Languages and literature topic list of research papers
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Pattern Grammar: A Corpus-Driven Approach to the Lexical Grammar of English Susan Hunston and Gill Francis (University of Birmingham) Amsterdam : John Benjamins (Studies in corpus linguistics, edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli, volume 4), 2000 , xiii+288 pp; hardbound, ISBN 90-272-2273-8 and 1-55619-398-X , $75.00; paperbound, ISBN 90-272-2274-6 and 1-55619-399-8 , $34.952006 / Christopher Johnson
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MALL Revisited: Current Trends and Pedagogical Implications
Abstract A need for the review of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning emerges to shed light on the future research to prepare, plan, design and integrate a mobile learning based pedagogical framework. This study aims to provide a general but recent...
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“New speakers” of Gaelic: perceptions of linguistic authenticity and appropriateness2015 / Wilson McLeod, Bernadette O’Rourke
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How information structure influences the processing of rhythmic irregularities: ERP evidence from German phrases
Abstract This study explores the influence of focus and givenness on the cognitive processing of rhythmic irregularities occurring in natural speech. Previous ERP studies showed that even subtle rhythmic deviations are detected by the brain if...
2015 / Karen Henrich, Richard Wiese, Ulrike Domahs -
Incorporating multicultural literature in English language teaching curriculum
Abstract This paper aims to examine the ways of incorporating multicultural literary texts in English language teaching curriculum to meet the needs of culturally diverse students. Teachers mainly use traditional reading strategies, therefore, they...
2009 / Behbood Mohammadzadeh -
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, The Languages of the Amazon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxxiii + 514 pp. (Cloth US$160.00)2014 / Eithne B. Carlin
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Levelling and Rule Restructuring in Old English Adjectives2015 / Don Ringe
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Anatolian Default Accentuation and Its Diachronic Consequences2015 / Anthony D. Yates
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Reconstructing Syntactic Variation in Proto-Indo-European2014 / Carlotta Viti
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Cognitive Approach to the Study of Causal Relations
Abstract The article attempts to identify frame model of causality in language consciousness of an individual on the example of the German language. Cognitive approach to the study of causality category in German will highlight its mental nature in...
2014 / Lyazzat Dalbergenova, Sholpan Zharkynbekova, Damira Akynova, Aliya Aimoldina -
Queering gender in contemporary female Bildung narrative2015 / Soňa Šnircová
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Cognate arguments and the Transitivity Requirement in the history of English2015 / Nikolaos Lavidas
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How do Typological Studies Explain the Semantic Changes of English Complex Prepositions?2014 / Kazuyuki Yamaguchi
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Examining Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions of Language and the Development of their Teaching Beliefs Over the Practicum
Abstract With the purposes of discovering their present professional perceptions and evaluating progress in knowledge acquisition, language and teacher metaphors of 26 English teacher candidates were analyzed before and after the practicum. 50% held ...
2014 / Meliha R. Simsek -
The Discourse in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Foreign Language Teaching: The Decline of Language Learner Anxiety by the Usage of Hedges, Particular Modals and Adverbs as in the Usage of these Structures in Mrs. Dalloway for a Specific Purpose
Abstract An already established way, of which frame is limited by the consensus particular to a specific society or rules activated by the way of thinking of that society, is preferably conducted to achieve a demanded goal instead of applying to...
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Are You Sure That This Happened? Assessing the Factuality Degree of Events in Text2012 / Roser Saurí, James Pustejovsky
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The relationship between first language acquisition and dialect variation: Linking resources from distinct disciplines in a CLARIN-NL project
Abstract It is remarkable that first language acquisition and historical dialectology should have remained strange bedfellows for so long considering the common assumption in historical linguistics that language change is due to the process of...
2016 / Leonie Cornips, Jos Swanenberg, Wilbert Heeringa, Folkert de Vriend -
“Real men don’t hate women”: Twitter rape threats and group identity
Abstract On 24th July 2013, feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez's petition to the Bank of England to have Elizabeth Fry's image on the UK's £5 note replaced with the image of another woman was successful. The petition challenged the Bank of...
2015 / Claire Hardaker, Mark McGlashan -
The Effects of Blogging on EFL Writing Achievement
Abstract Few studies were conducted on the effects of blogging specifically on English as a foreign language (EFL) writing achievement. Moreover, those studies did not address the effect of blogs on writing achievement in the Turkish EFL context....
2015 / Emrah Özdemir, Selami Aydın -
A First Approach to the Contrastive and Translatological Study of English Phrasal Nouns (EPN) in the Spanish and German Languages through Corpora
Abstract For various reasons, phrasal nouns —i.e. start-up, spin off, etc.— often integrate as loan words in the lexical systems of languages other than English where, despite their initial opacity, they often end up showing a more specific range of ...
2015 / María Teresa Sánchez Nieto, Juan Miguel Zarandona Fernández