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Nassif, Lama; Al Masaeed, Khaled – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study examines the multidialectal (i.e. diglossic) practices in the sociolinguistic repertoire of speech productions of 28 L2 Arabic learners who went through training using the integrated approach to learn two varieties of Arabic at the same time: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine Arabic. Specifically, the study investigated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Standard Spoken Usage
Tagliamonte, Sali A. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
The goal of the paper is to demonstrate how sociolinguistic research can be applied to endangered language documentation field linguistics. It first provides an overview of the techniques and practices of sociolinguistic fieldwork and the ensuring corpus compilation methods. The discussion is framed with examples from research projects focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Dialects
Güçlü, Ruhan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Lakoff and Johnson (1980) gave a cognitive point of view to metaphor study explaining that metaphor is not a mere literary stylistic device, rather a tool for conceptualization. According to this view, metaphors are conceptualized in man's mind with regard to source domain and target domain in different types of context. This study is an attempt…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Poetry, Translation, French
Sano, Kyoko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is an interesting emphatic construction (called a "koso -e" construction) in Old Japanese, in which the focus particle "koso" concords with the exclamatory ("-e") sentence ending form. When "koso" focuses on an irrealis/subjunctive conditional clause, the overall sentence expresses a peculiar…
Descriptors: Japanese, Semantics, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages)
Nooshin Shakiba; Karyn Stapleton – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Swearing uses language forms that are taboo and potentially offensive. These are often used for emotional expression. Multilingual research shows that because the first language retains most emotional force (Dewaele [2004]. "The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals." "Journal of Multilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indo European Languages, Native Language, Language Usage
Md Nesar Uddin – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Over the years, a sweeping interest in translanguaging practices and corrective feedback (CF) in parallel has received momentum in instructed SLA research. Whereas previous CF studies focused on CF interactions and factors affecting L2 learning, this study examined how translanguaging intertwined with CF in Arabic as a Heritage Language learning…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marcella Caprario – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication, in which English is used as a common language among interlocutors of different first languages, successful communication often features communication strategies that enhance mutual understanding and relationship management. Although prior research suggests that including such strategies in English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Intervention
Tsaralunga, Inna – Advanced Education, 2019
The article analyses the system of methodological principles employed in the comprehensive study of linguistic variation in diachrony. In particular, the author defines the essence of the scientific principle as a means of linguistic study as well as thoroughly describes the system of methodological principles of a diachronic study of any…
Descriptors: Ukrainian, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Business
Coluzzi, Paolo; Brasca, Lissander; Miola, Emanuele – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Devising a writing system, or graphisation, is a fundamental aspect of corpus planning that no language can take too lightly. This paper begins with a general introduction to graphisation and to Italian regional languages, followed by an analysis of the different orthographies in use so far or proposed for the main regional languages in Italy,…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Case Studies, Italian
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda; Metzger, Thomas – Language Learning, 2019
The current study responds to the call for increased dialogue among different areas of additional language research. Specifically, we bring together learner corpus research and variationist approaches to second language acquisition to advance learner corpus research in two ways: (a) by modeling interlanguage development and variability and (b) by…
Descriptors: Language Research, Error Analysis (Language), Computational Linguistics, Interlanguage
Pan, Jiejing – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on the Communicative Action Theory, intersubjectivity theory and the interpersonal classification of metadiscourse, this study makes a comparison between the source texts and the English-translated texts of Chinese company profiles with a self-built parallel corpus, along the dimensions of lexical variation, lexical density, grammatical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Translation, Computational Linguistics, Classification
Mohammed, Rania – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Multi-word sequences are important components of language because they are building blocks that can be used to create long stretches of discourse. They are word combinations that have particular importance because of their co-occurrence and function in discourse that suggest that they are stored and retrieved from memory as a whole rather than as…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis
Zharkova, Natalia – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The study analysed spectral and tongue shape dynamics of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives produced by ten children learning Scottish English. Synchronised ultrasound tongue imaging data and acoustic data were used to characterise children's productions of the phonemic contrast. Six children had consistently accurate productions of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Diagnostic Tests, Accuracy
Özbay, Ali Sükrü – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2020
English contains a considerable number of lexical combinations with various forms and labels, making it an interesting field of inquiry for researchers. The significance and popularity of support verb constructions (SVC) is that they are used largely by native speakers and include some of the most common words in English but seem to be problematic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Verbs, Native Speakers, English
Tupas, Ruanni – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
Much has been written about the linguistics, pragmatics and politics of the pluralization of English under conditions of colonization and globalization. By and large, however, the focus of the work on World Englishes has understandably been on "Englishes" rather than the "world". This paper explores the theoretical potential of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries