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5th International Symposium Language for International Communication (LINCS)

28–29 Apr 2022
Europe/Riga timezone

Session

Descriptive aspects in LSP

29 Apr 2022, 11:30

Conveners

Descriptive aspects in LSP

  • Zigrida Vinčela (University of Latvia)
  • Laura Karpinska (University of Latvia)

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  1. 82. Latvian-English code-switching on social media
    Prof. Indra Karapetjana (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities), Prof. Gunta Roziņa (University of Latvia, Faculty of Humanities)
    29/04/2022, 11:30
    Translation and interpretation in LSP
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    People draw on the languages in their linguistic repertoire, depending on the speech participants’ needs and the conversational setting. The English language has gained salience and replaced the Russian language as the most often foreign language to learn at schools after Latvia regaining independence in 1990. Since then, it has been used widely as a lingua franca in various fields, for...

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  2. 7. The social life of Philippine English phonology: Implications for international communication
    Annie Mae Berowa
    29/04/2022, 11:50
    Terminology interface of theory and practice in LSP
    Presenters (Oral Presentation) – Live ZOOM Presentation

    Philippine English is one of the New Englishes in the world that is situated in a country where numerous languages exist all over the archipelago. Given such diverse background, it is imperative that the approach to be used in illustrating its features must be inclusive to provide strong and acceptable claims particularly in the aspect of phonology. It has been suggested that the possible...

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  3. 16. Relating Biber et al.’s developmental progression index of grammatical features in academic prose to the CEFR
    Dr Noriko Nagai (Ibaraki University)
    29/04/2022, 12:10
    Terminology interface of theory and practice in LSP
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    A series of corpus-based studies by Biber and his colleague (Biber 1988, 2006, Biber et al. 1999, Biber & Gray 2016, Gray 2015) reveal that grammatical features which appear frequently in academic prose differ drastically from those in conversation. The former uses dependent phrases functioning as pre-and post-modifiers of the head noun, while the latter uses dependent clauses functioning as...

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  4. 87. Pronunciation variation trends of General British English centring diphthongs across fields
    Zigrida Vinčela (University of Latvia)
    29/04/2022, 12:30
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    Phoneticians describe General British (GB) English diphthongs as centring and closing (Cruttenden, 2008; Collins et al. 2019, Carr, 2020) according to their glides. Centring diphthongs, the glide of which is the central vowel, are in the focus of linguists due to their gradual monophthongisation process. These in-process changes result in the inconsistent use of centring diphthongs in spoken...

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