In this article, a tripartite interpersonal model is proposed to analyze academic lectures delivered in English. The model combines two approaches to metadiscourse: the reflexive or narrow approach (Mauranen 1993; Ädel 2006), and the interpersonal or broad approach (Hyland 2005, 2019). The criteria adopted by the reflexive approach were exploited…

This article reports on the peer socialization of gendered Mandarin practices between three American students and their Chinese roommates in a college dorm in China. Gender is often perceived to be a salient identity category among adult L2 learners overseas. Drawing on the language socialization framework (Ochs and Schieffelin 1984), this study…

As demand for English-medium higher education continues to grow internationally and participation in higher education increases, the need for a better understanding of academic writing is pressing. Prior university wide taxonomies of student writing have relied on intuition, the opinions of faculty, or data from course documentation and task…

Previous studies on L2 Japanese sojourners often reported that learners overuse the plain style or haphazardly mix the plain and polite styles upon return. These styles, which are often associated with formal or informal contexts, also index complex social and situational meanings, and native speakers are reported to shift their styles to create…

This paper starts by examining recent work by applied linguists who argue that creativity is not only a property of especially skilled and gifted language users, but is pervasive in routine everyday practice. Also variously addressing literariness, language play and humour, this apparent democratization of creativity contributes to a more general…

Focuses on francophone nurses who were trained to write nursing care plans during their studies in francophone universities in Quebec and were then employed to work in an English-medium hospital in Montreal. Data was gathered through interviews, observation collection of documents, and a formal task. Care plans produced by the new nurses at the…

Discusses how apologies are illuminating sources of information on the sociocultural values of a speech community, including differences between male and female values. These sex differences are examined in the distribution of apologies in order to shed light on the complexities encountered by language learners in acquiring communicative…

Discusses revisions of the New South Wales Police Code of Practice designed to encourage interpreters, improve interviews, and enhance intelligibility of scripted cautions. Each of these issues is framed in terms of a model of applied linguistics in which an issue or problem is defined, a solution is proposed and implemented, and the success of…

Analyzes bilingual dictionaries from eastern bloc countries. Reviews the problems inherent in different treatments of English pronunciation in various bilingual dictionaries. (LMO)