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Kuteeva, Maria; McGrath, Lisa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
We investigate the current position of English in the language ecology of Swedish academia, with a special focus on the humanities. Semi-structured interviews with 15 informants from the fields of Anthropology, General Linguistics and History were carried out to explore how non-native speakers of English experience using academic English in their…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Humanities
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Zinken, Jorg – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper introduces a method for computer-based analyses of metaphor in discourse, combining quantitative and qualitative elements. This method is illustrated with data from research on German newspaper discourse concerning the ongoing system transformations of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Methodological aspects of the research procedure are…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, German, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis