The use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays by intermediate and advanced EFL students by Oleksandr Kapranov

“… This article involves an empirical linguistic study aimed at elucidating the use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays written by a group of intermediate EFL students (further referred to as ‘participants’). 20 participants were recruited at Stockholm University, Sweden and matched with a control group comprised of 20 advanced EFL students at the same university. …”
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Modernism’s Zoo (Pet and Pen in Virginia Woolf’s Flush) by Frédéric Regard

“…By going back to the fundamental categories of Aristotelian philosophy and supporting his argument with detailed narratological analyses of the narrative, the author suggests that this canine biography should be read, precisely, not as an auto/biography – where the anthropological machine would still be running at full speed – but as a fable of the Modernist artist’s discovery of her own linguistic infancy. This study is much indebted to the works of Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, the twentieth century’s most eminent Aristotelian philosophers, but it also draws on Donna Haraway’s proposal of a necessary “reinvention of nature.” …”
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Dziecięce konstrukcje świata w rozmowach z dorosłymi by Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska

“…In the theoretical part there are assumptions of interpretive paradigm and theses about social interactionist theory, linguistic relativism and social and psychological constructivism as a background for the discussion. …”
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Primary school students’ argumentation skills: expression of arguments by Vaiva Schoroškienė

“… This study was conducted to analyze the fourth grade students’ linguistic abilities allowing them to express their arguments in oral and written texts: to determine both the number of presented arguments as well as the level of their elaboration, to characterize the expression of the arguments. …”
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Effects of Strategy-based Instruction on Chinese EFL Learners’ Writing Enjoyment: A Mixed-methods Study by Nan Hu, Ci Zhang

“…The experimental group ( N  = 55) received a 6-step writing strategy teaching cycle, while the control group ( N  = 51) received conventional instruction focusing on linguistic knowledge. Participants’ levels of writing enjoyment were assessed through pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest questionnaires. …”
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Poetic Exploration of Obasa’s Prolegomenous Poetry by Duro Adeleke

“…Tus, it is averred that literature depends on linguistic structure for its existence since language is the substance of literature (in our own instance, poetry). …”
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Discourse Markers as Cues for Topic Shift Interpretation: Experimental Evidence from Spanish by Mercedes Villalobos Cardozo, Ludivine Crible, Liesbeth Degand

“…Despite the complex terminological panorama regarding discourse markers (hereafter DMs) and the elusiveness of the notion of discourse topic, the relationship between these linguistic phenomena is a long-standing one. Descriptions linking the two are present in early work on DMs and are still the subject of ongoing discussion. …”
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Development of the Regulatory and Institutional Basis for Incrising the Educational Migration to Russia by T. K. Rostovskaya, S. V. Ryazantsev, V. I. Skorobogatova

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Vuk S. Karadžić: Srbi všetci a všade. Od juhoslovanstva k myšlienke “Veľkého Srbska” by Maroš Melichárek

“…Karadžič “Kovčežič za istoriju, jezik iobičaje Srba sva tri zakona” and also to demonstrate the cultural, linguistic and social conditions of its origin. An important factor of the analysis is the problem of national historiographies, more specifically of the Serbian and Croatian historiographies. …”
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Das konzeptuelle Potenzial des deutschen Konfixes bio-. Eine korpusbasierte Netzwerkanalyse by Elżbieta Pawlikowska-Asendrych

“…The analyses were carried out on the basis of a linguistic corpus taken from German dictionaries, newspapers and magazines.…”
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Multicriteria Personnel Selection by the Modified Fuzzy VIKOR Method by Rasim M. Alguliyev, Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Rasmiyya S. Mahmudova

“…The triangular fuzzy numbers are used to evaluate the suitability of personnel and the approximate reasoning of linguistic values. For evaluation, we have selected five information culture criteria. …”
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The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language by Yan Gu, Ed Donnellan, Beata Grzyb, Gwen Brekelmans, Margherita Murgiano, Ricarda Brieke, Pamela Perniss, Gabriella Vigliocco

“…., gestures, eye gaze, intonation) in addition to speech and there is a growing interest in the study of multimodal language by psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and computer scientists. …”
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Proper Names as an Ethnocultural Text: Nogai Place Names as Determinants of Ethnic Memory by Mariia Bulgarova

“…The toponymic system of each language in verbalized form reflects the historical, social, linguistic and ethno-cultural features of the ethnic group. …”
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Translating conversational implicatures in English movies and series into Arabic: can floutings be captured? by Hadeel Saed, Ahmad S. Haider, Mohammad Albarakati, Sausan Abu Tair, Mohammad Alqatawna

“…The results showed that audiovisual translators tend to reduce ambiguity through strategies like addition and explicitation, which alters the features of the maxims found in the source text. Moreover, linguistic differences also make retaining ambiguity a challenge. …”
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Integrating Handcrafted Features with Machine Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Albanian Social Media by Fetahi Endrit, Hamiti Mentor, Susuri Arsim, Zenuni Xhemal, Ajdari Jaumin

“…This suggests that there is no clear pattern for the machine learning models to accurately flag the comments, indicating that Albanian is linguistically challenging to analyze.…”
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Reliability and validity of the Lithuanian version of headache-attributed lost time (HALT) index by I. Zagorskienė, E. Abelkis, R. Mameniškienė

“…Lithuanian version of HALT index (HALT-LT) satisfying requirements of linguistic and cultural adaptation was prepared. HALT-LT demonstrated acceptable internal consistency and test-retest reliability. …”
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A Fuzzy Logic Technique for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Marine Renewable Energy Power Plants by Pamela Flores, Edgar Mendoza

“…The fuzzy logic methodology approach allows for the incorporation of uncertainties into the assessment process, converting qualitative assessments into quantifiable data and linguistic levels and enhancing decision-making accuracy. …”
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Exploring the use of tutorial recordings for beginner distance learners of Chinese by Pleines Christine, Kan Qian

“…Findings suggest that these perceived benefits and preferences are linked to linguistic competence in comparison with direct attenders. …”
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Problems Encountered by International Students in Turkey in Accounting Education and Solution Suggestions: A Qualitative Study by Arif Gümüş

“…This study aims to identify the challenges faced by international students enrolled in accounting courses at İnönü University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and to explore potential solutions to these challenges using a qualitative research method.In a globalized world, the increasing mobility of international students leads to challenges for those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, especially in technical courses such as accounting. …”
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„Sprache macht den Freigang der Gedanken möglich“. Zu den sprichwörtlichen Aphorismen von Franz Hodjak by Wolfgang Mieder

“…He employs formulaic linguistic structures and deals with such themes as truth, lie, love, religion, morality, politics, and much more. …”
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