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The LINGUIST List > Discussions on Various TopicsDisc: Help with Public Speaking Issue
My boyfriend is 21 and is an extrovert. He speaks very confidently yet sometimes he has issues with communicating with others (keeping conversation). He explains it as if he has a lump in his throat or as if he’s holding his breath. although he may want to engage and continue conversation with someone, he finds it hard to keep it up, almost as if he is blocking himself. He isn’t nervous or anxious, it’s almost like he doesn’t know what to say next. And he also believes that, although he has a lo
The LINGUIST List > Discussions on Various TopicsStrategies of Adequate Translation of Political Neologisms from English into Russian (Based on New Words Found in the English Mass Media) (СПОСОБЫ ДОСТИЖЕНИЯ АДЕКВАТНОСТИ ПРИ ПЕРЕВОДЕ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ НЕОЛОГИЗМОВ С АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА НА РУССКИЙ (НА ОСНОВЕ МАТЕРИАЛОВ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ СМИ))
SSRN > Cognitive LinguisticsCoordinating Complete Answers: The Case of Tanto-Quanto Conjunction
We discuss a coordination strategy found in Portuguese and Italian which we call Tanto-Quanto Conjunction (TQC). The semantic properties that distinguish this construction from run-of-the-mill and-con - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsTwo types of higher-order readings of wh-questions
Evidence from questions with modals and collective predicates suggests that sometimes wh-questions must be interpreted with higher-order readings. In such readings, questions expect answers naming gen - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsLoose Talk, Scale Presuppositions and QUD
I present a new pragmatic theory of loose talk, focussing on the loose use of numbers and measurement expressions. The account explains loose readings as arising from a pragmatic mechanism aimed at re - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsTowards a uniform super-linguistic theory of projection
Formal semantics/pragmatics has recently seen an upsurge in studying secondary modality content like gestures and facial expressions. Much of this work has focused on how such content projects from un - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SemanticsSpans in South Caucasian Agreement: Revisiting the Pieces of Inflection
I argue that a range of morphological phenomena sensitive to features of multiple arguments in Georgian (South Caucasian) - including Anti-Superiority effects (Bejar 2003), and omnivorous number effec - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxWhy I will not become a corpus linguist The use of introspection data and corpus data in synchronic syntactic research
Not so long ago it seemed unnecessary to motivate the use of what is nowadays called the intuitionist approach to the study of syntax: the study of the internal structure of phrases/sentences with the - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxTheory and predictions for the development of basic morphology and syntax: A Universal Grammar + statistics approach
The key aim of this special issue is to make developmental theory proposals concrete enough to evaluate with empirical data. With this in mind, I discuss proposals from the “Universal Grammar + statis - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
LingBuzz > SyntaxЭйстетвод как успешный проект по сохранению и развитию валлийского языка и культуры. (Eistedvod as a Successful Example of Welsh Policy to Preserve Its Language and Culture)
SSRN > Cognitive LinguisticsDiss: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identity, Investment, and Language Learning in Study Abroad: The Case of Erasmus Students in Finland, Romania, and Catalonia
Existing research on the impact of sojourns abroad on identity and on the relation between study abroad, identity, and language learning shows a variety of, sometimes contradictory, results. While some scholars doubt that study abroad is a long and destabilizing enough type of mobility having a direct impact on the identities of the participants (e.g. Block, 2014), others claim that study abroad can trigger an ‘alteration’ or modification of the self, due to the need to live in a foreign languag
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation AbstractsDiss: Pronouns Raising and Emerging
This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain. The support for pronouns originating in n comes from predicative pronouns, including pronominal relative clauses (1) and depronominalizations (2). (1) he who is without sin (2) That person is a she. I compare predicative pronouns with variable grammatical restric
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation AbstractsDiss: A comprehensive analysis of the parameters in the creation and comparison of feature vectors in distributional semantic models for multiple languages
Measuring the semantic similarity and relatedness of words is important for many natural language processing tasks. Although distributional semantic models designed for this task have many different parameters, such as vector similarity measures, weighting schemes and dimensionality reduction techniques, there is no truly comprehensive study simultaneously evaluating these parameters while also analysing the differences in the findings for multiple languages. We would like to address this g
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation AbstractsIntercultural Communication as a Multi-Level Concept
East and West Relations Bridging. Conference proceeding / Ed by Maura Di Mauro & Yulia Taratuhina – М.: Janus-К, 2019, p. 87-92,
SSRN > Cognitive LinguisticsDiss: Film Annotation for the L2 Classroom: A Tech-Mediated Model for Intercultural Learning
With the fast pace of globalization and the rise of encounters in digital spaces, CALL scholars have become increasingly interested in how digital tools mediate intercultural encounters. However, despite their evident success in connecting students from around the world, current online intercultural exchanges continue to present problems such a promotion of positive experiences over deep intercultural learning and lack of real-life value (O’ Dowd, 2018). In addition, digitally-mediated intercult
The LINGUIST List > Dissertation Abstractsمراتب الاتّساع في الدّلالة المعجميّة: المشترك في العربية، مادّة [عين] نموذجا حوليّات الجامعة التونسيّة، العدد 36، 1995، 173-209 marātibu-l-ittisāʕ fil-dalālati- al- mu؟gamiyya : māddatu ʕayn namūδajan. (Levels of Semantic Expansion in Polysemy: The Case of ʕayn (Eye) In Arabic))
Annales de l’Université Tunisienne, 36-1995, 173-209,
SSRN > Cognitive LinguisticsDisc: Digital Humanities in Turkey (Corpus SIG)
We are two language and literature enthusiasts based in Ankara aiming to employ corpus methods in our research. We have recently published a paper in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158519300402) where we investigated the use of self-mention markers in the doctoral dissertations of literature in the UK and Turkey. Corpus is a collection of electronically stored linguistic data, either written texts or a transcription of rec
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