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Martin, Nelly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explores the relationship between language selection and identity construction in contemporary Indonesia through an examination of the function of English, a language that still receives stigma from many Indonesians and the government, particularly in Indonesian popular texts published after 1998. Utilizing hybrid critical approaches…
Descriptors: Correlation, Indonesian, Social Change, Laws
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Lindahl, Mats Gunnar; Folkesson, Anne-Mari – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Students' learning is assumed to be promoted through peer-group discussion. Most studies show the presence of qualitative improvements in either oral or written reasoning as a result of such interactions. However, knowledge on the relationship between talk qualities and text qualities is scarce. We adopt an explorative design using statistical…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Oral Language, Written Language, Correlation
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Sutton, Paul; Gill, Wendy – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2010
This paper uses a methodology that synthesises an Academic Literacies approach and Critical Discourse Analysis to explore student experiences of feedback on written assessments in two higher education institutions. The qualitative analysis of student interviews is oriented around three topics: (1) the socially situated meaning of feedback; (2)…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Discourse Analysis, Written Language
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Vagle, Wenche – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1991
Small-scale empirical study was conducted of what characterizes morning-magazine radio language and how and why it varies. Results indicated radio language was mixture of spoken and written language, but relationship between amount of discourse planning and type of social interaction was not the same in radio situations as it is in spoken and…
Descriptors: Broadcast Journalism, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Oral Language
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Johnson, Donna M.; Roen, Duane H. – Language in Society, 1992
An analysis of gender differences in the use of compliments in one genre of written discourse is presented based on a set of 47 peer reviews of academic papers written by graduate students in the form of letters. Women are found to make greater use of compliment intensifiers and personal referencing than are men. (49 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Graduate Students, Letters (Correspondence), Peer Evaluation
Fukuda, Takashi – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1992
This paper is an analysis of behavioral texts (speech directed obligatorily to a second person in a communication situation) and a discussion of the persuasive devices employed by the speakers in an effort to effect a change in the listener's behavior. This study deals with two Eastern Bontoc behavioral texts. Several nonlinguistic persuasive…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse, Sociolinguistics
Lillis, Theresa; McKinney, Carolyn – 2003
This workbook for students provides an accessible introduction to a range of ways of analyzing language in context. The workbook can be used in a number of ways, for example, as a student reference text to briefly review a particular kind of language analysis or as a course textbook to introduce students to a variety of approaches to language data…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English, Ethnography
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Biber, Douglas; Hared, Mohamed – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A multidimensional approach analyzes the linguistic characteristics of 26 Somali spoken and written registers. Somali represents a different language type, and no single dimension adequately describes the relations among registers. Findings are related to previous analyses of English, Tuvaluan, and Korean. (27 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Variation
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Akinnaso, F. Niyi – Language and Speech, 1985
Examines the nature of the convergent relationship between formal spoken and written discourse by focusing on three issues: (1) spoken vs. written modes; (2) formal vs. informal discourse; and (3) the relationship between oral ritual communication and written language and between ritual/written communication and everyday colloquial language. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Indigenous Populations, Language Research
Kaplan, Robert B., Ed. – 1984
This volume of the annual review includes introductory remarks by G. Richard Tucker and these papers: "Current Issues in Bilingualism: An Update of Directions in Research" (Braj B. Kachru); "Psycholinguistics: Application. The Writing System as a Native Language for the Deaf" (Danny D. Steinberg); "Sociolinguistics: Theory" (Monica Heller);…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Deafness
Williams, Robert I.; Nattinger, James R. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to locate those measurable criteria of responsiveness to language which have not been utilized to any significant extent in standardized tests. The project involved creating a testing instrument, reviewing of the instrument by a panel of experts, and applying the resultant test to a small population of college…
Descriptors: College Students, Deep Structure, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Mackey, William Francis – 1971
Standard measures and techniques are needed to establish resemblances and differences among languages. A determination of the degree to which one lanquage or dialect differs from another requires the examination of language universals. To study what languages have in common, attention has to be given to the physical, psychological, and social…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Enkvist, Nils Erik – 1974
This paper argues that context is an important factor to be considered in linguistic analysis. Context is defined as the aggregate of linguistic, situational, social and cultural variables that surround linguistic units such as texts, discourses, utterances, words, morphemes, phonemes, sounds, and distinctive features. A "textual…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction
Matras, Yaron, Ed. – 1995
This collection of essays focuses on historical, structural, lexical, and sociological aspects of Romani and its regional variations. The focus is primarily but not exclusively on oral language. Essays include: "On Typological Changes and Structural Borrowing in the History of European Romani" (Vit Bubenik); "On the Migration and…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Etymology
Piper, Alison – 2000
The linguistic behavior of individuals and people in the official literature on lifelong learning (LL) was examined and interpreted in light of the theories of individualization in late modern culture and society, particularly the theories of Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. The analysis was performed to shed light on that literature's ideological…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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