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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"lexis"”.
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Words for wood: the lexis of trees in Old English poetry
This thesis examines the words concerned with trees and wood in the Old English poetic corpus. The importance of wood to the daily lives of the Anglo-Saxons and the familiarity with wood which resulted from this is shown to have extended into the vocabulary and used within the poems to develop …
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The 'lexis' of medieval computus in selected Anglo-Latin and Old English prose
… lists rather than any detailed analysis of the lexis. Therefore, an opportunity presented itself to enhance scholarly understanding of the vocabulary used by computus specifically and to add to the body of lexicological scholarship in general. This doctoral dissertation has considered the …
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What Difference Does One Academic Year Make? Features And Development Of International Foundation Students’ Academic Lexis In Assessed Writing At A UK University
… examples, features and development of academic lexis used in UK-based international foundation students’ written assignments and the main contributors to this development. These aims are addressed with the assistance of three tools, namely Text Inspector.com (Bax 2015), AntWordProfiler (Anthony …
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An ethnographic and socio-semantic analysis of lexis among working-class Afrikaans-speaking coloured adolescent and young adult males in the Cape Peninsula, 1963-1990
… into the distinctive, predominantly Afrikaans lexis of adolescent and young adult working-class coloured males in the Cape Peninsula, acquired in social anthropological, psychosocial and sociolinguistic research between 1963 and 1991 (the period of lexical usage is limited to the preceding …
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The Influence of Pretask Instructions and Pretask Planning on Learners' Focus on Form During Task -Based Interaction
… focus. That is, the learners focused more on lexis than morphosyntax irrespective of planning and instruction types, but the difference between lexis and morphosyntax focus was reduced for the specific compared to the general instructions. However, there were no main effects of instructions …
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Madingi dabartinės lietuvių kalbos reiškiniai /
… language is situated by following: popular lexis language expressions: Lithuanian lexis, formations or borrowings made on Lithuanian or international words basis, clippings and fragments of international words, combinations of popular phraseological and steady words, popular syntax’s level …
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A critical and comparative study of the dialectal speech of the Ghawarna community in the Jordan Valley in Jordan
… under the headings of phonology,morphology,lexis and syntax. The dialect is thereafter compared to the neighbouring dialects of townsfolk, country people,and bedouin on the Western and Eastern side of the river Jordan, and also with Syro-Mesopotamian dialects, and the dialect of North …
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The effect of genre-based instruction on academic speech
… frequency changes in the use of target lexis, and (c) genre analysis was used to analyze how the discourse structure of the target genres changed qualitatively. The results indicated that genre-based instruction led to improvements in the participants’ speaking ability. The findings from …
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Элементы яркой разговорной речи в прозе В. Шукшина
… of the “legality" of using’ non-literary lexis in works of belles-lettres has always been contentious. It excites not only linguists, , but also writers and readers. It is the aim of this research to show how, far the use of various groups of vernacular lexis is justified in …
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Lietuvių kultūros realijų pavadinimų perteikimas anglų kalba Lietuvos turizmo informacijos interneto svetainėse /
… tourism information websites is culture-specific lexis. As the goal of tourism information websites is to represent the culture of a country, the translation of such texts is mainly aggravated by the names of cultural realia. The aim of the present Master‘s Thesis is to analyze the meanings of the …
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Vertimo strategijos perteikiant realijų pavadinimus iš vokiečių į lietuvių kalbą /
… that are frequently defined as non-equivalent lexis) occurs. The doctoral theses aim to approach the aforementioned linguistic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective and, during the analysis of the selected sample of culture-bound words, to prove the applied strategies and procedures …
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Estudio preliminar de artrópodos edáficos bajo diferentes condiciones de manejo del suelo en el cantón Shaltipa de la cuenca del lago de Ilopango
… distribución espacial se emplearon los. índices Lexis, K y Morisita (trampa de hoyo); y para diversidad se utilizaron los índices: Margaleff (.1951) , Simpson (1944) , Shannon Weaver (1949) . Se compararon comunidades con los índices de Jaccard (1908), Sorensen (1949) y Sorensen Modificado; y la …
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The Communication of Law in the Digital Environment: Stability and Change Within the Concept of Precedent
… online in databases such as Westlaw and LEXIS, and placing other published precedent online creates an environment in which more law is available and available at an earlier date to researchers than would otherwise be available in traditional print settings. Researchers such as M. Ethan …
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"Do you talk English?": A collocational analysis of "to speak" and "to talk"
… usage. It is proposed that grammar and lexis alone are insufficient in developing linguistic and, subsequently, communicative competence in ESL learners. Therefore, contrastive collocational information is also needed to develop native-like fluency in English. Two particular lexical …
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Array methods in statistics with applications to the modelling and forecasting of mortality
… an additive model of mortality for data with a Lexis triangle structure.
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U.S. Newspapers Coverage of The 2009/10 Healthcare Reform Debate: A Content Analysis.
… related to the topic were retrieved from the Lexis-Nexis database and analyzed. The results showed that overall the healthcare reform debate received substantial coverage in U.S. newspapers; but the major part of the coverage was dedicated to the arguments, protests, and thoughts of people …
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The automatic extraction of linguistic information from text corpora
… various areas of language description, lexis, grammar, and meaning. The aim of these case studies is to see how far we can automate the analysis of different aspects of language, both with data gathering and subsequent processing of the data. The outcomes of the feasibility studies …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… raters’ decisionmaking processes pertaining to lexis in assessing these seven students. These students were randomly selected from the four groups in Phase II. Students’ and raters’ views on vocabulary and speaking were also collected via semi-structured interviews. The findings from the …
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980
… By 1973, an improved system was relaunched as Lexis, a soon-to-be-national legal information retrieval service. Lexis went on to become a staple of American legal practice while OBAR gradually faded out of the picture. This dissertation tells the story of the OBAR system and its promise of …
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A study in product-service systems strategies
… business research tools like Orvis, Hoovers, and Lexis-Nexis. The thesis studies mainly (but not exclusively) publically traded US-based companies with a strong emphasis on the automotive, heavy machinery, and information technology sectors.
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