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Need for speed? Exploring the relative importance of patents and utility models among German firms

2017

Despite the wide use of two-tiered patent systems (patents and utility models (UMs)), there is little empirical evidence about how often UMs are actually used, what kind of firms use them to protect their intellectual property, and how firms rank them relative to patents. We offer such an analysis using data from Germany. We find that larger firms are more likely to use both protection methods. Moreover, a short life cycle of products and services is associated with an increased likelihood to use UMs. The features and functioning of the German UM system are of broader interest because it has been a benchmark for several second tier patent protection systems around the world. peerReviewed

Distinctive Lexical Patterns in Russian Patient Information Leaflets: A Corpus-Driven Study

2019

This methodologically-oriented corpus-driven study focuses on distinctive patterns of language use in a specialized text type, namely Russian patient information leaflets. The study’s main goal is to identify keywords and recurrent sequences of words that account for the leaflets’ formulaicity, and - as a secondary goal - to describe their discoursal functions. The keywords were identified using three methods (G2, Hedges’ g and Neozeta) and the overlap between the three metrics was explored. The overlapping keywords were qualitatively analyzed in terms of discoursal functions. As for the distinctive multi-word patterns, we focused on recurrent n-grams with the largest coverage in the corpus…

Fronteras disciplinarias: pragmática y patología del lenguaje

2002

El estudio de las patologías del lenguaje necesita incorporar planteamientos pragmáticos, preocupados por la eficacia comunicativa. Este trabajo revisa algunas de las premisas habitualmente manejadas en el estudio de las patologías del lenguaje, especialmente las derivadas de planteamientos generativista de corte gramatical, así como los intentos de incorporar enfoques pragmáticos a la descripción y evaluación del habla patológica, y propone una visión cognitivista que sea compatible con la psicología y la lingüística.

Noisy Channel in Language-Pair Phenomena Identification

2014

Patterns of Use of English Synonymous Medical Terms: the Case of Disease and Illness. A Corpus-Based Study

2010

It often happens that terms defined by dictionaries as synonyms have different patterns of use. An example of this phenomenon is represented by the terminological pair disease/illness in medical discourse. The behaviour of these commonly used terms will be an object of discussion in this study. The work is divided into two main sections. The first part takes into account the information included in conventional dictionaries, both bilingual and monolingual, generic and specialized, in order to see if the terms in question are described as perfectly interchangeable or as having different uses depending on the context. Some dictionaries highlight the use, both specific and generic, respectivel…

Baltu filoloģija, 27 (1/2)

2018

Pašvadīta mācīšanās angļu valodas kā svešvalodas skolotāju profesionālās pilnveides sekmēšanai

2018

Maģistra darba galvenais fokuss ir pašvadīta mācīšanās kā būtisks angļu valodas kā svešvalodas skolotāju personīgās labizjūtas, profesionālās efektivitātes un ilgtspējības faktors; tādējādi maģistra darba mērķis ir izzināt pašvadītas mācīšanās kapacitāti, lai sniegtu ieguldījumu angļu valodas kā svešvalodas skolotāju profesionālās pilnveides sekmēšanā. Maģistra darba mērķa sasniegšanai izvēlēta pamatotās teorijas metode; datu vākšanā piemērojot profesionālās pilnveides stratēģisko dokumentu analīzi pašvadītas mācīšanās noteikšanas iespēju noskaidrošanai; septiņas kvalitatīvās intervijas ar svešvalodu skolotājiem Braitonas valodu koledžā (Lielbritānijā), lai identificētu skolotāju pašvadītas…

Reconceptualising the Role of Talk in CLIL

2011

This theoretical paper offers a reconceptualisation of talk in CLIL based on sociocultural and dialogic theories of education. Building on these educational theories and the experiences of an on-going CLIL project, this paper presents a pedagogical model for the navigation of the ‘talkscape’ of the CLIL classroom. This model comprises a total of seven talk-types: organisational, social, critical, expert, exploratory, meta and pedagogic. In addition to these talk-types, the paper introduces the notion of a ‘transitional dynamic’. This notion aims to capture the transition from first language to foreign language use in CLIL both within the context of individual courses and across a broader CL…

Pedagogical approaches for e-assessment with authentication and authorship verification in Higher Education

2019

Checking the identity of students and authorship of their online submissions is a major concern in Higher Education due to the increasing amount of plagiarism and cheating using the Internet. The literature on the effects of e-authentication systems for teaching staff is very limited because it is a novel procedure for them. A considerable gap is to understand teaching staff' views regarding the use of e-authentication instruments and how they impact trust in e-assessment. This mixed-method study examines the concerns and practices of 108 teaching staff who used the TeSLA—Adaptive Trust-based e-Assessment System in six countries: the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Finland and Turkey.…

Teachers’ pedagogical and relational identity negotiation in the Finnish CLIL context

2017

Abstract This study explores the professional identity of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teachers in Finnish primary education. It aims at explaining how CLIL teachers negotiate their pedagogical and relational identity, and how identity agency is exercised in negotiating a more encompassing professional identity. Thematic analysis of thirteen interviews outlines the bi-directional process of identity negotiation between personal and professional resources, and social contexts at work. The results highlight a connection between professional identity and agency, and suggest that identity negotiation is a process of working and sharing with others, but also individually.