The article deals with interpretation of gender problems in amateur criticism the German language. goal study is to define specific features gender-fair language forms, detect arguments discussion members as well their linguistic explanation, and consider means assessment used about materials examined were taken from online-media for period 2017 2021. main research method multifaceted discourse...

this study focused on the effect of teaching collocations on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions, of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of efl students. sixty intermediate efl female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90 students through the pet and a general vocabulary knowledge test. the...

The purpose of this study is two-fold: to explore the differences in online medical information searching behaviors, including evaluative standards and search strategies, of the general public (general group) and those of hospital patients and their relatives (hospital group); and to compare the predictive relationship between the evaluative standards and search strategies of the two groups. A ...

Purpose: To present recent studies that used the ultrasound in the fields of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, which evidence possibilities of the applicability of this technique in different subareas. Research strategy: A bibliographic research was carried out in the PubMed database, using the keywords “ultrasonic,” “speech,” “phonetics,” “Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences,” “voice,...

An important function of language is to create and develop interpersonal relationships in communication. In inquiry we share and coordinate our beliefs about how the world is. But we also take a stance and socially orient ourselves toward possible acts, attitudes, and states of affairs. We evaluate possibilities as desirable, appropriate, horrible, trivial, permissible, wonderful. We make deman...

This article illustrates a method of studying the evaluative connotations of words and phrases, by studying their most frequent collocates in large corpora. The semantic schemas which can be identi®ed in this way are clusters of preferred lexis and syntax, which often have conventional pragmatic connotations. Examples of individual schemas are given. A broader research project is then proposed ...

Although repetition of prosody plays a significant role in children’s language development, few studies have investigated the interactional role of children’s use of boundary tones in talk-in-interaction. This study investigates the interaction between a two year old Korean child and her caretakers to describe the child’s ability to participate in building adjacency pair sequences using boundar...

This paper contains a method for direct search of associations from numerical data that are expressed in natural language and so, we call them ‘‘linguistic associations’’. The associations are composed of evaluative linguistic expressions, for example ‘‘small, very big, roughly medium’’, etc. The main idea is to evaluate real-valued data by the corresponding linguistic expressions and then sear...