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Front vowels of Spanish: A challenge for Chinese speakers 西班牙语的前元音:对说汉语的人的挑战

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0230

Yongfa Cao, Dolors Font-Rotchés, Agnès Rius-Escudé

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Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children 爱沙尼亚语儿童引发叙事中指称性的习得

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0187

Reili Argus, Andra Kütt

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“‘Peewit,’ said a peewit, very remote.” – Notes on quotatives in literary translation “‘笨蛋，’一个笨蛋说，声音很遥远。——文学翻译中的引语注释

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0195

N. Vișan

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Productive vocabulary learning in pre-primary education through soft CLIL 基于软CLIL的学前教育生产性词汇学习

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0194

Marta Segura, J. Barón, Helena Roquet

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American Spanish dizque from a Functional Discourse Grammar perspective 从功能语篇语法的角度看美式西班牙语

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0214

H. Olbertz

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Modification and context 修改和上下文

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0206

D. Velasco

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“Establish a niche” via negation: A corpus-based study of negation within the Move 2 sections of PhD thesis introductions 通过否定“建立一个生态位”：基于语料库的博士论文引言Move 2部分中的否定研究

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0190

S. Sun, P. Crosthwaite

{"title":"“Establish a niche” via negation: A corpus-based study of negation within the Move 2 sections of PhD thesis introductions","authors":"S. Sun, P. Crosthwaite","doi":"10.1515/opli-2022-0190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0190","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The past few decades have witnessed an upsurge of scholarly interest in the generic descriptions of PhD theses following Swales’ seminal Genre Analysis. Fitted within the Create A Research Space (CARS) model, the thesis introduction plays a key role in justifying research originality/significance, where novice writers engage with academic communities through “establishing a research territory” (Move 1), “establishing a niche” (Move 2), and “occupying the niche” (Move 3). As the hinge of the CARS model, Move 2 (hereinafter EN) is of strategic importance as it enables writers to “sell” their ideas by pointing to the gap/niche in the “marketplace” of previous research, which is typically realized through the co-occurrences of negation alongside other interpersonal language resources. Negation, as a disclaim marker within Martin and White’s appraisal framework, is a prominent linguistic indicator of EN. Nevertheless, little research has systematically examined the use of negation in ENs of PhD thesis introductions. Accordingly, the study investigated negation via the appraisal framework addressing subtypes of negation (disalignment, cautious detachment, unfulfilled expectation) within ENs in the introduction sections of 120 PhD theses. The results showed that disalignment is the most frequent subtype of negation, while “not” and “no” are commonly used as indicators of negation. Our findings also revealed intriguing co-occurrences of negation sub-categories alongside other relevant appraisal resources. The corpus-informed results are expected to shed light on the nature and practice of PhD theses that educators may take into account during thesis writing instruction.","PeriodicalId":43803,"journal":{"name":"Open Linguistics","volume":"8 1","pages":"189 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45299204","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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Ideophones in Arusa Maasai: Syntax, morphology, and phonetics 阿鲁萨-马赛的方言：句法、形态学和语音学

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0220

Michael Karani, A. Andrason

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Modification in Functional Discourse Grammar: State of the art and issues addressed 功能语篇语法的修饰:现状与问题

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0216

E. Keizer, T. Schwaiger, Elnora TEN WOLDE

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New trends in translation and interpreting studies: Linguistic accessibility in Romania 翻译研究的新趋势:罗马尼亚的语言可及性

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Open Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opli-2022-0217

S. Șimon, Daniel Dejica, M. Fărcașiu, Annamaria Kilyeni

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