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| Description | Culture specific communicative styles | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| People use languages in different ways according to specific social and linguistic norms, values, socio-cultural conventions, understanding of (im)politeness which shape their communicative styles |
Anthropological Linguistics 
Applied Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Discourse Analysis
Intercultural Communication
Language and Cultural Aquisition
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
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| Description | PhD 2008:Acquisition of Standard Jamaican English | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Dissertation title:
Learning the Sounds of Standard Jamaican English: Variationist, Phonological and Pedagogical Perspectives on 7-year-old Children's Classroom Speech |
| Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Phonetics
Phonology
Sociolinguistics
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| Description | Secondary school grammar teaching using a corpus | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Development of a web-based platform for teaching grammar to school students (Key Stages 3-5 in the UK National Curriculum). |
| Applied Linguistics
Education
Grammar
Parsing
Teaching
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| Description | Learner corpus research | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Collection, annotation and analysis of corpora containing written or spoken data from second or foreign language learners. Design of corpus-based pedagogical applications (grammars, dictionaries, etc) |
| Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Lexicography
Second language acquisition
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Corpus-based contrastive studies | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Collection and analysis of multilingual comparable and translation corpora (English, French and Dutch). Design of pedagogical applications (e.g. bilingualized dictionaries) |
| Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Contrastive linguistics
Lexicography
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I work in the area of Interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, particularly pedagogical aspects of interlangauge pragmatics in EFL contexts. |
| Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
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| Description | Contrastive study of Letters to Shareholders | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| A study of cross-linguistic differences (e.g. in the use of hedges) in the genre 'letters to shareholders', i.e. the first part of the Annual Report. Languages investigated: Engl., Germ., Fr., Sp. |
| Applied Linguistics
LSP
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| Description | Lexicography | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| New developments in electronic lexicography. Design of a web-based customizable dictionary-cum-writing aid of English for Academic Purposes. The dictionary is based on native and learner corpus data. |
| Applied Linguistics
Lexicography
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Count Nouns That Appear Without an Article | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Lacking expected morpho-syntax, this form is also pragmatically marked. Besides describing the forms use by native speakers, bare singular NPs can be tapped to help learners master English articles. |
| Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
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