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Language building in the digital era

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We are leveraging on social media as a part of the tools to add to the word corpus of Dholuo language which is spoken in East Africa

  • Expires after: 01-01-2040
  • Keywords: Wager Dhowa,Language And Culture,Lexicology,Pragmatics

The BE-passive in Gibraltar English

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The study of the BE-passive in Gibraltar English, with a focus on grammatical variation, socio-cultural pragmatics and language contact.

  • Website: view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/marina-perez
  • Expires after: 31-05-2029
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Dialectology,Grammatical Variation,Language Contact,Language Identity,Pragmatics,Sociolinguistics,Synchronic Linguistics,Syntax,World Englishes

Letter writing in Late Modern English

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Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language

  • Website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/about/
  • Expires after: 31-12-2027
  • Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Prescriptivism,Standardization,Variationist Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Correspondence,Pragmatics,Social Network Analysis,Socio-historical Linguistics

English in Late Modern times

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The aim is to take into consideration LModE usage in a range of previously unedited texts, especially as far as popular culture is concerned.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2026
  • Keywords: Historical Pragmatics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Geographical Variation,Early Business Discourse,Early Multimodality,Popular Culture,Entertainment

Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race

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I am a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). My research focuses on negation strategies in oppositional discourse, specifically anti-racist discourse.

  • Expires after: 31-07-2026
  • Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Discourse Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics

Figurative language in Interpreting

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Constructionalizing Conversation: Collaborative and Auto-Insubordination in English Language Podcasts

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My PhD explores language use in podcasts through the lens of Interactional Construction Grammar, focusing on frequently insubordinating words because and which in dialogic and monologic settings.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2025
  • Keywords: Construction Grammar,Conversation Analysis,Insubordination,Pragmatics,Syntax,Spoken Language

Shaping culture and ethnicity through humor: A sociopragmatic analysis of the 21st century migrant comedians in U.S. and Spain

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This predoctoral research project aims to analyze the stand-up comedy genre within verbal humor. It is based on the ICER-UP corpus, containing 20 shows performed by migrants comedians.

  • Expires after: 01-11-2025
  • Keywords: Pragmatics,Discourse Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Cognitive Linguistics

Pragmatics and Discourse

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Pragmatics and Discourse

  • Expires after: 01-04-2023
  • Keywords: Pragmatics,Corpus Linguistics,English,L2 Pragmatics,Pragmatic Information In EFL Textbooks,Contrastive Pragmatics,Compliment Research,Internet Pragmatics,Statistical Methods Of Data Analysis In Applied Li,TEFL,English As A Lingua Franca

The linguistic profile of I think

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Describing synchronic and diachronic structure and use of the comment clause "I think" from phonetics to pragmatics

  • Expires after: 20-11-2021
  • Keywords: Conversation Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Data Analysis With R,Diachronic Linguistics,Grammaticalisation,Discourse-pragmatic,Phonetics,Prosody,Synchronic Linguistics

Transforming Early English

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Historical pragmatics offers a powerful explanatory paradigm for the formal changes medieval English and Scots texts undergo as they are transmitted across time and space

  • Expires after: 31-07-2020
  • Keywords: English Historical Linguistics,History Of Scots,Philology,Historical Pragmatics,Written Language

Pragmatics of fiction

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The language of fiction constitutes a complex and multi-level form of communication that includes communication between author and audience, and depicted communicative events.

  • Expires after: 31-12-2018
  • Keywords: Discourse-pragmatic