong, Sompatu – rEFLections, 2022
The language of religious leaders expressed in their sermons characterizes the social characteristics of their groups. Over the past decades, most studies into cults specifically destructive cults and mainstream religion have mainly focused on their social-psychological characteristics with limited applicability to other religious groups. In this…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Factors, Computational Linguistics
Rojanaatichartasakul, Seehhazzakd; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – rEFLections, 2022
Apart from the fact that there are no fixed rules for writing newspaper editorials, there is no single study incorporating both analyses of moves and stance adverbials in online English newspaper editorials from The Bangkok Post in comparison to those from an international online English newspaper from another country. The aims of the present…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Newspapers, Editing, Foreign Countries
Todd, Richard Watson – rEFLections, 2020
Understanding how language is used in specific contexts and the reasons for this can be helped by examining historical change in genres. In this study focusing on business communication, texts serving the same purpose of demanding payment for a debt but separated by 4,000 years are analysed. The ancient text is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet which is…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Business Communication, Language Styles, Contrastive Linguistics
Phanthaphoommee, Narongdej – rEFLections, 2022
The existing literature concerning the translation of political discourse in Thailand remains limited. To encourage more research in this area, this paper proposes a model for analysing the translation of political texts in the Thai context. Drawing upon Munday's (2012, 2018) appraisal approach to translation and Schäffner's (2004, 2012) analysis…
Descriptors: Translation, Political Attitudes, Speeches, Presidents
Malawaet, Napatrapee; Trakulkasemsuk, Wannapa – rEFLections, 2021
The purpose of this study was to compare the discussion sections of research articles in applied linguistics in Thai and international journals. The corpus consisted of 20 English research articles: 10 from Thai journals and 10 from international journals. The adverbials framework of Biber et al. (1999) was employed in this study. The study…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Research Reports
Krawrungruang, Kunyaluck; Yaoharee, Ornkanya – rEFLections, 2018
This study aims to investigate the use of personal pronouns in political speeches made by Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election Debates. The focus is on uses of the first personal pronouns 'we' and 'I' as strategies to express persuasive messages and political ideologies especially the inclusion and exclusion of the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), Political Attitudes, Speeches
Pathanasin, Saranya; Eschstruth, Ian – rEFLections, 2022
The aim of this study is twofold: to analyze politeness strategies in the online conversations of Thai students, and to suggest how this analysis can be applicable to pedagogical practice. A corpus of a 21-month instant online conversation among students and teachers has been analyzed. Throughout the time of data collection, the teachers…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Undergraduate Students, Language Usage, Second Language Learning