Search results for "Sociolinguistic"
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Longitudinal Associations of First-grade Teaching with Reading in Early Primary School
2019
The present study examined the longitudinal associations between first-grade teaching practices and children's reading skills development from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Using the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure (ECCOM), the teaching practices of 32 Finnish teachers were observed in Grade 1. Students' (N = 359) word recognition and sentence reading skills were assessed yearly from Grade 1 to Grade 3. The person-oriented analysis identified three profiles of teaching practices in Grade 1: child-centred teaching style, teacher-directed teaching style, and a mixed child-centred and teacher-directed teaching style. Furthermore, the results showed that children whose Grade 1 teachers used…
An automatic system for helping health consumers to understand medical texts
2015
Medical texts (reports, articles, etc.) are usually written by professionals (physicians, medical researchers, etc.) who use their own language and communication style. On the other hand, these texts are often read by health consumers (as in the case of medical reports) who do not have the same skills and vocabularies of the experts and can have difficulties in text comprehension. To help a health consumer in understanding a medical text, it would be desirable to have an automatic system that, given a text written with medical (technical) terms, translates them in simple or plain language and provides additional information with the same kind of language. We have designed such a system. It …
Linguistic landscapes of a minoritized regional majority: Language ideologies among Hungarians in South-West Slovakia
2016
[Introduction] This article is an investigation of the linguistic situation in South-West Slovakia and its interpretation by local inhabitants through the notion of linguistic landscape (LL hereafter), here understood broadly as texts displayed in visual space.1 This study has two broad aims. Firstly, the general distribution of the languages in the LL of two historically Hungarian villages is established. This distributional picture is compared to (inter)national and local conceptions about the visual use of different languages in South-West Slovakia. Secondly, using an ethnographic approach and making use of the data gathered during one month fieldwork, a set of individual signs and sign …
Sociolinguistic variation of mitigating mechanisms: usage differences according to age and sex
2018
El presente artículo estudia la variación sociolingüística del fenómeno pragmático de la mitigación en las variables sociales de edad y sexo en el corpus PRESEEA-Valencia. En concreto, se centra en las diferencias cuantitativas y cualitativas en el empleo de mecanismos lingüísticos mitigadores y en las funciones de mitigación. Se analiza todo el sociolecto alto (Gómez Molina et alii 2001), que corresponde a 24 entrevistas semiformales (720 minutos), distribuidas proporcionalmente en tres grupos de edad (20-34 años; 35-55 años; 55 años en adelante) y en dos sexos (mujeres y hombres).El total de actos de habla mitigados en el corpus es de 960 y el número de mecanismos mitigadores es de 1838. …
International students' language use and attitudes towards English and Finnish
2014
Vaihto-opiskelu on kasvattanut suosiotaan sekä maailmanlaajuisesti että Suomessa erityisesti korkea-asteen opiskelijoiden keskuudessa. Suomi kohdemaana on hyvä esimerkki siitä, ettei nykyään pääsyy ulkomailla opiskeluun ole välttämättä kohdemaan kielen oppiminen, sillä maahan tullaan yleensä ilman paikallisten kielten osaamista ja opinnot suoritetaan englanniksi. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena oli kuvata, miten kansainväliset vaihto- ja tutkinto-opiskelijat käyttävät englantia, suomea ja muita osaamiaan kieliä Suomessa oleskelunsa aikana. Tarkemmin ottaen pyrittiin selvittämään, missä konteksteissa, mitä varten, keiden kanssa, kuinka usein ja kuinka onnistuneesti kansainväliset opiskelijat …
Kísérlet egy összehasonlító vizsgálatra : a nyelvi tájkép dél-szlovákiai, székelyföldi és kárpátaljai falvakban
2017
A tanulmany hat falu nyelvi tajkepenek altalanos jellemzeset adja, es az eredmenyeket osszehasonlitja egyreszt egymassal, masreszt korabbi, az altalanos nyelvi helyzetet osszefoglalo munkakkal. Egy-egy olyan del-szlovakiai, szekelyfoldi es karpataljai falu kerul bemutatasra, ahol a telepulesen beluli szobeli kommunikacio nyelve egyontetűen a magyar, illetve egy-egy olyan falu, melyet szobeli ketnyelvűseg jellemez. A tanulmany masodik resze a felirattipusokat, ezek ketnyelvűseget elemzi. Vegul osszehasonlitjuk az eredmenyeket azzal az altalanos keppel, amit egyeb szociolingvisztikai kutatasok alapjan alkothatunk az adott regiokban elő magyarok nyelvhasznalatarol. Kulcsszavak: nyelvi tajkep, …
Register Variation in Electronic Business Correspondence
2011
Electronic correspondence is a highly dynamic genre within the business world in which Register Variation (RV) is frequently used as a tool to improve communication but it often can lead to misunderstanding. In order to shed some light on this still unexplored area, the present study firstly offers a practical approach to classify and analyse RV within professional communication. After this, it reviews previous studies on email writing to apply their findings to this approach and, in the third part of the study, a corpus of recent business emails in English is analysed to examine how the key parameters of RV are currently used within this genre. The results will show that, not only the cont…
Verb-Second and (micro)-variation in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties of Northern Italy.
2018
Rhaeto-Romance varieties are the only present-day Romance varieties which exhibit the Verb Second constraint (Benincà 1994, Poletto 2002, Salvi 2010). In this chapter we examine two properties typically ascribed to the Verb Second phenomenon, subject-finite verb inversion and restrictions on the co-occurrence of multiple constituents in the sentence-initial position, in two Rhaeto-Romance varieties spoken in South Tyrol (Province of Bolzano, Northern Italy). We demonstrate that both varieties behave like Verb-Second languages as far as both phenomena are concerned, but exhibit a specific Verb-Second system governed by the interplay between syntactic and discourse constraints which differs f…
Casual, Colloquial, Commonsensical: A News Values Stylistic Analysis of a Populist Newsfeed
2021
This study explores a mediated variety of right-wing populist discourse in the digital context, given the populists’ inclination to bypass legacy media to connect directly to the citizens to garner political support. It analyzes a sample of the Tea Party’s newsfeed headlines posted in the spring of 2019. A corpus of 308 headlines collected according to a “constructed week” formula has been coded first according to selected news values parameters (Bednarek and Caple 2017), and then with respect to stylistic devices operationalized in terms of “casual,” “colloquial” and “commonsensical” expressions. Methodologically, the study aims to combine the perspectives of newsworthiness and stylistics …