the present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate efl learners. more specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. the data include a 22-hour corpus of english-as-a-foreign-language conversations. a comparison is also made between this corpus and a ...

purpose this case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female paralympic powerlifting athlete. the focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. methods with an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 sin...

This article investigates the discourse functions of antonymy in Amma Darko’s Faceless. It also explores principles that govern order antonymous pairs The study is motivated by an observation, based on corpus data, certain co-occur written and they perform various functions. There argument tend to be used a preferred sequence sentence. Data was collected from Faceless, novel about plight street...