Despite fruitful studies on knowledge flow and interdisciplinarity, there are few investigations on knowledge flow in humanities and social sciences (HSS) and how knowledge from science and technology diffuses to HSS sub-disciplines. Based on Chinese and English articles in HSS, this study explored knowledge flow in China’s HSS with an analysis of Chinese and English publications from 1998 to 2...

The present study aimed to examine and compare the impact of teaching economic terms through etymological elaboration with three more conventional methods of vocabulary instruction in ESP courses in Iran, that is, teaching through contextual definitions, L1 translation, and implicit instruction on the learners' general comprehension of economic texts and their understanding of author's opinion....

In Indonesia, English is now a compulsory subject in undergraduate programs, regardless of whether students are enrolled Non-English or Departments. departments, including those tourism, law, economics, pharmacy, and other fields, require as well. The way taught the civic department, for example, varies from how it economics department. language items sub-skills necessary department differ requ...

This study aims to evaluate the ideas on scope and method of economics Joseph Schumpeter who is one important economists 20th century. The consists four sections: In first section we underline interesting points his life understand roots, background, or 'vision' thought system. second section, will examine methodological views that he asserted in (but translated into English only 2010) book. Th...

Abstract This study focuses on realizations and discourse functions of the organizational linkers in the writing of research article abstracts from four disciplines. To this end, 120 research article abstracts from four disciplines namely, Applied Linguistics, Economics, Agriculture, and Applied Physics (30 from each discipline) were selected. All research article abstracts were extracted from ...

We have found empirical evidence of a correlation in English between words containing complex vowels (diphthongs and triphthongs) and ‘gold-standard’ phrase break annotations in datasets as apparently different as seventeenth-century verse and a Reith lecture transcript on economics from the late twentieth-century. Spontaneous speech in the form of BBC radio news reportage from the 1980s again ...