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Linguistics
Ivan Lacic
Summary: This paper examines five Croatian maximizers and their semantic differences through statistical analysis and multifactorial methods. The findings shed light on the interaction between these maximizers and adjectives.
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Linguistics
Benjamin Weissman
Summary: Recent research has found that commitment is an important factor in theories of lying, stating that a speaker is considered to have lied only if they are committed to the false content in their speech. This study investigates the relationship between emoji, commitment, and lying through two experiments, and reveals that different emoji have varying levels of commitment. The results suggest that an emoji can be a lie, depending on the speaker's level of commitment to its meaning.
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Kwok-chi Lau
Summary: This study investigates the difficulties encountered in teaching junior secondary science lessons through English in the predominantly Cantonese-speaking context of Hong Kong. The researchers, comprising an educational linguist and a science education specialist, utilized student questionnaires, teacher interviews, and classroom observation to identify these difficulties. They employed genre understandings based on systemic functional linguistics and knowledge of the science curriculum to investigate the issue. Analysis of lesson extracts, teaching materials, interviews, and questionnaires revealed the impact of teaching materials on coherence between curricular objectives and teacher discourse, particularly in terms of complex descriptions affecting student understanding of the lesson.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
(2024)
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Linguistics
Roberto A. Valdeon
Summary: This article tests the vulgarization hypothesis in audiovisual translation by analyzing the practices of male and female translators. The results confirm the hypothesis and show that female translators use more swearwords in the translation of Chicago PD.
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Muhammad Shaban Ra, Rebecca Kanak Fox
Summary: This study explores the importance of a linguistic habitat based on the first language (L1) for understanding environmental catastrophes and finding solutions. The findings show that participants often borrow words and structures that are not directly connected to their first language when describing the natural environment. The study suggests that purposeful ecological language planning and the application of ecological content to local languages can promote deeper understanding at both individual and societal levels.
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Linguistics
Teresa Fanego
Summary: Recent psycholinguistic studies have found an important distinction in narrative discourse between bounded and unbounded language use. Bounded language use is typical of non-English Germanic languages and involves presenting situations holistically, with clauses seen as self-contained units that achieve completion. Unbounded language use groups events into larger complexes of roughly simultaneous events, with each event remaining open when the next one begins. This article expands on this research and suggests that the shift from bounded to unbounded language in English may have been influenced by contact between Old English and Old Norse speakers in the Danelaw area.
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Linguistics
Leonie Cornips, Marjo van Koppen
Summary: This article discusses how to decenter an anthropocentric view in linguistics and uses the interaction between dairy cows and humans as an example to explore how they imbue their interspecies interaction with meaning. The research shows that gaze plays an important role in the interaction, and successful communication requires the human to avoid gaze. The article argues that linguists should go beyond "sound" and "sign" and consider language as a social practice embedded in multimodal interaction.
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Education & Educational Research
Yuan Yao, Shulin Yu, Xinhua Zhu, Siyu Zhu, Wanru Pang
Summary: This study developed a measurement tool for Chinese university English writing teachers' feedback-giving emotions and identified five types of emotions and four groups of teachers. The results also showed that most demographic variables had no correlation with teachers' feedback-giving emotions, except for professional training experience which had minimal influence on teachers' group memberships.
IRAL-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
(2023)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Biru Zhu, Ganqu Cui, Yangyi Chen, Yujia Qin, Lifan Yuan, Chong Fu, Yangdong Deng, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Ming Gu
Summary: Recent research has identified the vulnerability of pre-trained models (PTMs) to backdoor attacks. These attacks involve implanting task-agnostic backdoors in PTMs, allowing control over the model outputs for any downstream task, posing significant security threats. Current backdoor removal defenses are not suitable for PTMs and focus mainly on task-specific classification models. In response, the proposed method introduces a task-agnostic backdoor removal approach for PTMs. Based on the selective activation phenomenon in backdoored PTMs, a simple and effective backdoor eraser is designed, which utilizes a regularization term in an end-to-end pre-training process to remove backdoor functionalities while maintaining normal PTM functionalities. Extensive experiments across different modalities and architectures demonstrate that the method effectively removes backdoors and preserves benign functionalities of PTMs with a small amount of downstream-task-irrelevant auxiliary data.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
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Language & Linguistics
Francesca D'Alfonso
Summary: This article focuses on the third novel of Nino Ricci's trilogy, which explores Italian immigration in Canada. The protagonist, Vittorio Innocente, experiences personal conflicts, psychological trauma, and sexual ambiguities as he searches for his identity. The story centers around Vittorio's return to Italy to meet people who knew him and his incestuous relationship with his half-sister, Rita. Through exploring their mother's past, they decide to end their troubled relationship. The article highlights the protagonist's journey as an intellectual's search for his roots and his attempt to understand his unresolved life and role in Canadian society.
Article
Linguistics
Dominika Skrzypek
Summary: This paper examines the development of the periphrastic passive voice construction in Swedish between 1300 and 1750, and reveals that a new auxiliary verb, bliva, replaces the old auxiliary verb varda after a period of variation. The turning point in the development is found to be between 1450 and 1550.
Article
Linguistics
Andreas H. Jucker
Summary: This paper argues for the distinction between conduct politeness and etiquette politeness, and discusses its importance in politeness theory. The paper analyzes the historical background of politeness in English and provides a case study to illustrate the evolution of this distinction. Lastly, it discusses the paradox of politeness being seen as both positive and negative.
JOURNAL OF POLITENESS RESEARCH-LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR CULTURE
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Violeta Martinez-Paricio
Summary: This paper presents a formal characterization of the prosodic properties of Spanish acronyms for the first time. The stress patterns and prosodic size of Spanish acronyms are investigated through an examination of a dataset and the results of a questionnaire and perception test. The study shows that stress in acronyms follows regular stress patterns and that acronyms are limited to three syllables, which is explained by the theory of layered feet. Additionally, an interesting minimality requirement that applies exclusively to acronyms is discussed.
NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Maria Antonina Obojska, Potheini Vaiouli
Summary: Recent research has found that transnational families use digital media, such as educational apps, videos, and online games, for language learning. Parents have a positive view of digital media for language learning, citing its accessibility and usefulness. However, they also express concerns about its appropriateness and available materials.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM
(2023)
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Psychology, Educational
Barry O'Sullivan
Summary: This paper highlights the rapid changes in technology and partial validation efforts as issues of concern, and suggests important considerations in terms of validation. The author predicts that technology will bring radical changes to the practice of language testing.
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Anna Cichosz, Sylwia Karasinska
Summary: This article traces the development of agency prepositions in Old and Middle English passives, and analyzes them in the context of linguistic changes after the Norman Conquest. The study is based on large corpora and considers all major agency prepositions, examining their usage patterns.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Kathryn Barnes, Cornelia Ebert
Summary: This paper investigates the information status of iconic contributions in spoken language and proposes a new theoretical concept of at-issueness as a gradient category. Factors affecting the information status of iconic contributions are discussed, and a scale for iconic phenomena based on these factors is proposed. By analyzing at-issueness as a gradient property, a nuanced understanding of the interaction between non-at-issue content and at-issue content is achieved, and a new approach to Common Ground updates is presented.
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Kathryn Barnes, Cornelia Ebert
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
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Linguistics
Norbert Corver
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Floris Roelofsen, Jakub Dotlacil
THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS
(2023)
