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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.
We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.
Language building in the digital era
We are leveraging on social media as a part of the tools to add to the word corpus of Dholuo language which is spoken in East Africa
- Expires after: 01-01-2040
- Keywords: Wager Dhowa,Language And Culture,Lexicology,Pragmatics
Letter writing in Late Modern English
Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers. A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language
- Website: https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/about/
- Expires after: 31-12-2027
- Keywords: Grammar Writing,Historical Sociolinguistics,Language Attitudes,Diachronic Variation,Prescriptivism,Standardization,Variationist Linguistics,Corpus Linguistics,Historical Correspondence,Pragmatics,Social Network Analysis,Socio-historical Linguistics
Constructing discursive opposition: a corpus study of negation in Ta-Nehisi Coates's discourse on race
I am a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Bergen (Norway). My research focuses on negation strategies in oppositional discourse, specifically anti-racist discourse.
- Expires after: 31-07-2026
- Keywords: Corpus Linguistics,Discourse Analysis,Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics
Figurative language in Interpreting
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- Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/M-Rasoul-Tayebi
- Expires after: 30-04-2026
- Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics,Translation And Interpreting Studies,Semantics,Sociolinguistics,Critical Discourse Analysis,Pragmatics
Ælfric’s Old English Admonition to a Spiritual Son: Text and Context
dissertation project: text edition of unique Admonitio text in MS Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 76, 55–67v, s. xi1
- Expires after: 31-03-2025
- Keywords: Diachronic Linguistics,Old English,Text Edition,Historical Pragmatics,English Historical Linguistics
Assessing the Manner of Speech in Australian Courts: A Study of English-Mandarin Professional Interpreters in Remote Settings
The mixed-method research study is funded by UNSW, investigating the manner of speech and other practical aspects of the accuracy of court interpreting in modes and modalities of remote settings.
- Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ran-Yi-14
- Expires after: 26-03-2025
- Keywords: Sociolinguistics,Pragmatics,Discourse Analysis,Translation And Interpreting Studies,Public Service Interpreting,Community Translation,Institutional Interpreting,Court Interpreting,Interpreter Education,Manner Of Speech,Language Learning
Benefaction and its interplay with related functions
Onomasiologically- and semasiologically-oriented corpus research on constructions expressing benefaction.
- Expires after: 02-01-2025
- Keywords: Alternations,Computer-mediated Communication,Internet Pragmatics,Linguistic Complexity,Semantics
English in Late Modern times
The aim is to take into consideration LModE usage in a range of previously unedited texts, especially as far as popular culture is concerned.
- Expires after: 31-12-2024
- Keywords: Historical Pragmatics,Historical Sociolinguistics,Geographical Variation,Early Business Discourse,Early Multimodality,Popular Culture,Entertainment
Constructionalizing Conversation: Collaborative Insubordination in English Language Podcasts
My PhD explores language use in podcasts through the lens of Interactional Construction Grammar.
- Expires after: 26-09-2024
- Keywords: Construction Grammar,Conversation Analysis,Insubordination,Pragmatics,Syntax,Spoken Language
Pragmatics and Discourse
Pragmatics and Discourse
- Expires after: 01-04-2023
- Keywords: Pragmatics,Corpus Linguistics,English,L2 Pragmatics,Pragmatic Information In EFL Textbooks,Contrastive Pragmatics,Compliment Research,Internet Pragmatics,Statistical Methods Of Data Analysis In Applied Li,TEFL,English As A Lingua Franca
The linguistic profile of I think
Describing synchronic and diachronic structure and use of the comment clause "I think" from phonetics to pragmatics
- Expires after: 20-11-2021
- Keywords: Conversation Analysis,Corpus Linguistics,Data Analysis With R,Diachronic Linguistics,Grammaticalisation,Discourse-pragmatic,Phonetics,Prosody,Synchronic Linguistics
Transforming Early English
Historical pragmatics offers a powerful explanatory paradigm for the formal changes medieval English and Scots texts undergo as they are transmitted across time and space
- Expires after: 31-07-2020
- Keywords: English Historical Linguistics,History Of Scots,Philology,Historical Pragmatics,Written Language