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The declarative–procedural knowledge of grammatical functions in higher education ESL contexts: Fiction and reality 高等教育ESL语境中语法功能的陈述-程序知识:虚构与现实

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0242

Emad A. S. Abu-Ayyash, Doaa Hamam

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Lithuanian academic discourse revisited: Features and patterns of scientific communication 重新审视立陶宛学术话语：科学传播的特征和模式

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0231

Anna Ruskan, Helen Hint, Djuddah Leijen, J. Šinkūnienė

{"title":"Lithuanian academic discourse revisited: Features and patterns of scientific communication","authors":"Anna Ruskan, Helen Hint, Djuddah Leijen, J. Šinkūnienė","doi":"10.1515/opli-2022-0231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0231","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of academic text construction. Studies of Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian (inter alia) academic discourse have revealed not only the universal features characteristic of many writing cultures, but also unique rhetorical features, typical of only some of them. In this article, we focus on academic discourse investigations in scientific texts written in one of the lesser-studied languages, Lithuanian. We review here studies of Lithuanian scientific discourse and what those studies reveal about the specific features of Lithuanian academic discourse. The first part of the article identifies how rhetorical structures differ between English and Lithuanian academic texts, whereas the second part presents a comprehensive overview of the functional groups of linguistic units, such as metadiscourse markers, stance and engagement markers, and conceptual metaphors, and how these are different or similar to English academic discourse. The overview of the empirical studies shows the current state of knowledge about Lithuanian academic discourse and highlights some of the items that distinguish Lithuanian writing. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of identifying academic writing traditions of other languages to acknowledge diversity.","PeriodicalId":43803,"journal":{"name":"Open Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45640854","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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Restrictions on past-tense passives in Late Modern Danish 晚期现代丹麦语中对过去时被动语态的限制

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0196

Sune Gregersen

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Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian 在反问句和信息请求之间:爱沙尼亚语中一个通用疑问句

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0235

Marri Amon

{"title":"Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian","authors":"Marri Amon","doi":"10.1515/opli-2022-0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0235","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the pragmatic and functional aspects of an interrogative question pattern in Estonian: questions introduced by the adjective huvitav (‘interesting’). Despite appearances, this question is usually not used to elicit an answer in an information request. Instead, its uses vary from self-addressed to rhetorical questions, also allowing the addition of a biased (critical, ironical) positioning to the interrogation. It can be related to subjective as well as intersubjective dimensions of language use. Examples primarily from two corpora are discussed: fiction texts and their translations (Estonian–French) from the Estonian–French bilingual corpus; excerpts from the debates of the Estonian Parliament; and to a lesser extent, examples from conversations are also included in the analysis. Like similar devices described in other languages (vajon in Hungarian, oare in Romanian), this pattern is impossible to use in situations where a clearly competent addressee is in a position to answer the question directly and the speaker is aware of it; instead, it is especially for cases where, for different reasons, the competence of the addressee is not questioned or challenged directly: asking tentative questions, using rhetorically designed questions to convey critics, or other biased meanings.","PeriodicalId":43803,"journal":{"name":"Open Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46240074","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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Spheres of interest: Space and social cognition in Phola deixis 兴趣领域：Phola指示语中的空间与社会认知

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0215

Manuel David González Pérez

{"title":"Spheres of interest: Space and social cognition in Phola deixis","authors":"Manuel David González Pérez","doi":"10.1515/opli-2022-0215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0215","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After a period of space-centred description of demonstratives, recent research has highlighted the role of attention, psychological proximity and shared knowledge in determining deictic choice. While convincing evidence has been presented that mental states may define deictic reference (e.g. in Turkish, Jahai or Kogi), there is also neuroscientific data suggesting that spatial cognition is often drawn upon in the process and that spatial and attentional perspectives may interact with each other. Pragmatic analysis of deictic usage in some languages (e.g. Yucatec or Lao) suggests that demonstrative systems may respond to multidimensional search spaces that include not only spatial but also embodied, perceptual and social access to referents. On the basis of observational data from Phola, a Tibeto-Burman language of Southwest China, the present article contributes to these research endeavours by explicitly exploring how speaker and addressee demonstratives may independently respond to both spatial and sociocognitive modes of access to a referent. Advancing the notion of spheres of interest as a descriptive heuristics to capture this fluidity, it is shown how deictic choice not only passively reflects aspects of context but also actively projects intersubjective appraisals and expectations onto material and social reality.","PeriodicalId":43803,"journal":{"name":"Open Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43146740","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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Japanese national university faculty publication: A time trend analysis 日本国立大学教师刊物:时间趋势分析

Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0244

Nicole Gallagher, Theron Muller

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Constructing the perception of ‘annoying’ words and phrases in interaction: An analysis of delegitimisation strategies used in interviews and online discussions in Finnish 构建互动中“恼人”词语和短语的感知:芬兰语访谈和在线讨论中使用的非合法化策略分析

Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0248

Katri Priiki

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Attitude dative (dativus ethicus) as an interpersonal pragmatic marker in Latvian 拉脱维亚语中态度与格作为人际语用标记

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0240

Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane

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Latinate terminology in Modern Greek: An “intruder” or an “asset”? 现代希腊语中的拉丁语术语：“入侵者”还是“资产”？

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0233

P. Krimpas

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Tense-aspect conditioned agent marking in Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language of Taiwan 台湾南岛语族卡纳卡纳武语的时向条件因子标记

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0234

Yi-Yang Cheng

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