Conveners
Student Session: language acquisition, text linguistics, corpus analysis, culture and literature studies
- Jekaterina Čerņevska (Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Studies)
- Kristīna Korneliusa (University of Latvia)
The study explores the importance and specifics of enhancing ESP learners’ pragmatic competence as well as the benefits availed by the online environment for creating and delivering efficient and up-to-date ESP courses that would meet the learners’ needs. Building on prior contributions of scholars and practitioners in the field, the research examines relevant considerations for integrating...
The present paper aims to research modern Business English textbooks from the perspective of pragmatics. The theoretical part deals with the concept of hedging and linguistic politeness being part of pragmatics; it considers the importance of indirect use of language in business communication. The research investigates the teachability of hedging and linguistic politeness when modern textbooks...
In the current report, a corpus of texts on political economy published in 1841-1850 is presented as a case study. It was compiled within the framework of an international project "LEXECON. The Economic Teacher: A transnational and diachronic study of treatises and textbooks of economics (18th to 20th century). Intra- and interlingual corpus-driven and corpus-based analysis with a focus on...
The aim of the paper is to work toward an academic definition of cancel culture, a contemporary online phenomenon. Cancel culture has become a topic discussed frequently in the online environment; however, debate continues on how it is characterized and what it entails. Prior studies of the phenomenon are found in communication and media studies, political science and law, as well as social...
Toki Pona is a constructed language that aims to create simplicity in expression through the use of minimalism in vocabulary and grammar. This research aims to create a translation of an English text into Toki Pona and analyze the lexical differences in both texts. This research was conducted with the use of the research methods of textual analysis and the application of translation...
United States of America president’s inauguration is usually one of the most documented events all around the world, and online news media tends to cover its every aspect. In view of the importance of the event and the role of online news in communicating information, the goal of the present study was to explore how linguistic and non-linguistic modes of meaning making represent US president...
Research on newspapers and the passive voice has been conducted; however, not extensively. The goal of this paper is to analyse the use of the passive voice in newspaper articles published by major online British newspapers – Daily Mail, The Sun, Evening Standard, and Metro. In order to investigate the passive voice in the selected articles, a literature review, content analysis and frequency...
