Research in Language: Ostatnio dodane
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Conceptual Metaphors in Visual Language The Graphic Novel City of Glass
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)The paper explores the use and impact of conceptual metaphors in the graphic novel City of Glass published by Paul Auster as a free-standing story in 1985. Two years later Auster turned it into the first part of The New ... -
Liquid Fear: Bauman’s Metaphorical Insights in Relation to Covid-19 Fear Metaphors
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-21)In this study I attempt to demonstrate how Zygmunt Bauman’s insights published in his book entitled Liquid Fear (2006) benefit the cognitive study of the emotion of fear by drawing correspondences between Bauman’s liquid ... -
Language Proficiency and Sonorant Devoicing in English Plosive-Sonorant Clusters
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This article explores the timing of phonetic voicing in plosive-sonorant clusters in English. VOT was measured in two groups of Czech learners with different proficiency levels and a native English control group. The ... -
Speech Rhythm in Spontaneous and Controlled L2 Speaking Modes: Exploring Differences and Distance Measures
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic ... -
Asymmetrical Equivalence Classification – Cluster Affrication vs. Lenis Stops in the Speech of Polish Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)According to the Speech Learning Model (Flege 1995), successful L2 phonological acquisition is facilitated by the formation of new phonetic categories in the L2. However, category formation may be hindered by equivalence ... -
Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The main goal of the study reported in this paper was to verify whether the Big Five personality traits can be considered correlates of accentedness in a setting deprived of pronunciation-focused instruction. Each trait ... -
Pronunciation Anxiety, Pronunciation-Related Views and Pronunciation Learning Actions of EMI and English Major Students
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The present study explored pronunciation views, learning actions and anxiety in two differentiated English learner groups: one group which was studying English in an engineering degree and another group enrolled in an ... -
Zooming into the L2 Speech Fluency Markers of Anxious and Non-Anxious Advanced L2 Learners – an Extreme Case Sampling Report
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The study examines selected temporal markers of L2 utterance fluency in the speech of advanced L2 learners who exhibit high (HLA) and low (LLA) language anxiety levels. Out of the pool of 59 participants, six HLA and six ... -
Tailoring International Pronunciation Activities for Hungarian Learners of English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Pronunciation teaching is gaining more and more recognition in international contexts, however, empirical research concerning pronunciation teaching is underrepresented in the Hungarian educational context. While there are ... -
A Multimodal Study of How Pronunciation-Induced Communication Breakdowns are Managed During Tandem Interactions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper offers quantitative and qualitative findings from the exploration of communication breakdowns in English tandem interactions, by adopting a multimodal perspective. It focuses on the ways in which pronunciation-induced ... -
Self-Study of the MOOC English Pronunciation in a Global World: Metaphonetic Awareness and English Accent Variation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge ... -
Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our ... -
Accents in Speech Recognition through the Lens of a World Englishes Evaluation Set
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems generalize poorly on accented speech, creating bias issues for users and providers. The phonetic and linguistic variability of accents present challenges for ASR systems in both ... -
Theoretical and Practical Phonetic Instruction in the Eyes of Advanced Students. An Editorial to RiL Special Issue Vol. 21.3 and 21.4 on Pronunciation Research and Pronunciation Learning/Teaching in a Global EFL Perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The article focuses on advanced students’ beliefs and views related to their own pronunciation and pronunciation learning/teaching. It also presents their opinions on the university courses dedicated to phonetics and ... -
The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Speaker identity is one of the factors that might play a role in the realisation of sounds. Previous studies have observed that phonetic variations, alongside the formation of speaker’s identity, can index political meaning. ... -
Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)The language of propaganda can be treated as a specialist language with its own specialized terminology. It is produced by groups of variously configured propaganda experts responsible for the creation of propaganda messages, ... -
Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research. Relevance theory (RT) since its introduction ... -
A Topic-Based Diachronic Account of the Polysemy of the English Verb ‘Run’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This study discusses the polysemy and diachronic semantic frequency shifts of the English verb run using a topic model. The increase in corpus-based research in cognitive linguistics has yielded many empirical findings on ... -
What’s Dog Got to Do With It? Motivation Behind Denominal (Animal) Verbs
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)This paper investigates the motivation behind denominal conversion of animal nouns to verbs as well as their resultant senses. Upon critical consideration of previous accounts of animal verb senses and their possible ... -
Elaboration sites and prepositional meaning construction in English and Polish
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-28)Although prepositions are relational linguistic units of modest sizes, they can contribute a variety of different meanings to the constructions they are found in. The paper looks into the notion of e-site, which allows for ...