Showing papers in "Lingua in 2022"

TL;DR: This article explored how this discursive practice is mediated by metadiscourse, how limitations are rhetorically contextualized and how much these rhetorical investments differ between PhD dissertations and research articles in applied linguistics and found that PhD dissertation writers make more use of frame markers but less use of code glosses, evidentials, and hedges in the acknowledgment of limitations than published writers do in limitations steps.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present an interdisciplinary analysis of the power of swearing, drawing on insights from cognitive studies, pragmatics, communication, neuropsychology, and biophysiology.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the use of six Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features (ag, ja, mos, né, nogal, and sommer) in South African English, with a view to exploring their meanings, frequencies, syntactic positioning, syntactical distribution, collocational patterns, and discourse pragmatic functions.

TL;DR: The idea that human language evolved to modify/change the beliefs and attitudes of other people, in order to make them act in a certain way, is also explored in this paper .

TL;DR: This paper examined linguistic expressions of knowledge emotions found in a corpus of 640 research articles sampled from four disciplines (i.e., Applied Linguistics, Biology, History, and Mechanical Engineering) to understand how these expressions partake in knowledge construction.

TL;DR: The authors investigated symptom-specific metaphors produced by five trauma victims, who were exposed to the 2019-2020 social unrest in Hong Kong and met the diagnostic criteria of acute stress disorder (ASD) as assessed by the Stanford Acute Stress Reaction Questionnaire (SASRQ).

TL;DR: The authors conducted an empirical study of the compositionality of English phrasal verbs (PVs) which makes use of published and newly collected subjective ratings of lexeme "imageability" (i.e., the extent to which a lexeme evokes mental imagery).

TL;DR: The authors analyzes Korean comparatives from a grammaticalization perspective, identifying the source semantics of the comparative markers in contemporary as well as historical data, analyzing the grammaticalisation mechanisms behind their development, creating the conceptual and functional networks among the comparative marker, and comparing the source sources with those attested in other languages.

TL;DR: This paper presented an experimental study of Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of three subtypes of 2-level recursive sequences exemplified with the so-called "recursive relative clauses (RCs)", reanalyzed as the two-level tail-, nested-, and mixed-recursion RC sequences.

TL;DR: This article explored the diachronic change of dependency distance in Modern English with a genre-specific perspective and found that multiple and complex factors may be at work behind the diverging temporal trends of dependency distances in different genres of Modern English.

TL;DR: This article used a register prediction task to evaluate different corpus similarity measures across 39 languages: how well are they able to distinguish between corpora representing different contexts of production, with the same three digital registers shared across all languages: social media, web pages and Wikipedia.

TL;DR: The authors found that retrieval practice is a powerful mnemonic enhancer in promoting L3 vocabulary learning, and it is an effective strategy in learning a new language, but students rarely realize the important role of retrieval practice in foreign language learning.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors address the topic of language for specific purposes (LSP) through the creation and validation of a technical, corpus-based word list in Russian and introduce some methodological innovations in compiling a list of Russian vocabulary for students with a professional interest in economics.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a different approach to conceptualizing language and assessing the concept's applicability to other species, by categorising phenomena through family resemblances and graded typicality of features (as in prototype-based categorisation).

TL;DR: In this article , it has been shown that pitch syntax was once part of a protolanguage designed to communicate internal mental states, and that increased social complexity caused this protology to interact and eventually merge with another protology specialized in communicating propositional meaning.

TL;DR: This paper argued that negation in Japanese can be a lexical adjective and that the lexical verb that selects the negation can be grammaticalized to an aspectual functional category.

TL;DR: This article investigated the developmental trajectory of contrast markers in English across four grade levels to understand a particular aspect of language acquisition, that is expressing various types of contrast, and revealed how frequently and diversely CMs are employed by children and report the differences between the overall use and that of the most frequent CMs across grade levels and types of texts.

TL;DR: The authors found that translational Chinese tends to be simpler than its non-translated counterpart at the lexical level, but not the syntactic level based on part-of-speech entropy, and confirmed the use of entropy as a reliable measure for lexical and syntactic complexity in the field of translation studies.

TL;DR: In this paper , a special hybrid prepositional-postpositional pattern is discussed for disjunctive constructions in Zhoutun, namely, the puʂi -disjunctive construction and the mɤ -imperative construction.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how People's Daily communicated COVID-19 messages on Weibo and found that attitudinal posts were more engaging than non-attitudinal posts.

TL;DR: The authors examined the comparison-and-contrast markers in research articles of applied linguistics and identified three core (Comparative_item, Dimension and Agent) and two non-core (Evaluation and Indication) frame elements.

TL;DR: This paper examined the use of the German deictic expression so (roughly translated into 'like this' in English) accompanied by an embodied action in activities where participants have to jointly accomplish a project.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether and to what extent emigration affects the knowledge of idiomatic expressions in the native language of Dutch and found that when possible effects of age are minimized, only a small difference in idiom knowledge emerges between emigrants and non-emigrants.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how Korean -ki and -m nominalization constructions have come to also express speaker stance, and showed that the inherent semantics of individual nominalization constructs and their syntagmatic relations facilitate the dynamic drifts of the nominalisation constructions from referential to pragmatic uses.

TL;DR: In this article , a non-derivational, functional account of floating quantifiers in Korean is presented, in which the theme-rheme division is orthogonal to the focus property FQs exhibit.

TL;DR: This paper provided a repair-by-deletion/insertion account of the distribution of the copula in AAE, while assuming that T can take a non-verbal predicate phrase as its complement.

TL;DR: The authors identify and discuss a number of epistemological challenges in the study of alternating constructions in natural languages, including the need to distinguish between different types of constructions, rules of grammar and regularities of language use, and various challenges related to assessing correlation and causation.

TL;DR: This article explored how neural machine-translated Chinese-to-English literary texts are organized and developed in terms of discourse coherence using theme-rheme structure in Systemic Functional Linguistics as an analytical framework.

TL;DR: This paper investigated Italian blending from a synchronic perspective, based on data extracted from a dictionary of neologisms attested over the past two decades, and revealed that Italian blends exhibit a wide variety of structures according to the parameters of linearization, shortening, and overlap.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the effects of orthographic and semantic relatedness-to-target of primes on breaking off interocular suppression for Chinese compound words (two characters) presented under continuous flash suppression (CFS).