The article considers the category of verb tense in Russian, Kazakh languages from point view formation linguistic competence, since type-time correlation is one central sections morphology, and forms correct speech competence.  Despite numerous diverse studies field aspect lexical expression action time, which are issues aspectology, none points expressed still generally accepted. differe...

More and more sign languages nowadays are now documented by large scale digital corpora. But exploiting sign language (SL) corpus data remains subject to the time consuming and expensive manual task of annotating. In this paper, we present an ongoing research that aims at testing a new approach to better mine SL data. It relies on the methodology of corpus-based contrastive linguistics, exploit...

This paper proposes a theoretical concept of cross cultural discursive competence (CCDC). As an initial step, it reviews and critiques a series of in the relevant areas of intercultural communication, genre analysis and contrastive rhetoric and points out that it is imperative to explore what CCDC is composed of. In addition, we also need to strengthen cross-cultural genre study in the light of...

This paper reports on a preliminary study on second language (L2) learners’ interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) development in academic written discourse by examining how epistemic modality is used by non-native speaker (NNS) writers compared with NS writers in both native speaker (NS) and NNS corpus data. This study also investigates how NNS writers gradually develop interlanguage pragmatic competen...

Contrastive summarization is the problem of jointly generating summaries for two entities in order to highlight their differences. In this paper we present an investigation into contrastive summarization through an implementation and evaluation of a contrastive opinion summarizer in the consumer reviews domain.

Previous eye tracking studies [1] demonstrated that a prominent L+H* accent in English instructions evoked a contrastive relationship between discourse referents, immediately guiding listeners’ eye movements to contrastive candidates in the visual scene. However, the visual layout in the previous study conflated looks to contrastive candidates with those to previously fixated object groups, thu...

The press brings the reader closer not only to news of a community but also its language and culture. objective this study is know relationship between consumption lexical competence. Specifically, weekly time spent by 171 graduate students from Malaga reading with two tests in Spanish – mother tongue French or English foreign will be analysed. results show that there no significant available v...

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by memory disorders, although it affects also other cognitive functions (executive functions, attention, gnosia, praxia and language) and the communication ability. Our objective is to study verbal communication of people affected by the Alzheimer's disease at early to moderate stages. One particularity of our approach is that we are working in ecological co...