As Biber and Gray (2016) show, contemporary academic discourse is structurally compressed at NP level (rather than elaborated) and inexplicit in the expression of meaning. The linguistic features selected for analysis are short passives, which are compressed and inexplicit, and adnominal relative ...
The notion of faithfulness to an original text is one of the most important aspects in presenting others’ discourse especially in the form of direct speech (DS) and direct writing (DW). Although it is often assumed that exact words and expressions of the original discourse are used in direct...
In the present study, two adult L2 populations, Chinese and Dutch speakers, read English sentences that contained novel vocabulary. These contextual exposures were accompanied either by form-focused elaboration (i.e. word-writing) or by meaning-focused elaboration (i.e. actively deriving word ...
The data have accordingly been anonymized, meaning that all proper names used in this article are pseudonyms. The con- versations have been transcribed according to the conventions of Jefferson (Atkinson & Heritage, 1984). From these conversations we selected all requests for confirmation that had ...
(even well-publicized occurrences, some of which I documented in my article), (b) that she believes transwomen are female, such that the descriptor ‘male’ is incorrect (meaning they have ‘female penises’, for example), or (c) that sex does not exist, such that ‘male biology’ and...
LSHSSNoun Phrase Elaboration inChildren’s Spoken StoriesSarita L. EisenbergMontclair State University, Montclair, NJTeresa A. Ukrainet..
In this Explanation and Elaboration document, we explain the meaning and rationale for each checklist item. For each item, we include an example of good reporting and, where possible, references to relevant empirical studies and methodological literature. The PRISMA Statement, this document, and the...
people (meaning the general puplic) dont switch, because they dont know there is anything to switch. let alone knowing they have any options on what to switch to! for a very large chunk of computer users… that may be aware they have a “COM-PU-TER” and they may know where the sta...
For instance, events described as “anticipated” or “unintended” lack specific meaning. The use of ambiguous terminology is problematic and should be avoided. Table 1. Ambiguity of harms related terminology as currently used in publications of randomized controlled trials that should be avoided ...
In the present study, two adult L2 populations, Chinese and Dutch speakers, read English sentences that contained novel vocabulary. These contextual exposures were accompanied either by form-focused elaboration (i.e. word-writing) or by meaning-focused elaboration (i.e. actively deriving word ...