This paper presents an analysis of the language of patents, as a contribution to the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). While there work appears to fill a niche in the ESP field (and particularly in the English for Occupational Legal Purposes), the present study insists that statistical approach is necessary for compiling patent technical word list for ESP. Since research studies on ...

BACKGROUND Forthright reporting of financial ties and conflicts of interest of researchers is associated with public trust in and esteem for the scientific enterprise. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We searched Lexis/Nexis Academic News for the top news stories in science published in 2004 and 2005. We conducted a content analysis of 1152 newspaper stories. Funders of the research were identified...

Mortality data of disabled individuals are studied and parametric modeling approaches for the force of mortality are discussed. Empirical observations show that the duration since disablement has a strong effect on mortality rates. In order to incorporate duration effects, different generalizations of the Lee–Carter model are proposed. For each proposed model, uniqueness properties and fitting ...

Our work on the origins of New Zealand English (Cordon et ai, forthcoming) has shown that this newest of all of the major native speaker varieties of English is the result of dialect contact and new-dialect formation. Rather obviously, the dialects which were involved in the initial contact were dialects of English which had been brought from different parts of the British Isles. In terms of po...

This study investigates relationships between global oral proficiency ratings and measures of grammatical competence in the acquisition of Korean as a second language. Data were collected on the linguistic abilities of learners’ at 1+ to 4 on the ILR scale, focusing on perception and production in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and collocation. The results show that (i) most of the tasks ...

The present paper is a critique of quantitative studies of literature. It is argued that such studies are involved in an act of reification, in which, moreover, fundamental ingredients of the texts, e.g. their (highly important) range of figurative meanings, are eliminated from the analysis. Instead a concentration on lower levels of linguistic organization, such as grammar and lexis, may be ob...

This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants IIS-0729459 and SBE-0915645. RESEARCH QUESTION How can the relationships among information technology innovations be described and analyzed in a representative, dynamic, and scalable way? THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Innovation concepts are interrelated in an idea network, where using an ecological perspective they can ...

Criminal Sociolect in The Trilogy by Sergiusz Piasecki
 author of the article aims at reconstructing criminal sociolect North-Eastern Borderlands 1918-1919, based on Piasecki. plot novels takes place Minsk Litewski, which, that time, was full thieves from all regions Poland. In novels, Piasecki recreated living Borderlands, using authentic lexis. authenticity this is confirmed both materia...