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	the semantics/pragmatics interface	Kwd:1 Text:1
	series of workshops organised at Lille 3 in 2012-3
	Pragmatics  Semantics  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	Prosody: Semantics and Pragmatics	Kwd: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
Description	Pragmatic Stylistics	Kwd:1 Text:1
	Exploring the application of ideas from linguistic pragmatics (particularly relevance theory) in the stylistic analysis of texts (of all varieties)
	Pragmatics  relevancetheory  Stylistics
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Description	Past and perfect in Nigerian English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	When do speakers of Nigerian English use the past and when the perfect? How does that compare to usage in other varieties of English? (based on ICE-Nig, currently being compiled)
	Pragmatics  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
Description	English extender tags & diachronic phraseology	Kwd: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
Description	Acquisition of Turkish	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My M.A thesis focuses on the conceptual development and suppression in the acquisition of Turkish as a first language, from a cognitive perspective.
	Cognitive Science  Cognitive Semantics  Language Acquisition  Pragmatics  Psycholinguistics  Semantics
Description	Rhetorics of Face-Saving Strategies. A Comparative	Kwd:1 Text:0
	This study aims at describing the different face-saving strategies employed by politicians in these two opposite cultures of United Kingdom and Nigeria.
	Discourse Analysis  Pragmatics  Sociolinguistics  Typology
Description	Compliments in ELF Talk	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Compliments in European ELF talk: A case study of Eurovision Song Contest press conferences
	Compliment  ELF  Intercultural Communication  Politeness  Pragmatics
Description	Tag questions	Kwd:1 Text:0
	My research focuses on various aspects on tag questions: functional, typological and contrastive aspects. My PhD thesis compares the use of tag questions in fiction dialogue to real-life conversation.
	General Linguistics  Linguistics & Literature  Pragmatics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics  Translation  Typology
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Description	Reaction Object Constructions in English	Kwd:1 Text:0
	Processes of Transitivization in English: Reaction Object Constructions and other nonsubcategorized objects
	Historical Linguistics  Morphology  Pragmatics  Semantics  Syntax  Text/Corpus Linguistics
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