ISLE Research Network

Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 ‘themes’, and each theme may include any number of keywords.

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Description	discourse variation	Kwd:1 Text:0
	I work on functionally and socially conditioned variation in the use and formal encoding of discourse variables.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Sociolinguistics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
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
Description	English vs. Russian Politeness	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Differences in English vs. Russian communicative strategies reflect differences in social relationships, they are determined by culture-specific values and understanding of (im)polite behaviour
	Anthropological Linguistics  Cognitive Linguistics  Discourse Analysis  Intercultural Communication  Intercultural Pragmatics  Language and Cultural Aquisition  Politeness Theory  Sociolinguistics
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
Description	The development of procedural meanings	Kwd:1 Text:0
	The re-cycling of obsolete word order patterns as markers of procedural meanings, from playful expressions like "I kid you not" to the "Says John:...."-construction.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Syntax
Description	CADOH (Corpus of American Discourses on Health)	Kwd:1 Text:0
	An on-going project to collect multiple genres of non-specialist speech and writing as a way to examine how vernacular terms on health are evaluated, circulated, and reinforced within society.
	Discourse Analysis  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics

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