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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"British English"”.
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… disagreement exchanges in Saudi Arabic (SaA) and British English (BrE) casual conversations. It particularly focuses on both pragmatic and structural patterns of naturally-occurring disagreements in the two cultural groups. In addition to examining the variable of cultural background, the impact …
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For fuck's sake: Investigating the affective norms and auditory perception of British English taboo words
… Chapter 2 collates psycholinguistic norms for British English taboo and non-taboo words, and establishes the stability of these ratings in predominantly taboo, and predominantly non-taboo contexts. The results imply that participant ratings are not influenced by the quantity of taboo, or highly …
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The Phonetic Specificity of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition in Their First Year of Life
… first birthday (e.g., Poltrock & Nazzi, 2015), British English-learning infants show an equal sensitivity to consonants and vowels until the age of 30 months (e.g., Floccia et al., 2014). Although the lexical and/or the acoustic-phonetic properties of an infant’s native language have been …
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A cross-linguistic study of requestive speech acts in email communication
… performance converged or differed from that of English Ll participants. Furthermore, in order to account for the ESL participants' possible differential performance from that of native speakers of British English, the study also examined how the candidates' formulations related to their …
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The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 : design, compilation and analysis
… Science at Lancaster University (CASS) and the English Language Teaching group at Cambridge University Press (CUP) have compiled a new, publicly-accessible corpus of spoken British English from the 2010s, known as the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014). The 11.5 million-word …
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The Role of Dialect Words in Children’s Social Decisions
… of two children: one of whom used American English labels for test objects and one of whom used British English labels. After training trials, participants completed eight test trials in which they were asked to infer which target child would use either British or American English labels to …
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A linguistic description of spoken Brunei English in the 1990s
The thesis discusses the variety of English that is spoken today in Brunei Darussalam and assesses its status as a 'New English'. Using a corpus of spoken data which was recorded and transcribed by the author, the thesis attempts to produce an empirically based linguistic description of the …
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Spanish-Creole characteristics in the dialect of people with African origins in Port Limón, Costa Rica
… spoken in the rest of the country because of its British English language influence that came in contact with the local Spanish language. Issues regarding attitude toward this language in Costa Rica are addressed in this project. In the course of time, as with other aspects of the culture, there …
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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature …
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The performance of soft computing techniques on content-based SMS spam filtering
… Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and British English SMS. The performance of each of the technique was compared in terms of True Positive Rate against False Positive Rate, F1 score and Matthews Correlation Coefficient. The results showed that SVM with 150 features outperformed the …
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Adelaide English: Regional Variation in Australian English Phonology
… characteristics in phonology of the Adelaide English when measured against some of the other regional varieties of the Australian English language. Furthermore, the settlement history of South Australia is examined and an integral link between the settlement and the sound features of the …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… also includes comparative analysis of MSA and British English (BE), throughthe interrogation of a multi-genre translational corpus, to examine issues of languagespecificityin the category 'preposition'.The study suggests that MSA prepositions can be understood as a category only …
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Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A Corpus-assisted Study of the Metalanguage of Sarcasm and Irony.
… are used to refer to mock politeness in the (British) English and Italian data. In the second question, I ask how these metapragmatic labels and the behaviours which they describe relate to one another within and across languages. In the third question, I ask what is the relationship between …
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A cross-cultural comparison of evaluation in classical concert reviews in British and Hong Kong newspapers
… employed in classical concert reviews (CR) in British English and Hong Kong Chinese newspapers. It focuses on the uses of praise and criticism of different strength levels, targeting various aspects of the concert. It also explores the views of British and Hong Kong music critics on writing …
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Online sarcasm and its perception by second language learners : the case of Iraqi EFL learners in Iraq and the UK
… investigate how EFL learners recognize written British English sarcasm. For this purpose, an L2 pragmatics study was designed and applied to two groups of L2 learners of English. Another purpose of the study is to pragmatically analyse online sarcasm, and see how it is used and by what features …
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The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture
… of the realisation patterns of apologies in British English and Jordanian Arabic, this study presents an account of politeness phenomena in Jordanian culture as compared to British culture. A comparison is thus made between the British conceptualisation of the pragmatic notions of face and …
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An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… <p>This study made the initial exploration of English major curricula among 101 members of the 2000-2001 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), describing their nature and state and discerning evidence of Christian thought.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Stewart’s (1989) Modified …
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Facilitators and barriers in academic assessment of learners with hearing impairment: a case of examinations council of Zambia
… tools, insistence on use of written standard British English as a communication mode, time limitation, and lack of qualified specialist Hearing Impaired teachers to set test items and mark examinations as well as handling invigilation related challenges of examinations. Arising from these …
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Facilitators and barriers in academic assessment of learners with hearing impairment: a case of examinations council of Zambia
… tools, insistence on use of written standard British English as a communication mode, time limitation, and lack of qualified specialist Hearing Impaired teachers to set test items and mark examinations as well as handling invigilation related challenges of examinations. Arising from these …
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A framework for analysis of authorial identity : heterogeneity among the undergraduate dissertation chapters
… students are often required to write a thesis in English. However, researching writing at undergraduate level has sometimes been undervalued as undergraduates are considered to lack an authorial voice (Helms-Park & Stapleton, 2003; Stapleton, 2002). Based on the premise that every piece of writing …
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