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A Corpus-Based Analysis Of Noun Countability In Published Linguistics Articles
(2021-07)The countability of nouns has long been a topic of interest for many linguists and grammarians because of its complex linguistic and cognitive nature. In literature, countability has been viewed as a binary phenomenon ... -
Flouting Cooperative Maxims In The Making Of Jokes In The Sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”
(2021-07)This paper investigates how flouting the Gricean maxims is used to create comedic effects in the television series The Big Bang theory. The aim of the paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most to create comedy. ... -
Foreigner Talk In Vietnam’s Teaching And Learning Context
(2021-07)Foreigner Talk (FT) is a phenomenon where native speakers modify their speech to accommodate less proficient foreign speakers (Ferguson, 1971). However, whether proficient non-native speakers make similar modifications ... -
Language Transfer In Locative Prepositional Usages By Non-Native Speakers
(2021-07)Inequivalence is inevitable when bridging any two distinct languages. In the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics (CL), where language does not operate solely with its system of rules but altogether with other processes ... -
Production Of English Tense And Lax Vowels /ɪ I: ɒ Ɔ: Ʊ U:/ By Vietnamese Learners
(2021-07)Vowels play an essential part in precise pronunciation. Regarding the production of all vowels, that of tense and lax vowels is the angle that consumes the immense effort of the majority of English learners. Therefore, ... -
The Relationship Between Bilingualism And Emotion Perceived By Vietnamese College Students
(2021-07)The study of the correlation between language and emotion is an emerging area of enquiry which has attracted many researchers. Dewaele and Nakano (2012) conducted a study examining multilinguals’ perceptions of being ... -
The Speech Act Of Requests By Vietnamese College Students: A Pragmatic Study
(2021-07)The aim of this study is to re-examine the relationship between politeness and speech acts applied to making requests within the context framed by a contextexternal variable - social distance. By means of quantitative ... -
Tag Questions In English And Vietnamese: A Contrastive Analysis In Linguistic Appraisal
(2021-07)Communication is inherently a key for people to exchange information and knowledge. It is especially the case in the current era of globalization, when communication is no longer encapsulated within a group, a community, ... -
Translating Conversations That Flout Grice’s Maxims In Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone
(2021-07)This study aimed to examine the suitable translation method in translating conversational implicatures. Based on Grice’s (1975) Cooperative Principles, 60 conversations that flouted Grice’s maxims from the novel Harry ... -
The Use Of Conjunctions In Non-Native English Argumentative Essays By Vietnamese Undergraduates
(2021-07)Conjunction is one of the important cohesive devices that function as clue words in realizing logical-semantic relations between text segments (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). By virtue of that, it helps readers know what ... -
Vietnamese College Students’ Pronunciation Of Three-Consonant Onset Clusters: An Empirical Analysis
(2021-08)The present research was conducted to investigate how Vietnamese college students pronounce English three-consonant onset clusters including /spl/, /spr/, /str/, /stj/, /skr/, /skw/, /skj/. These clusters are aspects of ...