Published in Linguistics Vanguard
In this article we assess the extent to which we can collect plausible data about regional dialect variation using crowdsourcing techniques – the BBC Future Survey – without explicitly gathering any user metadata, but relying instead on background information collected by Google Analytics. In order to do this, we compare this approach with another ...
Published in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Insolvenzrecht
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
This paper applies visual grammar theory to make a multimodal discourse analysis of book covers of the different Chinese versions of Jane Eyre. It illustrates the relationship between the social environment and social changes in Chinese society and culture in relation to an increasing social acceptance of the novel in China. This research not only ...
Published in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B
A highly efficient and green protocol for the synthesis of 3,3′-(arylmethylene)-bis(2-hydroxynaphthoquinone) {3,3′-(arylmethylene)-bis(2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione)} derivatives has been developed. The reaction of 2-hydroxynaphthoquinone (2-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-dione) (2 eq.) and arylaldehydes (1 eq.) in the presence of the dicationic molten sa...
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
The paper is a precis of C. S. Peirce’s semiotic theory of education. It presents this theory of learning and teaching from the perspective of Peirce’s phenomenological categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In the domain of Thirdness, learning is mediation between ignorance and knowledge, new information and old knowledge. Teaching ha...
Published in Linguistics Vanguard
LinguaSnapp is a smartphone application developed to support documentation of linguistic landscapes, especially in multilingual urban settings. Since its launch in Manchester in 2016, bespoke versions have also been created for Melbourne, Jerusalem, St Petersburg and Hamburg. We describe the rationale and the operational setup behind the app, and p...
Published in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Insolvenzrecht
Published in Linguistics Vanguard
This contribution sketches the aims, participant recruitment and methodology of the Sprekend Nederland project, the amount and types of data, the research possibilities they offer and suggestions for similar future projects.
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
Previous research on Chinese tense indicates that Chinese has either null tense or no tense. However, the present study suggests that the conclusions of previous studies regarding Chinese tense are either against the syntactic truth or illogical. The present study provides new evidence to support that Chinese has two independent tense elements, zai...
Published in Linguistics Vanguard
The mobile app Schnëssen establishes a digital and participatory research platform to collect data on present-day spoken Luxembourgish through crowdsourcing and to present the results of data analysis to the general public. Users can participate in different kinds of audio recording tasks (translation, picture naming, reading, question) as well as ...
