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Linguistic Jacobinism on French Caribbean Soil: Teachers as Public Policy Engineers in Guadeloupe
The chapter studies linguistic Jacobinism in Guadeloupe and considers teachers as public policy actors. It provides a useful account of linguistic...
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The Spanish “Military Interpreter”: A Practical Application in International Operations Arising from Armed Conflicts
Based on the assumptions that co-regulation, occupational category, and working conditions remain largely ill-defined among interpreting and the...
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Policy Actors and Goals in Negotiation
This chapter pays specific attention to policy actors’ participation in language policy process and the diverse goals they pursue in the EPA...
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Apologies in South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus-Based Study on Indian and Sri Lankan English
Despite notable recent exceptions (for instance Funke, 2020), corpus-based research into South Asian Englishes has so far concentrated on structural...
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CORAA ASR: a large corpus of spontaneous and prepared speech manually validated for speech recognition in Brazilian Portuguese
Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) is a complex and challenging task. In recent years, there have been significant advances in the area. In...
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Live blog summarization
Live blogs are an increasingly popular news format to cover breaking news and live events in online journalism. Online news websites around the world...
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Development and validation of instruments to measure Portuguese third graders’ reasons to write and self-efficacy
There is a growing body of research showing that writers are influenced by motivation-related aspects. This study documents the translation process...
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Develo** the Business English Writing Proficiency Scale
This chapter focuses on how the draft version of a BE writing proficiency scale was developed based on the descriptors that were carefully selected...
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A longitudinal investigation of the double dissociation between reading and spelling deficits: the role of linguistic and executive function skills
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine whether young learners of varying reading and spelling performance, identified in Grade 2, can...
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Recontextualising the Constitutional Agenda in Media Debates in Poland and France
This chapter investigates how the EU constitutional agenda was recontextualised in the Polish and French media debates. The content and discourse...
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Case Study 3: The HSBC Scandal and Its Reporting Across Europe
This case study considers how the HSBC tax-dodging scandal was reported in the components of the AVNews Corpus. Although this news item originates in...
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Morphological awareness and vocabulary predict reading resilience in adults
Resilient readers comprehend written language despite word reading deficits. The reading resiliency framework specifies candidate protective factors...
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Populism Versus Anti-populism in the Greek Press: Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory Meets Corpus Linguistics
Within the scope of the POPULISMUS research project (2014–5), we have engaged in a methodological cross-fertilization between Essex School-inspired...
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Minority Languages and Social Media
Cunliffe provides a detailed overview of the current understanding of the relationship between social media and minority language maintenance and...
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Forschungsstand
In den folgenden fünf Kapiteln werden die für die vorliegende Arbeit ausschlaggebenden Theoriestränge und Perspektiven auf den Komplex des...
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General Conclusions
This chapter summarises the advances brought by the model in the light of the analyses of Chapters 6...
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Ideology in the Act of Meaning
This chapter analyses a news report of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which construes these events as war. The text is examined through Halliday’s three...
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Relations among intrinsic and extrinsic reading motivation, reading amount, and comprehension: a conceptual replication
Children’s motivation to read is a strong predictor of their reading comprehension. However, some recent research has suggested that the relationship...
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Learner Variables and Problems Perceived by Students: An Investigation of a College Interpreting Programme in China
This paper investigates the interplay between learner variables Learner variable/variables and perceptions of problemsPerceptions of problems in a...
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Intellectual Background
To understand the decision in Corbett v Corbett it is important to place it in its intellectual context. This includes a brief survey of mythical and...