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A MOVE STRUCTURE MODEL FOR DENTISTRY RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS: A GENRE-BASED STUDY OF VARIATIONS AND SIMILARITIES IN EIGHT DENTISTRY SUBDISCIPLINES 牙医学研究论文摘要的移动结构模型:基于体裁的牙医学八个分支学科差异与相似性研究

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5817/di2021-1-25

H. Alyousef

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引用次数: 3

THE DISCURSIVE FORMULATION OF BREXIT: DECISION, OPPORTUNITY AND NEEDFUL AGREEMENT 英国脱欧的话语表述：决策、机遇与必要协议

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2021-06-28 DOI: 10.5817/di2021-1-5

Sadiq Almaged

引用次数: 2

PROTEST AMERICAN ENGLISH INFLUENCE OR PROTEST AGAINST IT? CHANGING PREPOSITIONS IN NIGERIAN TWITTER ENGLISH 抗议美国英语的影响还是反对它？尼日利亚TWITTER英语中介词的变化

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.5817/di2020-2-55

Matthias Hofmann

{"title":"PROTEST AMERICAN ENGLISH INFLUENCE OR PROTEST AGAINST IT? CHANGING PREPOSITIONS IN NIGERIAN TWITTER ENGLISH","authors":"Matthias Hofmann","doi":"10.5817/di2020-2-55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/di2020-2-55","url":null,"abstract":"According to Alo and Mesthrie (2008), Nigerian English (NigE) becomes increasingly more influenced by American English (AmE), due to contact with American-trained professionals among other factors (cf. Gut 2008, Jowitt 1991). The online micro-blogging service Twitter offers potential communication with a vast number of English natives around the globe, using English in a vernacular usage domain, among other domains (or genres such as a news tweet vs a private tweet). With its foundation in 2006, Twitter is a new communication technology, which may indicate that it is used predominantly by “younger” urban people, and which may influence linguistic choices. The question I attempt to answer is whether Twitter influences NigE such that the British English (BrE) heritage of the country is contested by AmE influence. In this paper, I focus on the usage of prepositions and orthographic realizations of lemmata ending in -o(u)r, which can be categorized as BrE and AmE origin, respectively, in a NigE Twitter Corpus compiled in 2016-17 (13 mill. words). These features’ frequencies are contrasted with those of the Nigerian component of GloWbE (Davies 2013). Results from chi-squared tests suggest that AmE prepositions increasingly enter NigE Twitter discourse. Differences in spelling tend towards American English, but are not statistically significant. The only exception is the lemma labour, which is more often used in its British English spelling variant (χ2 = 26.30; df = 1; p one-tailed < 0.001).","PeriodicalId":38177,"journal":{"name":"Discourse and Interaction","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44169164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

VERB PATTERNS IN TRIAL DISCOURSE: THE CASE OF I THINK 审判语篇中的动词模式&以《我认为》为例

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2020-12-29 DOI: 10.5817/di2020-2-119

Magdalena Szczyrbak

引用次数: 0

EXPLORING THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION IN LITERARY TRANSLATION: THE TRANSLATOR’S PURPOSE 探索文学翻译中的表演功能&译者的目的

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-12-30 DOI: 10.5817/di2019-2-29

Gabriela Miššíková

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EPISTEMIC STANCE IN THE KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION HEARING: FOCUS ON MENTAL AND COMMUNICATION VERBS 卡瓦诺确认听证会上的认识立场&以心理动词和交际动词为中心

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-12-30 DOI: 10.5817/di2019-2-72

Magdalena Szczyrbak

引用次数: 0

A CORPUS-ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF MODALITY IN SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN NIGERIA 基于语料库的尼日利亚社会转型运动模态批评话语分析

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-12-30 DOI: 10.5817/di2019-2-5

M. Ademilokun

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引用次数: 6

SUBJECT IT-EXTRAPOSITION IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH ARTICLES: SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS 应用语言学研究文章中的主题外置:语义和句法分析

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI: 10.5817/DI2019-1-29

S. F. Ebrahimi, R. Moghaddam

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引用次数: 0

CROSS-CULTURAL VARIATION IN THE EXPRESSION OF PERSUASIVE POWER IN THE GENRE OF TECHNICAL MANUALS: THE CASE OF DIRECTIVES 技术手册文体中说服力表达的跨文化差异&以指令为例

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI: 10.5817/DI2019-1-47

Renata Povolná

{"title":"CROSS-CULTURAL VARIATION IN THE EXPRESSION OF PERSUASIVE POWER IN THE GENRE OF TECHNICAL MANUALS: THE CASE OF DIRECTIVES","authors":"Renata Povolná","doi":"10.5817/DI2019-1-47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2019-1-47","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides a cross-cultural analysis of selected linguistic realizations of persuasion in technical manuals as typical representatives of technical discourse. It aims to identify differences and similarities between the ways persuasive power is expressed in this type of specialized discourse in English and Czech L1 texts. The data comprises manuals to various technical devices and amounts to slightly more than 200,000 words. This specialized corpus (15 manuals in English and 15 in Czech) is assumed to enable the comparison of the ways in which technical communicators express persuasion. The investigation, which is conducted from the perspectives of corpus analysis and discourse analysis, focuses on the ways in which the interactive and dynamic process of persuasion is explicitly manifested: 1. directly (i.e. using directives expressed by imperatives of full verbs, modals of obligation, necessity, prohibition, and predicative adjectives expressing the writer’s judgement of the necessity to perform an action) and 2. indirectly (i.e. using other language means than directives, such as other modals than those related to obligation, necessity or prohibition, conditional clauses, rhetorical questions). The findings are expected to be relevant and applicable in the education domain to raise technical writers’ awareness of directives as useful persuasive strategies suitable for the production of effective well-written technical manuals since their quality including the appropriate degree of persuasiveness can influence prospective consumers to make a purchase of a particular technical device.","PeriodicalId":38177,"journal":{"name":"Discourse and Interaction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45723347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

A LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS OF PATTAYA, THAILAND’S SIN CITY 泰国罪恶之城芭堤雅的语言景观分析

Discourse and Interaction Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI: 10.5817/DI2019-1-75

Keerati Prasert, Pattamawan Jimarkon Zilli

引用次数: 4