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Showing 1 to 20 of 370 for “"Language Use"”.
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Embodied object schemas for grounding language use
… the Object Schema Model (OSM) for grounded language interaction. Dynamic representations of objects are used as the central point of coordination between actions, sensations, planning, and language use. Objects are modeled as object schemas -- sets of multimodal, object-directed behavior …
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Language Use Beyond the Classroom and Learner Autonomy
This dissertation is based on the assumption that language learners have access to sources of potential language learning materials, such as books, films, music, the Internet, etc. available in Hungary. One of the aims was to investigate to what extent students make effective use of these materials …
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Language use and gender in the Italian parliament
… the world justifies the investigation of their language use, in relation to that of their male counterparts. In this project, I analyse the use of three linguistic phenomena: 1. forms of address; 2. Noi forms; and 3. Violence metaphors. The common aim of the investigations into these three …
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Korean emergent bilingual students’ language use and translanguaging
… how emergent bilinguals developed their English language and literacy skills (e.g., Francis, Lesaux, & August, 2006), but very little attention has been given to students' language and literacy development in their heritage language (HL) (August & Shanahan, 2010; Goldenberg, 2011; Shanahan & …
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Language use in the immigration experience : A study on foreign immigrants’ language use in Iceland and how it impacts their experience
… expansion of the EEA. Iceland is now a place of language heterogeneity, with an increasing number of foreign immigrants with various native languages and a heavy influence from English. The literature provides the context of Iceland as an immigration destination and presents previous research on …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… among a corpus of rap lyrics to find their uses and functions. The functions of the allusions, as defined by Leppihalme, 1997, of interest are the puzzle (to identify someone with similar social knowledge), humor, to indicate cultural breadth, and characterization (taking on a character to …
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Does bilingualism confer perspective-taking advantages in language use?
… cognition, focusing on perspective-taking in language processing, a domain which is thought to place particular demands on the executive control system. We conclude that the results of two experiments comparing perspective-taking abilities in monolingual and bilingual adults offer no support …
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Identity and Language Use in Adolescent Latina/o Literature
… how characters in adolescent Latina/o literature use and reflect on both English and Spanish languages, bilingualism and how language use informs a character’s identity. In this thesis a particular emphasis is placed on code switching as a literary device in adolescent Latina/o literature. …
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The Dynamics of Language Use Among Rural and Urban Kenyan Youths
Although indigenous languages do not hold prestigious status in formal domains, I show that they, including Sheng, are viewed as being legitimate by their speakers in the informal domains. In the end I argue that while English is indisputably dominant in the official domains it is not embraced as a …
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The Task Variable in Children's Language Use: Cultural and Situational Differences
A mismatch between the language used at home and that required for success in school is often cited as a possible explanation for the widespread educational failure of lower-class minority children. The belief is that the way language is used in the home systematically places minority children at a …
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Language in medicine: Language use in clinical interactions about medically unexplained symptoms
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A sociolinguistic study of language use and identity amongst Galician young adults
… The study examines the relationship between language and identity amongst Galician students and recent graduates aged 18 to 25 years, looking specifically at the way in which the identity one desires to portray affects one’s linguistic choices, and inversely how one’s linguistic choices …
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Language Use in a Spanish -English Dual Immersion Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
… The findings suggest that students may use more Spanish if teachers monitor them more closely during groupwork and if the school encourages them to develop investments in identities as Spanish-speakers; their proficiency may increase as a result of greater focus on form.
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Language Use Patterns Associated with Borderline Personality Pathology: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
We examined language use in daily lives of people with varying levels of Borderline personality pathology. Borderline pathology is characterized by extreme relational instability, which may be reflected in or influenced by patterns of language use. Although language use profiles are associated with …
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Identity Creation and Power Acquisition Through Language use in Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls
… into how preadolescent and adolescent girls use language to shape their identities and position themselves in stances of social power within their given communities of practice (Bucholtz, 1999). Specifically, it examines how female children participating in 4-H club activities are using …
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Understanding Language Use Patterns of People with Chronic Pain: A Novel Assessment Approach
… chronic pain conditions by using natural language analysis to examine how differences in linguistic style reveal important information related to attentional focus, social connectedness, cognitive bias, and other clinical dimensions in a sample of data collected from a pilot study of …
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Assessing patterns of language use and identity among Cameroonian migrants in Cape Town
This study explored Cameroonian migrants language use and the various language forms they use to manifest their identity. It also dealt with multicultural/multilingual people in an equally multicultural/multilingual society - Cape Town. The study was carried out in the wider and interdisciplinary …
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Talking faces: The contribution of conversational facial signals to language use and processing
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