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Samantha Rarrick; Reza Arab – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
We collaborated to investigate humor in the existing corpus of Kere (ISO639-3: sst). This collaboration was a useful test of the Kere corpus and led to the rediscovery of unarchived video recordings, which contained important contextual information. These videos had been deprioritized in the original deposit, but they contained important…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Video Technology, Language Research, Metadata
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Hassouneh, Isra'; Zibin, Aseel – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims to investigate the complaining strategies used by Facebook users on Zain Facebook page (Zain Jordan). It also aims to identify the most and least frequent strategies used by Facebook users and to examine the similarities and differences between complaining strategies found on Zain Jordan and those found in other studies in terms of…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Computer Mediated Communication, Speech Acts, Taxonomy
Rillo, Richard M.; Buslon, Junette B. – Online Submission, 2019
This study reported on the pragmatics of irony in humor in Vice Ganda's conversational jokes as an emerging drift in Philippine witticism. We analyzed a 52-token corpus of conversational witticisms (CWs) of the subject across the forms of media where he delivered this kind of witty and humorous utterances. Through the analyses made, We were able…
Descriptors: Humor, Pragmatics, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
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Dennis, A. A.; Foy, M. J.; Monrouxe, L. V.; Rees, C. E. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Emotion characterises learners' feedback experiences. While the failure-to-fail literature suggests that emotion may be important, little is known about the role of emotion for educators. Secondary analyses were therefore conducted on data exploring 110 trainers' and trainees' feedback experiences. Group and individual narrative interviews were…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Feedback (Response), Interviews, Foreign Countries
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Tsoumou, Jean Mathieu – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth of the English language worldwide. Now more than at any time in linguistic history people are powerlessly assisting the expansion of one global language, English, dominating other languages even in countries, such as Congo-Brazzaville, where its presence was not long ago barely observed. There has…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Usage
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Junmei, Jiang – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2017
Oscar Wilde is one of the most hilarious playwrights in the history of English literature. And 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is his masterpiece. With Wilde's humorous and witty language as the starting point and aided by the concordancing software WORDSMITH TOOLS, a detailed analysis was carried out on this comedy from lexical level and…
Descriptors: Drama, Computational Linguistics, English Literature, Teaching Methods
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Jwa, Soomin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Although significant attention has been devoted to the notion of facework and its functions, facework among L2 speakers, whose cultural backgrounds and language proficiencies vary, has remained unexplored. The present study attempts to explore situations of intercultural communication in which facework is used as a way to remedy moments of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Group Dynamics, Intercultural Communication, Humor