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Wiriya Inphen – rEFLections, 2024
This study was designed to investigate the translation of laws from Thai into English with a focus on the use of modal 'shall' in the translations. As the trend of plain legal English continues to rise in the contemporary legal environment, some legal practitioners -- lawyers, judges and legal drafters -- have perceived that the use of the modal…
Descriptors: Verbs, Translation, English (Second Language), Laws
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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
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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)
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Thienthong, Atikhom – rEFLections, 2022
A growing body of research examines attitudes towards English varieties from an impressionistic perspective, but relatively few studies investigate attitudes towards specific standard and variant grammatical features. This study explores the language attitudes of Thai university students and teachers towards standard grammar and its variation in…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Grammar, Teacher Attitudes
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Jaroensak, Tiraporn; Saraceni, Mario – rEFLections, 2019
Globalisation has a great influence on the emergence of English as a lingua franca (ELF), particularly in tourism contexts. This paper reports on a piece of research that investigated variants and coinage in spoken ELF interactions between Thai locals and foreign tourists on Koh Lanta, Krabi. The nature of tourism encounters was brief and…
Descriptors: Tourism, Language Role, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Inkaew, Manachai – rEFLections, 2018
To study the success of an international event handling in Thailand with a focus on the area of mutual communication, this paper aimed to shed light on how English is used as a lingua franca among the local Thai working team and the organizer team who are non-native speakers from different language backgrounds to achieve their mutual understanding…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Competition