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‘Early interactions’ in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

English of science or scientific English?

simplest sense consciousness is an awareness of the outside world”—empties ‘conscious­ ness’ of any meaning [1]. On the contrary, recognizing that every organism is conscious opens up enormous opportunities for experimental investigation and evidence­ based understanding of this crucial biological capability. Awareness can be considered as an ability to respond to certain patterns of stimulatio...

From Plain English to Controlled English

We outline an approach for transferring specifications and technical documents written in plain English into controlled English. In a first step, we analyse the sentences of the source documents and (partially) translate them into a set of logical forms. In the second step, we send the logical forms to a surface-form generation module that plans how the sentences of the controlled language shou...

Singapore English

Singapore English is a nativised variety of English, which comes in essentially two forms: Standard Singapore English and Colloquial Singapore English. This article describes the sound system and the grammar of this variety, including an overview of the local vocabulary. A concluding section explains the various models that have been proposed to explain that variation in Singapore English, incl...