Tag: Language and Linguistics
Closeness lowered discomfort in peer feedback, but anonymity did not
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Study reveals how relationship closeness affects discomfort in peer feedback while maintaining consistent quality across relationship conditions in EFL peer review.
Aksumite-era spelling matches in early Geez manuscripts
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in LinguisticsExplore early Geez orthography in ʔAbbā Garimā Gospels and Aksumite epigraphs. Radiocarbon analysis and guttural-sibilant spelling patterns confirm manuscript dating to Aksumite period.
Manx new speakers disagree on “good” language use
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in LinguisticsAnalysis of language ideologies and attitudes toward morphosyntax among new speakers of Revitalized Manx, examining beliefs about linguistic correctness in minoritized language revitalization.
Newspapers use speech acts to frame immigration differently
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in LinguisticsCorpus analysis of speech acts in U.S. newspaper immigration coverage reveals how constatives, directives, and commissives shape public opinion differentially across liberal and conservative outlets.
Context strongly shapes teachers’ writing feedback practices
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in PedagogyExamine how teachers’ beliefs, institutional contexts, and student demographics shape writing feedback practices across three distinct L2 teaching environments in Canada.
Montague’s shift toward formal natural language analysis
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in LinguisticsExplore Richard Montague’s intellectual shift from skepticism toward pioneering formal semantics for natural language in the late 1960s, reshaping linguistic analysis.
Amharic “heart” is linked to positive emotions
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in LinguisticsCognitive linguistic analysis of Amharic ləbb ‘heart’ reveals systematic metonymic associations with positive emotions and cross-linguistic patterns in body-based emotional conceptualization.
Arabic influence linked to punctuation errors in English writing
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in LinguisticsContrastive analysis of English and Arabic punctuation systems examining interference patterns in Libyan learners’ English writing through mixed-methods error analysis and questionnaire assessment.
Xitsonga address forms vary by social context
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in LinguisticsSociolinguistic analysis of terms of address in Xitsonga literature reveals diverse address forms including kinship terms, nicknames, and teknonyms shaped by social context.
