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Akmal, Hilmi; Syahriyani, Alfi; Handayani, Tuty – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aims to investigate the differences in the realization of request speech act between the IEL (Indonesian English Learners) and the AES (Australian English-Native Speakers), as well as explain the factors influencing these distinctions. The descriptive-qualitative method and discourse completion task (DCT) were used to obtain data in…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cross Cultural Studies, Semantics, Task Analysis
Wong, Shelley D. – Journal of Intensive English Studies, 1992
A study investigated proverbial reference in the language of three Chinese graduate students literate in English, contrasting rhetorical use and its contribution to cohesion. Subjects referred to Chinese proverbs frequently, even though they did not help convey meaning well in English, because of emphasis placed on their use in Chinese writing.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cohesion (Written Composition), Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Traits
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Precht, Kristen – English for Specific Purposes, 1998
Distinct regional patterns emerged in a comparison of letters of recommendation from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Eastern Europe. Both quantitative (linearity, symmetry, data integration, advance organizers, sentence types) and qualitative (content) analyses revealed differences, including organizational patterns and methods of…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
Bissonnette, Ronald; Ouellet, Micheline – 1989
The following are English translations of the titles of student research papers from a university conference on linguistics: "The Onomastic Syntagm in Geology: A Comparative Study of English and French"; "Hunting Ideology Through Discourse Analysis"; "Peculiarities of Canadian French (Archaisms and Pronunciation): An…
Descriptors: Body Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Courseware, Cultural Traits