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Evaluative language in medical discourse: a contrastive study between English and Spanish university lectures
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2018)
Academic spoken discourse has been a dominant issue for discourse studies researchers for the last 25 years or so. Different spoken academic genres have been analysed ( Swales, 1990 , 2004 ; Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995 ...
Development of discourse-pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom: A mixed method research approach
(Elsevier, 2018)
Research has shown that being multilingual is a valuable asset for learning pragmatics.
By adopting a multilingual turn perspective, this study investigates patterns of
pragmatic development in the multilingual classroom ...
From the Editors. Teaching with technology: integrating new technologies in the language skills
(2017)
Over the last decades, we have witnessed a rapid development of technology in the arena of education in general, and more particularly in the area of second/foreign language (SL/FL) teaching, which is the major concern of ...
Multimodality in medicine: How university medical students approach informative leaflets
(Elsevier, 2018)
This study aims to analyse multimodality in medical leaflets to see how images and
other semiotic modes combine with text-flow, adding meaning to the message and
broadening the communicative spectrum. Traditionally, in ...
Towards a multimodal perspective to assess pragmatics: a study based on complaints-responses to complaints
(UNED. Facultad de FilologíaUniversidad de Sevilla, 2019)
The purpose of this study is to provide insights into pragmatic assessment
in terms of appropriateness from a multimodal perspective at a
conversational level. The study involved the design of a rubric for assessing
pragmatic ...
Conceptual Metaphor in Meditation Discourse: An Analysis of the Spiritual Perspective
(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2020-02)
Meditation has spread beyond the frontiers of religion to go global in other areas of social practice, including secular and spiritual-but-not-religious contexts. Conceptual metaphor, as proposed by Lakoff (1993) has been ...
The use and function of "please" in learners' oral requestive behaviour : a pragmatic analysis
(Universidad de La Rioja, 2009)
The aim of this paper is to focus on “please” as one of the most frequent modifiers used to mitigate the impositive speech act of requesting. However, apart from this main function, scant attention has been paid to the ...
Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation
(De Gruyter, 2013)
The study analyses teenagers’ e-mail requests during academic cyber-consultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants’ perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act ...
The formation of the image of top-ranked hotels through real online customer reviews: a corpus-based study of evaluative adjectives as image-formers/providers
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)
This study is grounded on a corpus-based analysis of evaluative adjectives as hotel image-formers/providers
conducted from a multifaceted yet complementary perspective which departs from the notion of destination
image ...