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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)
Jing Chen; Yi Jiang – SAGE Open, 2025
Anticipatory "it" pattern, which encodes interpersonal stance, plays a crucial role in academic writing. While previous studies have been explored the overuse and the underuse of this pattern among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and published writers, there has been limited exploration of how EFL learners use the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
Tree, Jean E. Fox; Tomlinson, John M., Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
A comparison across spontaneous speech collected in the 1980s and the 2000s reveals a dramatic flip between the use of "said" versus "like" as enquoting devices. The greater use of "like" is reflected in a wide variety of quotation types including reported speech, thoughts, exclamations, and sounds. There is no…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Usage, Semantics, Language Patterns

Johnson, Donna M. – Applied Linguistics, 1992
Reports on an analysis of the forms, strategies, and functions of complimenting in one genre of written discourse. It is argued that writers use complimenting discourse strategies to establish and maintain rapport and to mitigate both global and genre-specific face-threatening acts and that these social purposes help account for both their…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns, Peer Evaluation

Key, Mary Ritchie – 1988
A theory of semantics focusing on relationships between meaning and sound patterns in language evolution is proposed. Using cognate sets from traditional comparative studies of closely-related languages in well-defined language families, the theory addresses the use and shifting of language components. The theory begins with the ego attempting to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Interpersonal Communication
Ishikawa, Minako – 1989
This analysis of repeated utterances in Japanese conversational discourse focuses on repetition as an expression of iconicity. In the analysis of a 30-minute conversation among 4 Japanese speakers, the iconic meanings expressed by both reduplication and conversational repetition are highlighted. The iconicity characteristic of conversational data…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Japanese, Language Patterns
Meehan, Teresa – 1991
In standard American English, the word "like" has several senses associated with it, the earliest of which dates to the 14th century. Some meanings reflect recent developments in the language and suggest that the lexical aspects of the word are changing toward a more grammatical function. Analysis of historical information and data collected in…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Interpersonal Communication
Crismore, Avon – 1982
Like legal language, medical language is a private language, a separate stratum containing some words specially defined for medical purposes, some existing only in the medical vocabulary, and some adding precision or solemnity. These characteristics often cause a breakdown in patient-doctor communication. Analysis of data obtained from prototype…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Research, Comprehension, Interpersonal Communication
Wang, John B. – Selecta, 1985
The ways in which the Chinese have used the homophonic nature of their language to express abstractions in concrete terms, especially to express daily wishes, are described. In Chinese, a value is assigned to an object because the pronunciation of the word for the object brings that implied value to the mind of the listener; for instance, vase in…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Auditory Discrimination, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
Orestrom, Bengt – 1982
A study analyzed four dyadic conversations for evidence of the signals operating in the turn-taking process and facilitating the smooth exchange of turns. It found over 20 syntactic, prosodic, and semantic features occurring frequently with turn-taking. The five most significant factors correlating with turn-taking were a prosodically completed…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
Wasson, Christina – 1996
An ethnographic and linguistic study conducted at a high-technology corporation examined decision-making in managerial meetings, focusing on the effects of silences following a proposal on the maker of the proposal. An opinion is that such silences signify a negative evaluation of the proposal, inviting the proposal maker to alter his position.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Meehan, Teresa M., Ed.; Schwenter, Scott A., Ed. – 1993
This volume contains working papers on a variety of topics in linguistics. They include: "A View of Phonology from a Cognitive and Functional Perspective" (Joan Bybee); "The Geography of Language Shift: Distance from the Mexican Border and Spanish Language Claiming in the Southwestern United States" (Garland D. Bills, Eduardo…
Descriptors: Child Language, Geographic Distribution, Grammar, Interpersonal Communication
Hoffer, Bates, Ed. – 1996
Forty-five papers on linguistic theory and language research from the annual conference address these topics: aspects of discourse analysis; agreement languages; grammatical relations; syntax; phonology; grammar; contrastive linguistics; second language learning; syntax; quotations; topic management; aphasia; interpersonal communication; laughter;…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Aphasia, Bilingualism, Black Dialects
Dogancay, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1995
This study analyzed verbal responses of status unequals in situations where a linguistic mistake occurred. Subjects were 80 native Turkish-speaking university students (28 males, 52 females) who participated in role-playing exercises using such situations. Two aspects of the responses were investigated: the semantic and syntactic formulas that…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1996
Discourse strategies used by status-unequal interlocutors expressing disagreement are discussed. The paper focuses on the influence of role relationships on semantic formulas. A comparative study of discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish and North American English in the same speech event is also reported. Data were gathered from…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conflict, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
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