The ongoing Pan-European integration process has profoundly influenced the nature of European law and its development, demanding a review “the ways how language […] is materialized” (Gibová, 2009, p. 192). EU multilingualism thus becoming an intricate concept since “EU translation Europe” 192) encompassing supranational view world co...

Although academic writing has been seen as an objective form of writing, recent studies have shown that it is a social interaction and not totally impersonal. In line with this view, Hyland (2002) stated also strongly linked the manifestation authorial presence across text. Included in interactional metadiscourse framework devised by (2005), self-mentions enable writers to express their beliefs...

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...

The article focuses on the definition and analysis of communication as a metadiscourse social interactions in terms topological methodology. Socio-cultural transformations that shape model global world change Ukrainian landscape, intensification cross-cultural contacts, international relations, relations communities different levels actualize problem communicative interaction. Globalization pro...

The research cross-culturally investigates the expression of stance in Facebook posts large multinational automobile corporations two countries, namely Egypt and United Kingdom. It seeks to identify ways markers differ from one culture language another interpret possible influence on these metadiscoursal choices. Accordingly, a contrastive analysis is performed which Arabic English pages are co...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...

Speaking as part of a conversation is different from reading out aloud. Speech synthesis systems, however, are typically developed using assumptions (at least implicitly) that are more true of the latter than the former situation. We address one particular aspect, which is the assumption that a fully formulated sentence is available for synthesis. We have built a system that does not make this ...

This study investigated metadiscourse and its subcategories in English research articles (RAs) written by nonnative (Iranian) and native English writers from the two disciplines of applied linguistics and civil engineering. The study aimed at seeing whether language and discipline influenced the frequency of occurrence of metadiscourse elements in research articles. To this end, a sample of 120...

This paper examines the phenomenon of interdisciplinary collaboration to critically appraise the widespread idea that working together requires the integration of knowledge. We build both on the concepts of common ground/grounding and interactional/contributory expertise to analyze in two case studies how common ground evolves in practice. We find that building common ground is a continuous pro...

Mobile phone use in cars is a highly debated issue. Legislation and policy discussions flourish in many countries and coincide with an increased effort in design of new in-car technologies. The studies which influence policy and design decisions use experimental approaches and are based on a cognitive perspective. In this paper, we discuss why this is a problematic approach. Further, we provide...