Published in Frontiers in Psychology
With the deepening of cultural integration, people’s demand for English learning is also increasing rapidly. However, traditional teaching methods have certain limitations, and teaching conditions are limited by the slow development of information technology, oral English courses have been shelved and stopped for a long time. With the rapid develop...
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This paper investigates changes in swearing usage in informal speech using large-scale corpus data, comparing the occurrence and social distribution of swear words in two corpora of informal spoken British English: the demographically-sampled part of the Spoken British National Corpus 1994 (BNC1994) and the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2...
When speaking of language, “authenticity” is almost always indissociable from the figure of the native speaker: native English speakers are seen as the unique holders of the ability to produce “genuine” English. In an effort to move past this harmful ideological positioning, this article sets out the case for another marker to be taken as a benchma...
The present study aims at investigating the effect of using the native language as a pedagogic intervention on the complexity of Iranian EFL learners’ English oral productions. A sample of 39 male and female adult English learners of B1 and B2 CEFR proficiency levels was recruited to participate in this study. They were placed into two intact class...
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Engagement can be used to describe and explain the various styles or strategies of intersubjective positioning that have been observed operating recurrently within different discourse domains. Based on the engagement system of appraisal framework, this study offers a contrastive analysis of dialogic contraction and dialogic expansion between Englis...
口語英語において、文中に生起する定形の連結詞は脱落する傾向にある。この現象は、通常、簡潔さを求める情報伝達上の要請に起因すると考えられている。本論文は、コミュニケーション上の簡潔性が損なわれるような効果を持つ、連結詞脱落に課せられた形式的な制約が存在していることを示す。より具体的に述べると、本論文の主な目的は、文中に生起する定形の連結詞の分布が、口語英語において、少なくとも２種類の制約（すなわち、主語に関する制約と述部に関する制約）により規制されていることを論証することである。さらに、これらの制約をより一般的な原理から導出する可能性が論じられる。 / In spoken English, finite copulas at a sentence-medial position tend to...
This book offers a collection of 13 chapters written by 19 international scholars on spoken corpora and variation with different methodological approaches, theoretical stances and analytical treatments of several phenomena in the varieties of contemporary English. These approaches range from descriptive, quantitative, qualitative sociophonetic anal...
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Previous corpus-based research has demonstrated that antonyms co-occur frequently and serve essential functions in discourse. However, these studies are mostly based on written corpus data. Therefore, the present study investigates how antonyms are used in spoken Chinese. Antonyms co-occurring within five turns were manually identified in the Natio...
This paper looks at the grammar of a subset of vowel-zero alternations in English using findings from a large-scale descriptive project on syncope in contemporary spoken English (Carlotti, Mortreux & Turcsan 2009). The data consist of 15 hours of casual conversations representing some 30 speakers illustrating 3 varieties (California, Lancashire & A...
English is vigorously learned in Japan, but the average level of English pro ciency of Japanese students is still low compared to that of other developed countries. This article will consider the purpose and signi cance of learning English for Japanese at the college level, based on the author’s experience, both as a student and a teacher, at Kyoto...
