Grammar and Evaluation

Downing, Laura Hidalgo

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“…In Western linguistic tradition, there are fragmentary works on linguoaxiology and evaluation grammar (Michael Halliday 56 , James Martin 57 , Peter White 58 , the collective research by James Martin and Peter White 59 , Susan Hunston 60 , Laura Hidalgo Downing 61 ), however, fundamental monographic studies that would be devoted to the issue of linguoaxiology, are absent in contrast to East Slavic linguistics 62 .…”

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Professional discourse of contrastive grammar textbooks: the problem of interpretation of key terms

Kovtun

2021

Communicative-Pragmatic, Normative and Functional Parameters of the Professional Discourse

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Professional discourse of contrastive grammar textbooks: the problem of interpretation of key terms

Kovtun

2021

Communicative-Pragmatic, Normative and Functional Parameters of the Professional Discourse

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“…Perhaps this is why emotions in English are often expressed implicitly. The implicit means of conveying emotional information in English discourse include the means of grammar, among which we can single out, for example, modal verbs (Pounds, 2015;Hidalgo-Downing, 2015).…”

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New Understanding of the Barriers to Foreign Students Adaptation in the Changing Educational Landscape: The Case of Psycholinguistic Narrative Analysis

Tikhonova

Kosycheva

Efremova

2021

JLE

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed nowadays life in every aspect so irreversibly that there is no doubt that the educational landscape must be continuously re-evaluated and revised. In this regard, particular emphasis is given to the issues of academic mobility and adaptation of foreign students. The aim of the study is to clarify a new understanding of the issues traditionally faced by foreign students in universities in the host country and to analyze new barriers that have arisen as a result of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper reports on a narrative research study exploring the experiences and perceptions of 42 first-year bachelor and master foreign students having come to Russia for the first time. Taking into account that human behaiviour can be predicted through language patterns, we analysed language features to compare the participants’ rational and emotional perception of the barriers to adaptation highlighted from their narratives. The findings suggest that almost all issues traditionally faced by foreign students have received a new understanding or have changed their hierarchy in their perception. Contemporary challenges have also created new barriers to adaptation. Temporalities and restrictions in physical movement received special emphasis as an obstacle to adaptation of foreign students. In the context of the total transformation that awaits higher education after the end of the pandemic and its transition to a hybrid format, the results of this study can be used by academic developers to establish a system of foreign students’ psychological adaptation.

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Evaluating stance annotation of Twitter data

Simaki

Seitanidi

Paradis

2022

RiCL

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Taking stance towards any topic, event or idea is a common phenomenon on Twitter and social media in general. Twitter users express their opinions about different matters and assess other people’s opinions in various discursive ways. The identification and analysis of the linguistic ways that people use to take different stances leads to a better understanding of the language and user behaviour on Twitter. Stance is a multidimensional concept involving a broad range of related notions such as modality, evaluation and sentiment. In this study, we annotate data from Twitter using six notional stance categories ––contrariety, hypotheticality, necessity, prediction, source of knowledge and uncertainty––¬¬ following a comprehensive annotation protocol including inter-coder reliability measurements. The relatively low agreement between annotators highlighted the challenges that the task entailed, which made us question the inter-annotator agreement score as a reliable measurement of annotation quality of notional categories. The nature of the data, the difficulty of the stance annotation task and the type of stance categories are discussed, and potential solutions are suggested

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Grammar and Evaluation

Cited by 3 publications

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Professional discourse of contrastive grammar textbooks: the problem of interpretation of key terms

Professional discourse of contrastive grammar textbooks: the problem of interpretation of key terms

New Understanding of the Barriers to Foreign Students Adaptation in the Changing Educational Landscape: The Case of Psycholinguistic Narrative Analysis

Evaluating stance annotation of Twitter data

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