Working Speakers in Whitman and Hopkins

investigating discourse markers use in spoken language between iranian tefl students and english native speakers

چارچوب نظری این مطالعه شامل یک گزارش عملکردی است و مبتنی بر تعریف شیفرین (1987) از مدل چند بعدی وابستگی مطالب است. این مطالعه 10 نشانگر گفتمان (بنابراین ، بله ، بسیار خوب ، باشه ، می دانید ، خوب ، چون، من فکر می کنم ، منظور من این است که ، در واقع) را با توجه به الگوی عملکردی مشلر(1994) در مورد نشانگرهای گفتمان طبقه بندی می کند. این مطالعه به بررسی مشخصات وقوع این عناصر در گفتار فی البداهه دانش...

Charles Otis Whitman (1842-1910)

Charles Otis Whitman [5] was an extremely curious and driven researcher who was not content to limit himself to one field of expertise. Among the fields of study to which he made significant contributions were: embryology [6]; morphology [7], or the form of living organisms and the relationships between their structures; natural history [8]; and behavior. Whitman served as director of several p...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing

This study examines the roles of proficiency and working memory (WM) capacity in second-/foreignlanguage (L2) learners’ processing of agreement morphology. It investigates the processing of grammatical and ungrammatical shortand long-distance number agreement dependencies by native English speakers at two proficiencies in French, and the relationship between their proficiency and WM capacity in...

Politeness in Emails Exchanged between English and Persian Speakers

Nowadays, intercultural communication via email among various groups and societies has been increasingly important as an aspect of communication. This research aims at investigating aspects of politeness meaning negotiation via emails exchanged between English and Persian speakers with different cultural backgrounds. The present study also reveals the potentials for using emails to experience c...