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Interactive metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English: Evidence from editorials 一、二语英语中的互动元话语——来自社论的证据

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2023-0004

Sharif Alghazo, Khulood Al-Anbar, A. R. Altakhaineh, Marwan Jarrah

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The Directorate-General for Translation’s gender-neutral English guidelines (1998-2022) 翻译总局中性英语指南(1998-2022)

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2023-0001

María López-Medel

{"title":"The Directorate-General for Translation’s gender-neutral English guidelines (1998-2022)","authors":"María López-Medel","doi":"10.2478/topling-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ten years before the European Parliament adopted the Gender-neutral language in the European Parliament multilingual guidelines (2008), the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation had already included a section on this subject in the third edition of its English Style Guide (1998). The original text was later reproduced in other European Union’s style guides, namely the Interinstitutional Style Guide, the European Commission Style Guide and the ephemeral European Commission Guidelines for Inclusive Communication, withdrawn shortly after publication due to political and religious complaints. After a quarter of a century, the guidelines have drifted apart through their respective updates. What are the exact inconsistencies of the current style guides? How do the changes reflect developments in the field of inclusive language? And do the guidelines include gendered terms and expressions relevant for EU linguists? A unified EU policy on linguistic sexism across its languages and institutions expressed in a set of relevant and coherent language guidelines seems vital to enabling and fostering the implementation of non-sexist language as a gender mainstreaming tool in the EU.","PeriodicalId":41377,"journal":{"name":"Topics in Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47493262","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}

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(Sub)cultural specificity of fiction simile and the choice of translation strategy 小说明喻的亚文化特性与翻译策略选择

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0011

A. Martynyuk, E. Akhmedova

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Effects of imitation and self-imitation practice on L2 pronunciation progress 模仿和自我模仿练习对二语发音进步的影响

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0008

E. Kusz

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An investigation into the use of metadiscourse in undergraduates’ abstracts in social sciences 元语篇在大学生社会科学摘要中的运用研究

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0010

Ruonan Lin, G. Al-Shaibani

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Studying the vocabulary of reggaeton song lyrics 学习雷鬼音乐歌词词汇

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0012

P. Vaňková

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Glossing an argument: Reformulation and exemplification in L2 Master’s theses 阐释论点:第二语言硕士论文的重新表述与例证

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0009

Tereza Guziurová

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Forms and functions of self-repetitions in spoken discourse: A corpus linguistics analysis of L1 and L2 English 口语中自我重复的形式与功能——一、二语英语语料库语言学分析

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0007

Ilyas Yakut, Fatma Yuvayapan

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Keep social distance: The linguistic landscape of the major malls in Jeddah amid the COVID-19 pandemic 保持社交距离:新冠肺炎大流行期间吉达主要购物中心的语言景观

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0004

N. Lacsina, Aiden Yeh

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The interpretation module in the framework of the cognitive-discursive model of diachronic plurality in the translation of Shakespeare’s plays 莎士比亚戏剧翻译中历时多元认知话语模式框架下的阐释模块

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Topics in Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/topling-2022-0001

Yana V. Boiko

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