An automated approach to the phrasicon of EFL learners

Cock, Sylvie De; Granger, Sylviane; Leech, Geoffrey; McEnery, Tony

doi:10.4324/9781315841342-5

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“…From a cross-cultural pragmatics perspective, the results of our study are in line with other investigations in the field. The problems entailed by the acquisition of pragmatic competence by Spanish students of English are similar to those found by Nikula (1997) andDe Cock et al (1998) with non-native speakers of a different mother tongue, since there is no doubt about the native character of powerless speech styles. Based on French speakers, De Cock et al (1998) showed higher rates of powerless markers used by native speakers of English, as well as a richer variety.…”

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“…The problems entailed by the acquisition of pragmatic competence by Spanish students of English are similar to those found by Nikula (1997) andDe Cock et al (1998) with non-native speakers of a different mother tongue, since there is no doubt about the native character of powerless speech styles. Based on French speakers, De Cock et al (1998) showed higher rates of powerless markers used by native speakers of English, as well as a richer variety. In the case of Nikula (1997), results sustained that nonnative speakers have the risk of sounding too formal or not natural if they use these linguistic markers.…”

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Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Pérez-Sabater

Montero-Fleta

2014

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Following one of the new challenges suggested by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, a treatment was developed to enhance pragmatic competence, since this competence is not easy to acquire by non-native speakers. Within this context, we focused on pragmatic awareness in the workplace, an area of expertise in growing demand today. Specifically, we centred on the power variable and the distinction between powerful and powerless speech styles through negotiation, co-planning and goal-oriented interactions. Powerful speech has been envisaged as the language of success; however, the positive implications of powerless speech in the workplace have been recently posited. After an instruction phase, the results confirmed that powerless markers were prone to be used adequately in writing, while in oral interactions non-native speakers were not able to employ them fluently or, at least, naturally. The treatment encouraged the critical engagement of students in the process of learning new ways of communicating at work. RESUMENEn relación a uno de los retos planteados por el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCERL), presentamos un estudio para desarrollar la competencia pragmática. Centrándonos en la conciencia pragmática en entornos laborales, el estudio dedica atención especial a la variable de poder y a la distinción entre estilos de lenguaje con o sin poder por medio de actividades de negociación, co-planificación e interacción orientada a objetivos. El lenguaje de poder se ha considerado siempre una garantía de éxito. Sin embargo, se han señalado recientemente implicaciones positivas del lenguaje sin poder en entornos laborales. Tras una fase de instrucción los resultados confirmaron el uso adecuado de marcadores de ausencia de poder en el lenguaje escrito; por el contrario, en las interacciones orales se observó una mayor dificultad en el uso fluido o natural de dichos marcadores discursivos. La actividad propició la participación crítica en el proceso de aprendizaje de formas de comunicación en ámbitos laborales. PALABRAS CLAVE:Competencia pragmática, atenuación lingüística, marcadores discursivos, Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCERL), interacciones laborales.

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Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Pérez-Sabater

Montero-Fleta

2014

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“…Within this perspective, multiword sequences are viewed as constructed by rules on the fly, except for peripheral exceptions such as idioms. However, a growing number of corpus studies have shown that multiword sequences are by no means marginal (e.g., Jackendoff, 1997) but comprise up to 50% of normal written and spoken language use (DeCock, Granger, Leech, & McEnery, 1998; see Conklin & Schmitt, 2012, for a review). Whereas the meaningfulness of a linguistic structure is secondary in generative theories (e.g., Chomsky, 1980;Pinker, 1999), construction-based approaches argue for a more central role for meaning in language acquisition and use (e.g., Da z browska, 2014; Goldberg, 2006;Tomasello, 2009).…”

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Meaningfulness Beats Frequency in Multiword Chunk Processing

2020

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Whereas a growing bulk of work has demonstrated that both adults and children are sensitive to frequently occurring word sequences, little is known about the potential role of meaning in the processing of such multiword chunks. Here, we take a first step toward assessing the contribution of meaningfulness in the processing of multiword sequences, using items that varied in chunk meaningfulness. In a phrasal-decision study, we compared reaction times for triads of three-word sequences, corresponding to idiomatic expressions, compositional phrases, and phrasal fragments, while controlling for phrase and substring frequencies. Chunk meaningfulness, as assessed by a separate subjective rating study, was found to speed up decision times for all three types of strings: The more meaningful a multiword sequence was judged to be, the faster it was processed, independently of whether it was idiomatic, compositional in nature, or a phrasal fragment. These results highlight the importance of taking meaning into account when considering the processing of multiword chunks, consistent with predictions of construction-based approaches to language.

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“…The texts in question are homogeneous in their purpose and subject matter and such coincidences of alternative meanings are unlikely to be found. Nevertheless, frequency has been confirmed in other studies to be a valid criterion in the search for formulaic sequences, be it in written or spoken discourse (DeCock et al 1998;Clear 1993;Butler 1997;Moon 1998a;Moon 1998b).…”

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Repetitive and therefore fixed?

Kopaczyk¹

2012

English Historical Linguistics 2008

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This is a pilot study investigating the role of phrasal fixedness in the development of a standardised text type. The linguistic material comes from the Edinburgh Corpus of Older Scots (ECOS), consisting of samples of administrative records from 15th-century Scotland. The corpus has been searched for re-occurring lemmatic bundles, which are the indicators of emerging patterns and standardising usage in the records, developing in the context of linguistic standardisation of Scots. The findings are interpreted with regard to their semantics and function in the records, and indicate that the text type as such was not yet fully standardised in its repertoire of fixed phrases serving a specific purpose. In individual locations, however, one finds a greater degree of consistency and a tendency to develop a local norm. Similarly, in some specific textual functions the lexical fixedness may be present to a larger extent than in others. 1 1. This pilot study was initially presented at the 15th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2008. I am grateful to the conference participants for their inspiring comments, which guided me through the initial stages of the project. Since then, a larger-scale version of the study has attracted the financial support of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant nr N N104 014337), and acquired its final shape in a monograph (Kopaczyk forthcoming c) and several smaller publications (Kopaczyk 2011, forthcoming a, forthcoming b).

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An automated approach to the phrasicon of EFL learners

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Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Meaningfulness Beats Frequency in Multiword Chunk Processing

Repetitive and therefore fixed?

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