Essays about: "English speakers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 205 essays containing the words English speakers.

  1. 1. Bilingualism and Event Conceptualisation Patterns: Conceptual Transfer in Swedish-English Bilinguals

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Emma Knudsen; [2024]
    Keywords : Linguistic relativity; Conceptual transfer; Grammatical aspect; Endpoint encoding; Event conceptualisation; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this paper, the event conceptualisation patterns of Swedish-English bilinguals are examined. Swedish and English differ from each other with regard to the existence of grammatical aspect, which previous work has shown to affect how speakers conceptualise motion events. READ MORE

  3. 2. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  4. 3. Trilingual spoken word recognition : Interlingual competition from one or two non-target languages in a sentence context

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Yulia Kashevarova; [2023]
    Keywords : trilingual speech processing; cross-linguistic competition; sentence context; BLINCS; BIA ;

    Abstract : Persistent non-target language co-activation in spoken and visual language comprehension has been found both at the word-level and at the level of a sentence, although in the latter case, sentence bias has been observed to modulate the co-activation which can create lexical competition. In the case of trilingual speakers, both non-target languages may potentially compete with the third language (L3). READ MORE

  5. 4. Proficient speakers : A literature review on what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Kim Fahlström; [2023]
    Keywords : Fluency; speech; oral proficiency; assessment;

    Abstract : An increasing amount of people use the English language, even those with other first languages. Therefore, there is an interest in investigating various aspects of the English language. The present study aims to investigate what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English. READ MORE

  6. 5. Wicked Witches and Evil Queens? : A corpus-based study of the near-synonyms evil and wicked in contemporary American English

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Mariam Barazeghi; [2023]
    Keywords : adjectives; collocations; corpus linguistics; dictionaries; gender studies; synonyms;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine what contemporary corpora can reveal about the use of the two adjectives evil and wicked. These two synonyms have been analysed using corpus linguistics in order to acquire results about the differences between them regarding frequency of use, as well as their collocating nouns. READ MORE