The main idea of contrastive analysis, as propounded by Robert Lado in his book Linguistics Across Cultures (1957), was that it is possible to identify the areas of difficulty a particular foreign language will present for native speakers of another language by systematically comparing the two languages and cultures. Where the two languages and cultures are similar, learning difficulties will n...

The article is devoted to the study of concept "education". This fundamental for Russian consciousness, since it inextricably linked with generally accepted system moral coordinates. purpose this build a structural model "education" and determine its type. solution following tasks contributes achievement goal: systematize definitions as key category cognitive linguistics, consider approaches st...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

in any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. to make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. the abstr...

commissioned in 1929 by the government of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to research the language varieties spoken by Zimbabwean natives. His work, which was premised on the quest for standardised, monolithic and homogeneous linguistic categories, marked the genesis of language politics in Zimbabwe. The Dokean legacy left an indelible mark on the terrain of language treatment and lang...

Embodied approaches to comprehension propose that understanding language entails performing mental simulations of its content. The evidence, however, is mixed. Action-sentence Compatibility Effect studies (Glenberg and Kaschak 2002) report mental simulation of motor actions during processing of motion language. But the same studies find no evidence that language comprehenders perform spatial si...

The paper presents a two-part forensic linguistic analysis of an historic collection abuse letters, sent to individuals in the public eye and individuals’ private homes between 2007 2009. We employ technique structural topic modelling (stm) identify distinctions core topics gauging value this relatively under-used methodology linguistics. Four key were identified ‘Politics A’ ‘B’, ‘Healthcare’ ...

Since the mid 90s corpora has become very important for computational linguistics. This paper offers a survey of how they are currently used in different fields of the discipline, with particular emphasis on anaphora and coreference resolution, automatic summarisation and term extraction. Their influence on other fields is also briefly discussed. Corpora for computational linguistics 3 Corpora ...

in spite of the highly beneficial applications of corpus linguistics in language pedagogy, it has not found its way into mainstream efl. the major reasons seem to be the teachers’ lack of training and the unavailability of resources, especially computers in language classes. phrasal verbs have been shown to be a problematic area of learning english as a foreign language due to their semantic op...