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Penera, Lesley Karen B. – TESOL International Journal, 2021
Anchored on Labov's notion that some linguistic features may exhibit variants among speakers of the same language within the same community as well as on Parker and Riley's language variation theory, this inquiry which employs a qualitative-content [manifest] analysis assumes that "Surigaonon" exhibits some linguistic variations hence…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Banatao, Mary Ann B.; Malenab-Temporal, Conchita – TESOL International Journal, 2018
Students' preferences are being shaped by what they view in advertisements. Hence, this study examined the occurrence of code-switching in Philippine TV advertisements. Particularly, it analyzed syntactic patterns of code-switching, pragmatic/discourse functions and motivations present in the code-switched ads aired from the country's giant TV…
Descriptors: Television, Advertising, Code Switching (Language), Syntax
Jannatussholihah, Siti; Triyono, Sulis – Online Submission, 2019
This research aims to identify the types of interference and factor of interference. The object of this research is the daily conversations of the students at a University in Indonesia. The research focused on English interference that occurs in Javanese Language and Indonesian Language in everyday conversation. Data is obtained by observation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indonesian, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Gray, Bethany; Geluso, Joe; Nguyen, Phuong – ETS Research Report Series, 2019
In the present study, we take a longitudinal, corpus-based perspective to investigate short-term (over 9 months) linguistic change in the language produced for the spoken and written sections of the "TOEFL iBT"® test by a group of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners in China. The goal of the study is to identify patterns that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Testing, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency
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Rampton, Ben – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article analyses the styles of English produced by an adult migrant who started to speak the language later in life, and it approaches them from the perspective of quantitative style-shifting and discursive stylization. After defining style and the procedures needed to justify the term "L2," the study describes the focal informant's…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Clarke, Sandra – World Englishes, 2012
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross-generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Social Status, North American English
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MacRuairc, Gerry – Language and Education, 2011
The central role played by language in mediating school experience and the prestige accorded to standard language varieties within the field of education provide the broad rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus-group design, was conducted in two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting "ideal…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Variation, Educational Experience, Elementary School Students
Stokes, Craig R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers representing five categories were run through the interface of the Corpus d'Us del Catala a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns
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Giannoni, Davide Simone – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2008
English has gradually become the lingua franca of medical publications and conferences across Europe, with scholars from "smaller" languages opting for English because of the greater scientific impact and prestige associated with a wide international audience; at the same time, however, this transition has disrupted well-established textual…
Descriptors: Sentences, Government Libraries, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Heinz, Bettina; Cheng, Hsin-I; Inuzuka, Ako – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2007
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Collins, Peter C. – World Englishes, 1996
Tests claims regarding "get"-passives in English via interrogation of a set of written and spoken corpora. The data suggest that "get"-passives are often associated with two types of pragmatic implicature. Finally, the corpus provides evidence of three types of variation with 'get'-passives: regional, stylistic, and diachronic.…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Databases, English, Foreign Countries
Cellard, Jacques – Francais dans le Monde, 1982
The concept of journalistic norms and recent French experience with this are reviewed. It is concluded that the press might be a reasonable arbiter between conservative institutional norms and recent rapid change in the French language. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Foreign Countries, French, Journalism
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Nir, Raphael – Language Learning, 1988
Analysis of the communicative setting of televised electoral debates in Israel focused on the stylistic features of the political candidates' discourse. The analysis identified and described such rhetorical strategies as figurative expressions and intensifiers, irony and rhetorical questions, repetition and parallelism, and meta-discoursive…
Descriptors: Debate, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Kirkpatrick, Andy – Open Letter, 1995
Focuses on how people from different cultures organize and sequence texts in different ways and how students write essays in a second language that follow the rhetorical patterns of their native language. The article describes the types of essays Chinese students must write for the university entrance exam in their home country. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Tromel-Plotz, Senta – 1985
Patterns in the speech behavior of women were examined in a number of mixed-sex and single-sex television interviews and discussions, focusing on response to male dominance. Common properties of women's speech style are attributed to their need to respond to the requirements of conversation with men and ensure conversational survival, and are seen…
Descriptors: Broadcast Journalism, Discourse Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries
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