Языкознание и литературоведение список научных статей
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Emerging bilingual speech: from monolingualism to code-switching. A case of young Estonian Russian-speakers
Russian is one of the ‘migrant’ languages spoken in Estonia and it has intensive contacts with Estonian, the majority language. The study is concerned with conversational functions of RussianEstonian code-switching in Kohtla-Järve, which is a specific region in terms of population structure:...
2007 / Anastassia Zabrodskaja -
Ideology and linguistic indices: One incident, multiple interpretations
Language is a crystal being shaped by the society, one of the mechanism through which society reproduces and regulates itself. In fact, language is not simply a tool of communication or a means of passing on information. It is the means of controlling people through imposing dominant ideologies. In ...
2007 / Manizheh Alami -
Effect of proficiency on Taiwanese EFL learners’ pronunciation
In light of the concern in understanding EFL learners‘ learning difficulties in pronunciation teaching, we investigated Taiwanese EFL Learners‘ perceptions on suprasegmentals and segmentals of English. Two research questions were proposed: (1) what are learners‘ difficulties in perceiving the...
2007 / Shu-Chu Chen, Ming-Nuan Yang -
Interlanguage refusals and the initiating acts
In order to find out the complexity of refusals, we investigated cross-cultural similarities and differences of refusal performance by 40 EFL learners and 40 native speakers of American English with the variation of the initiating acts. The two groups of participants were asked to react by writing...
2007 / Shu-Chu Chen, Ming-Nuan Yang -
Gender stereotypes in Malaysian parliamentary debates
This study sets out to examine the level of sensitivity towards gender in political discourse in Parliament in multilingual, multicultural Malaysia. The focus of the study is the choice of lexical words and phrases pertaining to gender stereotypes used by Members of Parliament (MPs) in...
2007 / Maya Khemlani David, Yeok Meng Ngeow -
Endangerment scenario: The case of Yorùbá
Numerous perils, including death, may befall a language and make its growth or relevance somewhat pointless, leading to the ‘birth’ of a population with little regard for their own languages and an untamed interest in a foreign tongue and culture. The Yorùbá language – currently suffering from...
2007 / Adeleke A. Fakoya -
An investigation on junior college students’ learning problems in English-learning programs on the radio
The purpose of the present study was to examine the learning problems encountered by junior college EFL students when listening to English-learning programs on the radio. Specifically, the study also attempted to explore whether the frequency of listening difficulty varied across different school...
2007 / Ming-Nuan Yang, Shu-Chu Chen -
The dictionary consultation behavior of Technology Institute students
Every ESL/EFL learner uses English dictionaries when learning English. An English dictionary provides ESL/EFL learners with opportunities for encountering and acquiring new words. It is apparent that dictionary is a common and indispensable instrument for learning a new language. Therefore, the...
2007 / Ming-Nuan Yang, Shu-Chu Chen -
An emergenist perspective of language origin: the computational modeling of language evolution
The developmental psychology, cognitive sciences, and neurosciences try to understand how language is acquired and processed by humans at present. The researchers in these areas are interested in language origin in order to inform their theories. In addition to these empirical studies, computer...
2008 / Ali Rahimi, Hamzeh Haghighi -
Does length of stay matter? The case of Chinese immigrants' motivation to learn English
Numerous studies have been carried out to investigate motivation; however, no research has been done to evaluate how the length of stay has an impact on the second language learning pattern. This study, therefore, investigated how the length of stay places impact on a group of Chinese immigrant...
2008 / Ruth Ming Har Wong -
Enhancing reading comprehension via instruction of a metacognitive strategy: a case study of Iranian EFL learners
Although many studies have confirmed the importance and usefulness of metacognitive strategies in enhancing reading comprehension, instructing the exact use of these strategies has been a relatively neglected area. There are various reading strategies and in this study, the strategy of scanning,...
2008 / Karen Kow Yip Cheng, Amir Biglar Beigi -
The last frontier in the philosophy of language: implications of ICT for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
The paper argues that the advent of Information Communications Technology (ICT) bears implications for the philosophy of language generally and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) in particular. The paper’s argument is premised on the potential of ICT to provide solutions in digital communication that are ...
2008 / Alex Kasonde -
Veiled trails of threat in the language of advertisements: a discourse analysis of a military job advertisement
The discourse employed in military job advertisements usually resorts to persuasive strategies which are absent in other job advertisements. Lack of public interest for military jobs, especially due to the potential risks inherent in them, obliges the sponsors and producers of such advertisements...
2008 / Biook Behnam, Davud Kuhi -
Derivation of serial verbal constructions
Earlier works failed to account for the derivation of serial verbal constructions. This is because the deletion method adopted could not account for the derivation of the modified serial verbal construction type. In this paper, we employ the Minimalist Framework of generative syntax for the...
2009 / Oye Paul Taiwo -
Discourse strategies and politeness in academic discourse
This paper examines the discourse strategies used in academic discourse in a professional setting. The study analyzes the politeness strategies used to show agreement and disagreement in an academic discourse specifically in an international conference where researchers gather together to share and ...
2009 / Maya Khemlani David -
Grammaticalization of the future markers in Jordanian Arabic
This paper deals with the grammaticalization processes captured in Jordanian and Standard Arabic. The grammaticalization mechanisms, as well as approaches, are analyzed for both Standard and Jordanian Arabic. The issue of grammaticalization directionality is also discussed. We found that We found...
2009 / Sabri Alshboul, Yousef Al-Shaboul, Sahail M. Asassfeh -
Language policy among Somali refugee teenagers in Kenya
Studies on refugees in Kenya have particularly dwelled on human rights violations. Although some of these studies have touched on language matters in the refugee camps, by and large, they have not addressed the issue of how the refugees are coping linguistically in urban areas given that the Kenyan ...
2009 / Phylis Bartoo -
Polysemous usage in domesticated English varieties: A case study of the verb ‘see’ in Nigerian English
The concept of domestication, nativization or localization has been at the forefront in the discussions on non-native varieties of English. Scholars are beginning to draw more attention to how the English language is being adapted to the culture of non-native speakers, while still retaining many of ...
2009 / Rotimi Taiwo -
The relationships between attitude, self-confidence, compensation strategies, teacher evaluation and class evaluation in Iranian university students
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationships between attitudes towards language learning, self-confidence, compensation strategies, teacher evaluation and class evaluation of EFL students in Iran. The study also discusses the variables which affect attitude toward learning English...
2009 / Ali Rahimi, Mohammad Taghi Farvardin -
A communicative and stylistic adaptability of new idioms and idiomatic expressions in Yorubá literary texts
New idioms and idiomatic expressions are quintessentially modern stock expressions that constitute communicative clogs in Yorùbá routine discourses because of their semantic complexity and deviant nature. Existing studies have established their scope of usage in Yorùbá music but have hardly...
2014 / Dayo Akanmu