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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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John E. Booth – rEFLections, 2024
That a certain class of verb commonly known as 'statives' is undergoing change in terms of the way in which certain verbs of this type are being used in everyday speech is nothing new to the field of linguistics. Much has been written about it, and the author of this paper alone has been preoccupied with the subject for many years now. However,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Usage, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries
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Saranya Pathanasin – rEFLections, 2025
This study approaches multilingualism on Phuket Island by means of a linguistic landscape (LL) analysis. The data in this study consists of 185 photographs of shop signs taken from popular streets on the island. They were analyzed via a mixed-methods approach. It was found that different languages were purposely chosen to indicate or showcase the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Photography, Signs, Ethnic Groups
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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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Wijitsopon, Raksangob – rEFLections, 2021
The present study investigates the Thai quantifier 'laay' ([Thai characters omitted]) and its two major English lexical equivalents: 'several' and 'many', using data from an English-Thai parallel corpus, the Thai and British National Corpora. An examination of the parallel corpus reveals that the quantifier 'laay' has a broad semantic property as…
Descriptors: Thai, Contrastive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, English
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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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Noorashid, Najib; McLellan, James – rEFLections, 2021
This paper highlights the findings of a study into the language use, identity and attitudes of some Bruneian Malay government officers and students living in London. It is found that their allegiance towards the Malay language and Bruneian culture remains strong, despite their living in a largely Anglophone metropolis which requires them to…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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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
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Ayuthaya, Jaruda Rajani Na – rEFLections, 2018
The changing of the English profile to English as an International Language (EIL) has broadened the definition of competent users of English around the world to include the ability to shuffle between English in local contexts (Canagarajah, 2013). However, Thai EFL learners continue to show an inability to understand and use English in…
Descriptors: Singing, Profiles, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction