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| Description | Indian English | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Variety of English used by Indians in India and its structure and distinctive features i.e. phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics cum Sociology of English in India. |
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| Description | Grammatical Variation | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| (De-)Transitivization, Morpho-syntactic Variation, Complexity and Processing, British-American Differences, Language and Gender |
Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Sociolinguistics
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| Description | Language shift in an Anglo-Paraguayan community | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| This study attempts to shed light on the decisive factors in this particular case of language contact and shift with special focus on language attitudes and prestige |
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| Description | Colloquialisation in World Englishes | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| My research is devoted to the study of colloquialisation in the selected national varieties of English |
General Linguistics
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| Description | Discourses of English in Japanese Tweets | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| With an aim to critically investigate discourses/ideologies of the English language in Japan, this project is using tweets as data source for a combination of corpus and critical discourse analyses. |
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| 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
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| Description | English as a European Lingua Franca | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Motschenbacher, Heiko. forthcoming. New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
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Europe
Intercultural Communication
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| Description | Hybridity, Discourse Analysis | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Hybrid Discursivity, Discourse Analysis, and Linguistic Anthropology. The analysis of hybrid discourses that function within diasporic communities and/or hybrid cultures. |
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| Description | Global English(es) | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Research focus: convergent and divergent morphosyntactic features of varieties of English in the British Isles and beyond, esp. in African and Asian countries. |
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Typology
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| Description | Spoken English and the BBC | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| The early BBC has had a major impact on spoken English. My research focuses on its Advisory Committee on Spoken English (1926-39) and its failed attempt to regulate English at large. |
Historical Linguistics
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