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• Effects of indirect corrective feedback and teacher encouragement on EFL students’ writing accuracy 2024-12-20
  Abstract This study examines the effects of indirect corrective feedback and positive affective teacher comments on English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ writing accuracy in new writings and revisions. Four intact classes of EFL students (n = 231) were randomly assigned to four groups: (1) Indirect-coded corrective feedback (ICCF), (2) ICCF + positive teacher comments, (3) […]
• Indexing a withdrawal from one’s previously-taken position 2024-12-20
  Abstract Using conversation analysis as the research method, this article investigates what participants do with the multiple saying duì duì duì (‘right right right’) when they take divergent positions in Mandarin Chinese conversation. A participant may deploy duì duì duì to claim recalibrating understanding, which indexes a backdown or withdrawal from a previously-taken position. There […]
• Grounding lists 2024-12-20
  Abstract Drawing on findings from three distinct corpora encompassing interactions in Spanish, Portuguese, and German, this study investigates the role of lists as strategic devices employed by interlocutors in everyday storytellings and positioning activities to establish common ground (CG). Termed ‘grounding lists’, our research identifies them as a distinct communicative practice for dynamically co-building CG. […]
• Anyway in Irish English 2024-12-20
  Abstract The development of the pragmatic marker anyway in Irish English is of relatively recent date. From an original adverb of manner there developed a pragmatic meaning when the element shifted to the right periphery (or became exposed there through deletion of an element to the right of it). A transition period occurred during which […]
• A diachronic account of Present Day Standard Danish stop gradation 2024-12-20
  Abstract In certain contexts, Present Day Standard Danish displays an unusual pattern of alternations between voiceless stops and semivowels often referred to as stop gradation. Stop gradation is traditionally considered a synchronic phonological process, but evidence for this analysis is based almost exclusively on non-productive morphology. Here, we argue that the structural generalization captured by […]
• Evaluation between grammar and context 2024-12-20
  Abstract This paper analyzes how the grammatical meaning of qualitative evaluation is developed in optatives which denote blessings and curses. Based on the analysis of several Turkic forms and several Russian constructions, this study distinguishes the grammatical meaning of evaluation from a pragmatic implication arising in particular contexts. It shows that grammatical items that have […]
• “Then we’re just two dudes driving around” 2024-12-20
  Abstract App-mediated ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft represent a relatively new chronotope that shapes participants’ identities and relationships through specific space and time configurations. Ridesharing services such as these blur the boundaries between what is public/private, familiar/unfamiliar, and interactional/transactional, resulting in chronotopically specific scenarios that are often humorously exploited by stand-up comedians in […]
• Review of Sartori & Binaghi (2022): The foundations of Arab linguistics V. Kitāb Sībawayhi, The Critical Theory. 2024-12-20
• Some problems involving Proto-Mǐn onsets and new Old Chinese 2024-12-20
  Abstract The Mǐn languages are crucial for the study of early Chinese, and Baxter and Sagart’s (2014) new Old Chinese system aims to prioritize Jerry Norman’s Proto-Mǐn of the 1970s. This report describes three key problems relating to the reconstruction of Proto-Mǐn syllable onsets, observing that, in relation to each problem, Baxter and Sagart’s new […]
• Mutual predictiveness of sound correspondences for reconstruction and language subgrouping 2024-12-20
  Abstract This paper uses Gyalrongic languages, a conservative branch of Sino-Tibetan, to illustrate a new method to evaluate proto-language reconstructions in general historical linguistics and to conduct exploratory analyses in language phylogeny. It first reconstructs a proto-system of Gyalrongic preinitials and computes and compares the implicative entropies between reconstructed and modern systems. In a second […]
• Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation 2024-12-19
  Abstract This study investigates the challenges of translating English demonstratives into Persian, with a focus on deictic shifts and their discourse-pragmatic implications. It aims to outline the recontextualization that deictic terms undergo during translation and the role of discourse-pragmatic factors in this process. Utilizing a parallel database of literary and academic texts in English and […]
• Language learning, desire, and global power dynamics 2024-12-19
  Abstract Drawing on the concepts of desire from applied linguistics and Deleuzian perspectives, this study investigates the desires encapsulated in a Japanese woman’s English learning sojourn in the Philippines. Data were collected using an open-ended questionnaire and through two semi-structured interviews. The participant’s retrospective narrative provides insight into her perceptions of the Philippines compared to […]
• Secondary school teachers’ opinions on the bilingual programme in Andalusia 2024-12-19
  Abstract Despite numerous benefits that accrue from Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) implementation, the programme is plagued with a number of challenges. Hence, the main purpose of the study was to scrutinize the secondary school teachers’ opinions on bilingual programme development and to determine if there were potential differences within the cohort of teachers. […]
• Lability in Balkan Slavic 2024-12-19
  Abstract The article assesses claims made in the previous studies regarding the increase in the number of identical transitive and intransitive verbs with patient-like arguments, that is, patientively labile (P-labile) verbs, in Macedonian in comparison with the other South Slavic languages. Based on an extensive sample of 130 varieties from different parts of the South […]
• Compte rendu de Jacobi (2021): Mythopoétiques dantesques — une étude intermédiale sur la France, l’Espagne et l’Italie (1766–1897) 2024-12-19
• Editors’ note 2024-12-19
• Review of Velnić, Dahl & Listhaug (2024): Current Perspectives on Generative SLA — Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference 2024-12-19
• Demonstrative pronouns in Kina Rutul 2024-12-19
  Abstract This paper presents the results of an experimental study of exophoric uses of demonstrative pronouns in the Kina variety of Rutul (Lezgic, East Caucasian). We collected the questionnaire designed by Wilkins (1999) from seven female native speakers of different ages to determine the spatial meanings of demonstrative pronouns and to identify secondary parameters affecting […]
• N-N compounds in L2 French and L3 English 2024-12-19
  Abstract This study considers the acquisition of nominal compounding in L2 French and L3 English among L1 Arabic speakers. Arabic N‑N compounds have the structure [NHead-NModifier]; English has the structure [NModifier-NHead]. French uses phrasal compounds [N-PP], also found in Arabic and English. The participants completed a forced-choice selection task. In L2 French, the L2 beginners […]
• What transcends “translation universals” across time? 2024-12-17
  Abstract Translation universals have been a central focus in corpus-based translation studies (CBTS), providing key insights into translated texts. However, their diachronic aspects remain underexplored despite extensive study. This study addresses this gap using Biber’s (1988) linguistic feature indicators. It primarily investigates the diachronic evolution of register features in translated Chinese texts across four sampling […]