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Vinicius Macuch Silva; Alexandra Lorson; Michael Franke; Chris Cummins; Bodo Winter – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study investigates how quantifiers are used strategically to serve different argumentative goals. We report two experiments on how English speakers describe the results of school exams when being instructed to frame their descriptions either as a good or bad outcome. Experiment 1 shows that participants have clear preferences for specific…
Descriptors: English, Language Usage, Bias, Semantics
Lawley, Grace O.; Bedrick, Steven; MacFarlane, Heather; Dolata, Jill K.; Salem, Alexandra C.; Fombonne, Eric – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Pragmatic language difficulties, including unusual filler usage, are common among children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study investigated "um" and "uh" usage in children with ASD and typically developing (TD) controls. We analyzed transcribed Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) sessions for 182 children…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Usage
Shvanyukova, Polina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article is concerned with the history of "yours sincerely," a popular closing formula in English epistolary discourse. The formula was already used sporadically in the seventeenth century, gradually increased in frequency in the Late Modern period, and was the preferred subscription in English business correspondence by the end of…
Descriptors: Business English, History, Language Usage, Letters (Correspondence)
Akinci Oktay, Suhan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
It is a well-known fact that advice-giving practices may differ from culture to culture. While some societies such as British culture refrain from giving advice, others such as Turkish may prefer to give advice perceiving it as an indication of solidarity. Thus, precautions for preventing this nature of advice is taken by language itself in a…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Speech Acts, Counseling, Computer Mediated Communication
Piñango, Maria M.; Zhang, Muye; Foster-Hanson, Emily; Negishi, Michiro; Lacadie, Cheryl; Constable, R. Todd – Cognitive Science, 2017
We examine metonymy at psycho- and neurolinguistic levels, seeking to adjudicate between two possible processing implementations (one- vs. two-mechanism). We compare highly conventionalized "systematic metonymy" (producer-for-product: "All freshmen read 'O'Connell'") to lesser-conventionalized "circumstantial…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
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
Drunkenmölle, Tomas – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012
In current literature, metaphor is treated as either an instance of implicit comparison or as a nonliteral class-inclusion statement. I will argue that, contrary to these positions, the notions of comparison and class-inclusion are not mutually exclusive in character but rather complementary cognitive concepts which entail one another. While…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis, Semantics, Teaching Methods
Riddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
Cacoullos, Rena Torres; Walker, James A. – Language, 2009
We use the variationist method to elucidate the expression of future time in English, examining multiple grammaticalization in the same domain ("will" and "going to"). Usage patterns show that the choice of form is not determined by invariant semantic readings such as proximity, certainty, willingness, or intention. Rather, particular instances of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, Language Usage, English
Fabiszak, Malgorzata – Language Sciences, 2010
This paper is an application of Robert E. MacLaury's Vantage Theory (VT) to the analysis of real life spoken discourse. It utilizes Dennis R. Preston's (1994) modification of MacLaury's VT. It elucidates how cognitive processes of coordinate selection and combination contribute to the on-line construction of category membership in the abstract…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Self Concept, Discourse Analysis
Winters, Margaret E. – Language Sciences, 2010
Vantage Theory (VT) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) both rely crucially on the cognitive phenomenon of categorization as well as on the semantic/pragmatic notion of participant point of view in making claims about human linguistic production and perception. In this paper these commonalities of commitment are explored, as are the differences in the ways…
Descriptors: Semantics, Old English, Pragmatics, Classification
Stanulewicz, Danuta – Language Sciences, 2010
The Polish set of terms for blue includes, inter alia, the following adjectives: "niebieski" "blue", "blekitny" "(sky) blue", "granatowy" "navy blue", "lazurowy" "azure", "modry" "(intense) blue" and "siny" "(grey) violet-blue". The adjective "niebieski" is the basic term; however, it shares some of its functions with "blekitny", which is…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Negative Attitudes, Color, Semantics
Tribushinina, Elena – Language Sciences, 2010
The central claim of this paper is that Vantage Theory is able to provide a much-needed explanatory account of the seemingly unrelated differences between lexical and morphological antonyms of dimensional adjectives in Slavic languages. In a case study, I compare two antonyms of the Russian adjective "vysokij" "high", a morphologically unrelated…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Russian, Case Studies, Color
Dziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies