Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches and brings together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmati... Read More about Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics.
Outputs (194)
Study Skills for Linguistics (2015)
Book
Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (2015)
Journal Article
An investigation of this Romano-British place-name and possible Germanic analogues.
Italian surnames in the Family Names of the United Kingdom project (2015)
Journal Article
An overview of surnames of Italian origin treated in the Family Names of the United Kingdom project.
Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English (2015)
Journal Article
This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models fo... Read More about Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English.
Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies (2015)
Journal Article
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. By looking at both apologies made in everyday conversation and those made by politicians in public, I aim in this paper to provide a full set of felicity conditions for the speech act of apology. I also discuss ho... Read More about Revisiting the apology as a speech act The case of parliamentary apologies.
Bristol vocabulary: A provisional list (2014)
Other
A provisional list of vocabulary strongly connected with, or diagnostic of, the Bristol area.
Lexical richness and accommodation in oral English examinations with Chinese examiners (2014)
Thesis
Abstract
Lexical assessment and lexical accommodation in oral examinations are new research dimensions, which have both theoretical and empirical values, however they are still much neglected. The present research aims to investigate: first, whether... Read More about Lexical richness and accommodation in oral English examinations with Chinese examiners.
Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course (2014)
Journal Article
In the last two and half decades, academic literacy has received considerable attention in tertiary education in several English-medium universities. Consequently, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and analogous writing programs have constantly bee... Read More about Towards a needs analysis of why students in a Ghanaian university fail the academic writing course.
Writing in the workplace: Variation in the writing practices and formality of eight multinational companies in Greece (2014)
Thesis
Workplace writing is a high stakes activity. It constitutes a permanent record of a company’s transactions and this has implications for both the employees involved in the production of documents and also for the company as a whole. Workplace writing... Read More about Writing in the workplace: Variation in the writing practices and formality of eight multinational companies in Greece.
A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symnmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements of the left periphery have mainly su... Read More about Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.
Modality markers and politeness strategies in British and American ambassadorial speeches: A corpus-based approach (2014)
Thesis
This study investigates modality markers used as expressions of politeness in British and American ambassadorial speeches via a corpus-based method. Results of the research reflect the semantic and pragmatic perspectives of modality markers on the th... Read More about Modality markers and politeness strategies in British and American ambassadorial speeches: A corpus-based approach.
Grammatical metaphor in English official documentation: A corpus approach to the Vietnamese translation of nominalisation (2014)
Thesis
This thesis aims to investigate grammatical metaphor in Vietnamese translations of English official documentation. Building on Halliday’s notion of grammatical metaphor and linguistic theories of translation shift, the thesis situates its argument in... Read More about Grammatical metaphor in English official documentation: A corpus approach to the Vietnamese translation of nominalisation.
Family names of the United Kingdom (2014)
Other
Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English (2014)
Journal Article
In the last two decades, the compilation of corpora and the analysis of linguistic phenomena via corpus data have become a fascinating linguistic practice around the world and by this, corpus linguistics is now firmly established as a credible approa... Read More about Language corpora: The case for Ghanaian English.
Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University (2014)
Journal Article
Following the work of Santos (1996), studies on research articles and dissertation abstracts have elicited considerable attention. The present research examines grammatical cohesion in the Language and Literature abstracts of undergraduate dissertati... Read More about Cohesion in the abstracts of undergraduate dissertations: An intra-disciplinary study in a Ghanaian University.
(Im)politeness during Prime Minister's Questions in the U.K. Parliament (2014)
Journal Article
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) is a weekly, half-hour long session in the British House of Commons, which gives backbench Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Leader of the Opposition (LO) the opportunity to ask the Prime Minister (PM) questions on... Read More about (Im)politeness during Prime Minister's Questions in the U.K. Parliament.
Oundle, Northamptonshire (2014)
Journal Article
The name of Oundle, noted earliest as the death-place of St Wilfrid and later of St Cett, and as the burial-place of archbishop Wulfstan of York, has not received a fully satisfactory explanation, despite a wealth of early mentions.
On the diachrony of gender in Asia Minor Greek: The development of semantic agreement in Pontic (2014)
Journal Article
Alongside the syntactic agreement system that it inherited from earlier stages in its history as a Greek dialect whereby targets agree with the morphologically-assigned gender of their controllers (masculine, feminine, neuter), Pontic has developed a... Read More about On the diachrony of gender in Asia Minor Greek: The development of semantic agreement in Pontic.
The name of the Hwicce: A discussion (2013)
Journal Article
This article presents the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon ethnic name Hwicce borne by a people of the south-west Midlands, and reviews previous unsatisfactory attempts to explain it. It appears to be probably of British Celtic origin, and an etymology i... Read More about The name of the Hwicce: A discussion.