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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"contrastive study"”.
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The function of demonstratives in Zulu and English : a contrastive study with pedagogical implications
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A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish
The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. Using a contrastive research …
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To the very End. A contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish translations
The present study is an explorative, corpus-based contrastive study of N-Rhemes in English and Swedish original texts, as well as translations between the two languages. The aim is twofold, to describe the N-Rheme in English and Swedish Fiction and Popular Science texts, and to examine translation …
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Building a narrative text-world through deixis and modality: a contrastive study of Spanish and English
… for maximal comparison of how it is told. The study consists of a corpus of 48 narrations, including 24 English-speakers and 24 Spanish-speakers, within which half of the speakers of each language are from Europe (Britain and Spain) and the other half are from North America (USA and Mexico), …
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Why won't they learn? : a contrastive study of literature teaching in two Cape Town high school classrooms
… is no exception, and students are expected to study novels, poetry and plays as part of their school language curriculum. There are many debates about the best way to teach these texts in the classroom. However what is often overlooked is that reading literature, like reading anything, is …
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Method and scope in cross-cultural speech act research: A contrastive study of requests in Japanese and English
… hearer-oriented, thus vague and indirect, so a study of requests in Japanese should reveal a greater preference for hints. However, since questionnaires do not reflect the negotiated nature of actual interaction, they may not be a valid means of data collection in Japanese. To address these …
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A contrastive study of compliment responses in American English and Thai including the effect of gender and social status
… people respond to compliments. The goal of this study is to determine the extent to which the gender and social status of the complimenter as well as the gender of the receiver account for the choice of strategy Americans and Thais use to respond to compliments.
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
This study identifies and investigates patterns of lexical, cohesive devices in Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes of the research are twofold: first to inform instruction in the writing of …
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A literary perspective on the notion of le hasard in twentieth century France
… This shift in attitude is emphasized through a contrastive study of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son mai tre, Zola's Therese Raquin and Huysmans' A Rebours. The study leads to discussion of the possible sources of this phenomenon as well as implications for the individual and for society.
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Die Eigenschaften der Benennungen und ihr Einfluss auf deren Verwendung am Beispiel der Euro-Währung : Eine quantitative und kontrastive Analyse der Terminologie im Finnischen und im Deutschen
… to a concept system and degree of specialty. The study analyses the actual usage of the designations in texts and the implementation of the designations. The study is an adaptation of a terminometric survey and uses concept analysis and quantitative analysis as its basic methods. The frequency of …
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Les localisateurs dans les constructions existentielles: approche comparée en espagnol, en français et en italien
This dissertation sets out a contrastive study of the most frequent existential presentational constructions in Spanish, French and Italian, respectively hay, il y a and c’è. It is divided into two major parts, both consisting of four chapters. The first part presents a status quaestionis of the …
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Grammatical problems involved in teaching English to speakers of Syrian Arabic
… firstly, satisfactory attitudes to'language study, and, secondly, descriptive material of the language/s concerned upon which textbooks can be based. As a matter of personal choice the linguist may choose to go beyond the normal intra-lingual comparisons of descriptive linguistics to concern …