Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa(Elsevier, 2020-01)
[EN] This study looks into the meta-pragmatics of e-releases by providing corpus-based data on variations in the use of first-person references in e-releases from two oil companies: BP and Repsol. Previous research on ...
Escrivà Lucena, María Remedios(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-05-02)
En el presente trabajo de investigación, basado en el método del Análisis Crítico del Discurso, se lleva a cabo un estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo de los editoriales en 5 periódicos de tirada nacional con el fin de ...
Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2015-03)
[EN] This study provides corpus-based evidence for the claim that metaphorical
conceptualizations postulated by scholars in a particular discipline are expressed
in specialized discourse. Scholars often propose alternative ...
Galstyan-Sargsyan, Ruzana; Polyakova, Oksana(Föreningen Tidskriften Moderna språk, 2023)
[EN] This paper demonstrates the relevance of delexical nouns (way, end, case and point) based on corpus findings, course book analyses and classroom experiments. To this end, first, delexical noun functions and frequencies ...
Periñán Pascual, José Carlos; Arcas Túnez, Francisco(Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN), 2008)
[EN] Unlike most current NLP knowledge bases, where the lexicalist approach prevails, FunGramKB is ontology-oriented, since the ontology plays a pivotal role between the lexical and the cognitive levels. The objective of ...
Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa(Masaryk University, 2016-01-09)
[EN] This study provides insights into discursive practices through a comparative study of keywords in English-language press releases from British, Spanish and Polish energy companies. Even though corporate press releases ...
In this paper we analyse the motivation of students when they are taught a foreign language using different methodologies. We
took into account that motivation may be defined as the various purposes that are part of the ...
Engineering students should be able to identify, comprehend and accurately use those discourse elements which
characterize scientific language.
Modality is a complex aspect of the English language for Spanish students ...
Jaime Pastor, Mª Asunción; Pérez Guillot, Mª Cristina; Candel Mora, Miguel Ángel(De Gruyter, 2012-11)
[EN] One of the main problems relating to language courses offered at language centres is measuring the students' entry-level skills in a fast, efficient and reliable way. This problem is particularly acute in language ...
Carrió Pastor, Mª Luisa(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2012)
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English.
The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use
epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers ...
Metadiscourse is usually studied in terms of a cross-cultural exploration of interpersonality, mainly in academic English, but we believe that this approach could be applied to other genres. The main purpose of this study ...
Saz Rubio, María Milagros del(Universidad de Zaragoza, 2019)
[EN] This paper describes a genre-based exploration of the rhetorical structure and use
of interpersonal metadiscourse features in the Results and Discussion sections of
32 research articles written in English from the ...
Soler Monreal, Carmen; Carbonell Olivares, María Soledad; Gil Salom, María Luz(Elsevier, 2011-01)
This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same ...
This paper focuses on the variation of sentence connectors in academic English and, more
specifically, on the issue of whether language use can change depending on the linguistic
background of the writer. This study takes ...
Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa; Ahrens, Kathleen(De Gruyter, 2015)
This study examines the use of words and phrases that signal metaphors in three genres in order to further examine the corpus-based evidence for signaling variation mentioned in previous research. While previous studies ...
Skorczynska Sznajder, Hanna Teresa; Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa(SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica, 2021-08)
[ES] Resumen El presente estudio analiza las variaciones de las frecuencias y las funciones pragmáticas de los marcadores metadiscursivos conocidos como intensificadores, y en particular de sus formas verbales. Se recopilaron ...
Soler Monreal, Carmen; Gil Salom, María Luz(Universidad de Murcia, 2011)
Citation practice provides justification for arguments and allows a writer to indicate a rhetorical gap for her/his research and adopt a tone of authority. Claims must be supported with evidence, and writers must demonstrate ...
Stepins, Katrin Vija(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-04-29)
[ES] Esta tesis se centra en la variación interlingüística del uso metafórico del lenguaje en sitios web turísticos promocionales en inglés británico, alemán de Alemania y castellano peninsular. A pesar de la importancia ...
Minguez-Aroca, Francisco; Moll López, Santiago Emmanuel; LLobregat-Gomez, N.; Sánchez Ruiz, Luis Manuel(MDPI AG, 2022-02)
[EN] Evaluating competencies achieved by students within a subject and its different topics is a multivariable and complex task whose outcome should provide actual information on their evolution. A relevant feature when a ...
Pérez-Sabater, Carmen; Montero Fleta, Maria Begoña(De Gruyter, 2015-11)
Despite the vast body of research on the linguistic peculiarities of Instant Messaging and Short Messaging Service, little is known about the language used in Mobile Instant Messaging in a cross-generational and cross-cultural ...