Article
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)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Maretha V. de Jonge, Nikki Nibbering, Iris Brand, Anja van der Voort
Summary: This study examined the differences in computer-mediated communication between individuals with selective mutism and typically developing adolescents. The results showed that individuals with selective mutism used both verbal and written communication less frequently, especially in the school context. These findings highlight the importance of addressing not only speaking behavior but also written communication and computer-mediated communication in the diagnosis and treatment of selective mutism.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Jincheng Wu, Cecilia Guanfang Zhao, Xiaofei Lu, Tan Jin
Summary: This study examines the rhetorical functions and phrase-frames of commentaries on visuals in social science research reports. The findings have implications for English for specific purposes programs.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
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.
Article
Linguistics
Wei Wang, Eniko Csomay
Summary: This study examines the extent to which phraseological configurations in TED talks encode the five facets of proximity, using Hyland's (2010) proximity as a conceptual framework and lexical bundles as an analytical lens. The findings reveal that TED talks not only communicate knowledge in a layman's version, but also facilitate audience comprehension and mitigate speaker-audience asymmetry, demonstrating both a democratic means of communication and a promotional agenda similar to advertising.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Ikuya Aizawa
Summary: This study investigates the changes in perceptions of transitional challenges faced by Chemistry learners studying through English-medium instruction (EMI) in a Japanese university. The findings suggest that English proficiency alone is not sufficient for a successful transition into EMI, and other factors play crucial roles. The study emphasizes the need for ongoing support to help students navigate transitional challenges and discusses implications for language support, EMI curriculum planning, and future research directions.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
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.
Article
Linguistics
Thi Van Anh Dang, Penny Haworth, Karen Ashton
Summary: This article reports on the beliefs about English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching of three Vietnamese pre-service teachers over a six-month period. The findings provide fresh insights into how these beliefs may change over time, offering implications for teacher educators and researchers interested in pre-service teachers' belief change.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
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.
Article
Linguistics
Haiyang Sun, Xinyuan Mei, Honghui Zhang
Summary: This study examines the rhetorical features of News & Views (N&V) articles in different disciplinary groups and reveals variations at the step level. N&V articles in natural sciences (NS) and social sciences (SS) share similar moves and steps, while N&Vs in technology and engineering (TE) exhibit unique stylistic characteristics. These findings have significant implications for training and teaching article review writing, particularly in relation to disciplinary contexts.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Review
Linguistics
Yuting Lin
Summary: This study analyzes the linguistic and rhetorical features of authors' rebuttal letters (ARLs) in response to journal reviewers. The findings show that authors' stance deployment varies between different sections of ARLs, and attitude markers, boosters, and self-mentions are more frequent in ARLs compared to research articles. Authors also tend to hedge criticisms instead of expressing total disagreement with reviewers and emphasize the positive aspects of the paper. The study's findings are of interest to ESP teachers and novice researchers seeking a better understanding of ARLs.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Audrey J. Dsouza, Vasupradaa Manivannan, Santosh Maruthy
Summary: The purpose of this study was to explore clients' expectations from stuttering therapy in the Indian context. The findings suggest that selecting personalized goals and techniques during therapy is necessary to improve client satisfaction.
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
(2024)
Article
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)
Article
Linguistics
Edison Bicudo
Summary: Researching how people assign meaning to life situations is a longstanding challenge in sociology. This paper combines sociological inquiry and insights from cognitive linguistics to explore the role of schema in human experiences. The study identifies that society's understanding of advanced therapies is influenced by two different schemata.
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
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)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Giulia Sulis
Summary: Given the complex language repertoire of students in Austrian schools, this study aims to understand their practices, attitudes, and beliefs towards multiple languages. The findings reveal the complexity of learners' multilingual lives within and beyond the classroom, as well as the interconnections between these domains. The study also sheds light on how students' engagement with different languages outside the classroom can support their learning in the English classroom, and the language learning opportunities they perceive in multiple contexts.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Communication
David M. Markowitz, Jeffrey T. Hancock
Summary: Humans and AI both have a truth-bias, believing that most information is true.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Sergio Osorio, Benjamin Straube, Lars Meyer, Yifei He
Summary: This study investigates the impact of gestures on lexical retrieval and semantic prediction during the processing of naturalistic multimodal stimuli. The results suggest that co-speech gestures have a modulatory effect on word frequency and surprisal, facilitating lexical retrieval and potentially semantic prediction.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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
Education & Educational Research
Haijing Zhang, Fangwei Huang
Summary: This study found that online environment factors have a significant impact on CSL learners' willingness to communicate in Chinese as a second language. Perceived group interaction and online learning enjoyment mediated the relationship between teachers' enthusiasm and willingness to communicate in L2, with group interaction playing a more vital role. Additionally, gender, weekly self-online learning time, and learning achievement moderated these relationships.
LANGUAGE TEACHING RESEARCH
(2023)
