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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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DescriptionPragmaticsKwd:1 Text:2.8
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 
DescriptionpragmaticsKwd:1 Text:2
My research is at the interface between pragmatics and other fields, mainly psycholinguistics (language of space, reference frames, manipulation) and language acquisition (CLIL)
Language Acquisition  Pragmatics  Psycholinguistics  Semantics 
DescriptionProsody: Semantics and PragmaticsKwd:1 Text:1
Investigating the meaning of prosody and its contribution to utterance meaning, particularly focusing on the interaction of conceptual and procedural meaning
Pragmatics  Prosody  Semantics 
DescriptionPragmatic StylisticsKwd:1 Text:1
Research network exploring the application of ideas from pragmatics in the stylistic analysis of texts (of all varieties)
Pragmatics  Stylistics 
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Descriptiondiscourse variationKwd: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 
DescriptionEnglish extender tags & diachronic phraseologyKwd:1 Text:0
Funded by the Finnish Academy, I'm studying English extender tags ("and such-like", "et cetera") in the history of English. Fixed forms, variant forms, their functions and distribution.
Historical Linguistics  Phraseology  Pragmatics  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics 
DescriptionCulture specific communicative stylesKwd: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 
DescriptionCount Nouns That Appear Without an ArticleKwd: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 
DescriptionThe Discourse Markers Why and SayKwd:1 Text:0
Diachronic examination contrasting their spoken use vs. occurrence in depicted conversations of fiction, collocation with different address forms, and speakers' sense of the words' productivity.
Historical Linguistics  Pragmatics  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics 
DescriptionThe development of procedural meaningsKwd: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 
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