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Standing ‘in’ and ‘out’ from the Crowd in a Small Genre: Proximity and Positioning in Applied Linguists’ Email Signatures 小体裁中的 "入 "与 "出"：应用语言学家电子邮件签名中的接近与定位

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae019

Erhan Aslan, Sylvia Jaworska

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Towards Clarification of the Second Language Learner Engagement Construct: Taking Stock of its Conceptual Overlap and Hierarchical Structure 厘清第二语言学习者的参与结构：评估其概念重叠和层次结构

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae012

Hoi Vo

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Post-Digital Connectivities: Framing Offline Encounters in a Digital Prospection Space 后数字连接性：在数字前景空间中塑造线下相遇

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae008

Agnieszka Lyons, Caroline Tagg

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English in Specialized Communication and its Impact on Spanish Medical Lexicon 专业交流中的英语及其对西班牙语医学词典的影响

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-10 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae007

Jorge M Porras-Garzón

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Inappropriate Identities: Racialized Language Ideologies and Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context 不恰当的身份：留学背景下的种族语言意识形态与社会语言能力

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae003

Devin Grammon

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Managing the Flow of Talk: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Multiword Expression det er sant in L2 Norwegian Interactions 管理谈话流程：挪威语第二语言互动中多词表达 "det er sant "的纵向案例研究

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae006

Paulina Horbowicz, Marte Nordanger

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Beyond the Front Yard: The Dehumanizing Message of Accent-Altering Technology 超越前院：口音改变技术的非人化信息

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae002

Ameena L Payne, Tasha Austin, Aris M Clemons

{"title":"Beyond the Front Yard: The Dehumanizing Message of Accent-Altering Technology","authors":"Ameena L Payne, Tasha Austin, Aris M Clemons","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae002","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, as it relates to the speech and voice recognition industry, has established itself as a multibillion-dollar global market, but at whose expense? In this forum article, we amplify the current critiques of the architectures of large language models being used increasingly in daily life. Our commentary exposes emerging AI accent modification technology and services as agents of racial commodification and linguistic dominance, as it rests on the perceived superiority of standardized US English. We discuss our concern for such services leaching into academia. We argue that this technology follows a standardized language framework, which poses a fundamental problem of being informed by purist monolingual principles. These principles often help to perpetuate and maintain harmful raciolinguistic ideologies that result in language discrimination and the continual framing of the language practices of racially minoritized speakers as deficient. Thus, we write this piece with the intent to expose the fabricated humanity of accent modification technology whose existence perpetuates capitalism’s reliance on dehumanization for economic advancement and the legacy and reproduction of white language superiority.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139568368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories 这个词应该搭配什么？连接叙事故事中的词汇搭配和修辞策略

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amae001

Yishi Jiang, Xiaofei Lu, Fengkai Liu, Jianxin Zhang, Tan Jin

{"title":"What Should Go With This Word Here: Connecting Lexical Collocations and Rhetorical Moves in Narrative Stories","authors":"Yishi Jiang, Xiaofei Lu, Fengkai Liu, Jianxin Zhang, Tan Jin","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae001","url":null,"abstract":"An emerging body of corpus-based genre analysis studies has examined the connection between different types of formulaic language and rhetorical moves in various genres of academic writing. The current study extends this body of research into the understudied genre of narrative stories and the understudied phraseological unit of lexical collocations. Specifically, we compiled a corpus of narrative stories written by expert writers, extracted a list of frequent collocations from the corpus, developed a rhetorical move framework for narrative stories, examined the distribution of rhetorical stages and moves in the corpus, and explored the connection between collocations and rhetorical moves in the corpus. The findings of our research culminated in an online interface for searching the corpus for collocations and exploring their use in sentences realizing different rhetorical stages and moves in context. We discuss the potential pedagogical value of our findings and the resulting online interface for promoting learner awareness of the connection between linguistic features and rhetorical functions in narrative stories in genre-based pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139568361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Problematizing Possible -isms in Adult Second Language Classrooms 成人第二语言课堂中的 "可能-主义 "问题化

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amad085

Nadja Tadic

{"title":"Problematizing Possible -isms in Adult Second Language Classrooms","authors":"Nadja Tadic","doi":"10.1093/applin/amad085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad085","url":null,"abstract":"While addressing issues of prejudice and exclusion is crucial for helping adult second language (L2) learners acquire and critique socio-interactional norms of their pluralistic communities, there is still a lack of work examining how teachers can problematize prejudiced talk when it arises in the classroom. Within the detail-oriented frameworks of conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis, this study examines teacher practices for problematizing students’ hearably prejudiced, stereotypical, or exclusionary talk—that is, students’ possible -isms. Drawing on data from 55 hours of video-recorded English L2 classes in the United States, I explore three problematizing responses to possible -isms: (i) introducing complexities, (ii) offering counter examples, and (iii) treating -isms as absurd. While introducing complexities neutralizes students’ hearable -isms as somehow inadequate, the latter two practices treat the -isms as entirely inaccurate through illustrated and invited corrections. The analysis reveals these practices to be finely attuned to the institutional goals and features of the adult L2 classroom, allowing teachers to incorporate a critical perspective and delicately problematize possible -isms without threatening solidarity with their diverse adult learners.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139110351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Building a Child’s Trust before a Medical Procedure: A Linguistic Case Study 在医疗程序之前建立儿童的信任：语言学案例研究

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Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1093/applin/amad080

Ilse Depraetere, Stéphanie Caët, Sara Debulpaep, Siham Ezzahid, Vikki Janke

{"title":"Building a Child’s Trust before a Medical Procedure: A Linguistic Case Study","authors":"Ilse Depraetere, Stéphanie Caët, Sara Debulpaep, Siham Ezzahid, Vikki Janke","doi":"10.1093/applin/amad080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad080","url":null,"abstract":"When a paediatrician establishes a trusting relationship with their patient, the chance of a positive outcome multiplies. A calm child, who participates fully in the communicative exchange is more receptive to the clinician’s requests and reports weaker sensations of pain. This experience stays with the child, shaping how they approach their healthcare as adults. Our qualitative case study unpacks the linguistic aspects of a 32-minute videoed and transcribed exchange between a paediatrician (co-author) and a five-year-old boy she is preparing for a risky procedure. It asks: what linguistic strategies reduce his anxiety? Non-pharmacological methods are key here, as deep sedation is problematic. Our study explains the communicative techniques that the paediatrician exploits. We identify how they function, and how seemingly disconnected strategies group naturally under a few general principles. This is important for professional development because fewer overarching principles are easier to grasp and subsequently to deploy. Our interdisciplinary approach, which relies on real data, can be replicated and expanded with healthcare professionals to enable them to act concretely on their language productions.","PeriodicalId":48234,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138579897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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