This research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of English participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among Iranian intermediate-level EFL learners. The overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...

This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of so-called “hedged performatives,” which, although frequently referred to in the literature, have never been subject an in-depth functional study. Using data from Corpus Contemporary American English, focus is on I must/ say, admit, and confess, as hedged performatives which are among most frequent score highest terms collocational strength. The qua...

This paper reassessed the hedging properties of four major safe-haven currencies (US dollar, Swiss franc, euro, yen) in international stock portfolios covering most representative world macroeconomic areas. The main contribution to existing literature is emphasis on optimal and asset-allocation strategies. A further distinguishing feature an accurate comparison, inside a multivariate framework,...

This research focused on analyzing flouting and hedging maxims used by the main characters "Daddy Day Camp". The purposes of this were to investigate analyze how are flouted hedged Qualitative method was in because data form words rather than that numbers statistics. taken from utterances spoken After collected, they classified analyzed based Grice’s Cooperative principle theory. found many coo...