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Linguistic complexity of public legal information texts for young persons 青少年公共法律信息文本的语言复杂性

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-01-03 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0187

Monaliza Hernandez Mamac

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Media representations of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis 香港外籍家庭佣工的媒体表征:语料库辅助语篇分析

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0084

Yating Yu

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Teacher talk in primary school science: a focus on the exploration phase 小学科学教师谈话:一个重点探索阶段

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0178

Megan Oats, Beryl Exley

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Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations 发展话语评价立场和隐喻的注释协议:理论和方法上的考虑

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0096

Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Paula Pérez-Sobrino

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The creative minds of Arab cartoonists: metaphor, culture and context 阿拉伯漫画家的创造性思维：隐喻、文化与语境

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0100

A. Abdel-Raheem

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The digital approach to semiotics: a systematic review 符号学的数字方法:系统回顾

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0073

Inmaculada Berlanga-Fernández, Everardo Reyes

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The naming of emotions in dispute mediators’ strategic manoeuvring: a case study using a French language corpus 纠纷调解员策略操作中的情绪命名:使用法语语料库的案例研究

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0044

S. Greco, Sara Cigada, Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria

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Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews 构建未来父母适宜性:准养父母在收养评估访谈中的沟通策略

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0061

Madeleine Wirzén

{"title":"Constructing future parental suitability: prospective adoptive parents’ communicative strategies in adoption assessment interviews","authors":"Madeleine Wirzén","doi":"10.1515/text-2021-0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2021-0061","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines how Swedish prospective adoptive parents display parental suitability in assessment interviews with social workers. In adoption assessment interviews, applicants are invited, through question-and-answer sequences, to present their knowledge about adoption-related issues and demonstrate their suitability as future adoptive parents. Adoption applicants are also faced with social workers’ attempts to prepare them for future parenthood with advice and guidance. In this high-stakes interaction, however, guidance might indicate the applicants’ lack of central knowledge or insights, which can have potential face-threatening consequences. The data consist of 36 hours of audio recorded assessment interviews. Using interaction analytical methods, the analysis shows how adoption applicants engage in the multi-layered task of managing social workers’ guidance while also demonstrating parental suitability. Adoption applicants are found to take on the perspectives presented by social workers, and simultaneously to maintain their own standpoint, using a two-step procedure: (i) they eagerly claim their knowledge and align with the social worker, and (ii) they demonstrate their adoption-specific knowledge or personal characteristics that support the presentation of their parental suitability. The findings provide insights into the practice of assessing prospective adoptive parents and contribute to the understanding of how applicants establish their self-presentations as suitable future parents while adjusting to institutional requirements in situ.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45555096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards a new typology of the referential information structure of specificational it-clefts 特定it裂缝指称信息结构的一种新类型

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0081

Charlotte Bourgoin

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Formulaic language in L1 and advanced L2 English speech: multiword structures in the speech of two Swedish groups compared to a group of L1 English speakers 一级和高级二级英语语音中的公式化语言：两个瑞典语组与一组一级英语使用者语音中的多词结构

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI: 10.1515/text-2021-0090

B. Erman, Margareta Lewis

{"title":"Formulaic language in L1 and advanced L2 English speech: multiword structures in the speech of two Swedish groups compared to a group of L1 English speakers","authors":"B. Erman, Margareta Lewis","doi":"10.1515/text-2021-0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2021-0090","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The aim of the study was to compare the use of formulaic language, here called multiword structures, in advanced L2 English speech of two Swedish groups with a group of first language (L1) speakers of English. One Swedish group was resident in London and one in Stockholm, thus implying different degrees of exposure to English. Three categories, notably multiword phrases, multiword utterances and metalinguistic multiword structures, were investigated by comparing quantity and distribution. The groups completed two oral tasks, a role play and a retelling task. The results of the Swedish group resident in London were similar to the L1 English group on all measurements of multiword structures in the role play. In the retelling task multiword phrases were significantly fewer in both second language (L2) groups compared to the L1 English group, although there were L2 individuals within the L1 speaker range. Another question concerned the extent to which the three groups used multiword structures which were equivalents, i.e. transferable between English and Swedish. In the retelling task both Swedish groups produced significantly more equivalents than the L1 speakers. The implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45270268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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