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“Finishing One Big Adventure in Order to Embark on Another”: Exploring University Research Blogs “完成一次大冒险，开始另一次大冒险”:探索大学研究博客
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-30 DOI: 10.18778/1731-7533.17.3.03
Renáta Tomášková
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引用次数: 1
In-Service Primary School Teachers’ Account of Phonetically Difficult Words in English as a Foreign Language 在职小学教师对外英语语音难词的叙述
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0018
Oleksandr (Alexander) Kapranov
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引用次数: 1
English for European Communication and Tourism: Focus on Pragmatic Competence 欧洲通信与旅游英语:注重语用能力
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0016
Agata Klimczak-Pawlak
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引用次数: 0
Metaphors and Legal Language: A Few Comments on Ordinary, Specialised and Legal Meaning 隐喻与法律语言:普通意义、专门意义与法律意义之评析
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0013
Sylwia Wojtczak, I. Witczak-Plisiecka
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引用次数: 4
Vowel Perception and Transcription Trainer for Learners of English as a Foreign Language 对外英语学习者的元音感知与转录训练
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0014
Šárka Šimáčková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský
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引用次数: 0
English as a We-Code: Form and Function of English in Facebook Status Updates of Non-Native Female and Male Users 英语作为We代码：英语在非本土女性和男性用户Facebook状态更新中的形式和功能
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0015
M. Dąbrowska
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引用次数: 0
”Finishing one Big Adventure in Order to Embark on Another”: Exploring University Research Blogs “完成一次大冒险，开始另一次大冒险”:探索大学研究博客
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0017
Renáta Tomášková
{"title":"”Finishing one Big Adventure in Order to Embark on Another”: Exploring University Research Blogs","authors":"Renáta Tomášková","doi":"10.2478/rela-2019-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2019-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article focuses on blogs related to research activities of the academic community. Research-related blogs as components of university websites have developed into an array of sub-genres shaped by specific foci, their authors and the desired audiences. The data set consists of fifty posts from ten blogs of six universities. Drawing upon Swales’ methodology of genre analysis, the study explores the generic structure of the blog posts, reveals the communicative purposes they can fulfil within the landscape of university websites, identifies significant communication strategies, and explores the roles the blogs may serve in communicating science to the diverse audiences they potentially address. The analysis has shown that the blogs help accomplish the general goals of informing about the university and promoting it providing a personalized view and engaging the reader, manifest loose but recurrent generic structuring, and can be vehicles of knowledge dissemination as well as knowledge construction.","PeriodicalId":38985,"journal":{"name":"Research in Language","volume":"17 1","pages":"253 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45484558","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
Poster, Poster on the Wall, Do you Really Mean It All? 海报，墙上的海报，你真的是认真的吗？
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0010
M. Platonova
{"title":"Poster, Poster on the Wall, Do you Really Mean It All?","authors":"M. Platonova","doi":"10.2478/rela-2019-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2019-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The tendency to create messages using the elements belonging to different semiotic systems shifts our perception of a communicative act, contributing to the establishment of multimodal and intersemiotic communication practice. A visual metaphor is seen as one of the instances of a multimodal and intersemiotic message, which generates a text that is revealed gradually, uncovering numerous layers of meaning encoded within a metaphor and within visual, linguistic, and spatial settings it is placed in. The paper sets out to explore the notion of a visual metaphor and focuses on the application of the visual metaphor ‘global warming’ on posters created for the needs of public awareness campaigns, investigating simultaneous manifestation of iconic and metaphorical mappings in the given visual metaphor.","PeriodicalId":38985,"journal":{"name":"Research in Language","volume":"17 1","pages":"147 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47585028","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
Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English 英语韵律条件音节结构
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0001
Paula Orzechowska, Janina Mołczanow, M. Jankowski
{"title":"Prosodically-conditioned Syllable Structure in English","authors":"Paula Orzechowska, Janina Mołczanow, M. Jankowski","doi":"10.2478/rela-2019-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2019-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the interplay between the metrical structure and phonotactic complexity in English, a language with lexical stress and an elaborate inventory of consonant clusters. The analysis of a dictionary- and corpus-based list of polysyllabic words leads to two major observations. First, there is a tendency for onsetful syllables to attract stress, and for onsetless syllables to repel it. Second, the stressed syllable embraces a greater array of consonant clusters than unstressed syllables. Moreover, the farther form the main stress, the less likely the unstressed syllable is to contain a complex onset. This finding indicates that the ability of a position to license complex onsets is related to its distance from the prosodic head.","PeriodicalId":38985,"journal":{"name":"Research in Language","volume":"17 1","pages":"167 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45836392","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: 3
Polish migrant community in Ireland: the use of Irish English slit-t 爱尔兰的波兰移民社区:爱尔兰英语的使用
Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/rela-2019-0009
Izabela Grabarczyk
{"title":"Polish migrant community in Ireland: the use of Irish English slit-t","authors":"Izabela Grabarczyk","doi":"10.2478/rela-2019-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rela-2019-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In any migratory context individuals are faced with several challenges as a result of having to live in a different geographical location, function in a different cultural setting and use a different language. The migrants’ use of language plays a crucial role in mediation of their identity, especially in the domain of pronunciation (Kobialka 2016). When non-native users of language adapt their speech to resemble that of the host community, it may suggest their strong identification with the target community (Hammer and Dewaele 2015). This papers focuses on the pronunciation patterns among Polish adult migrants living in the west of Ireland. The aim of the study is to investigate the link between positive attitudes of the migrant community towards Ireland, Irish culture and community, their acculturation strategies and language identity, and the tendency to use one of the most characteristic features of Irish English – slit-t. The theoretical framework includes acculturation theory (Berry 2005), social identity theory (Tajfel and turner 1987) and language identity (Block 2007). The qualitative and quantitative analysis of data indicates a certain correlation between the use of Irish English slit-t and the participants’ strategies of acculturation, identity and attitudes to the host community.","PeriodicalId":38985,"journal":{"name":"Research in Language","volume":"17 1","pages":"127 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45967316","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: 1
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