This chapter reports research on evaluative language in English and Spanish consumer-generated reviews on books and movies. Within the Appraisal framework, a contrastive study is carried out on the spans of Graduation embedded in spans of Attitude in 64 reviews. A qualitative analysis, covering a syntactic description of these expressions of Graduation and proposals for doubtful cases, is follo...

This article presents the results of a pilot study examining the use of first-person pronouns, certain adjectives and grading adverbs in a corpus of 51 French psychology student papers written in English as a second language. These results were compared to a corpus of published psychology articles and to a sub-corpus of psychology student texts from the British Academic Written English corpus (...

Drawing from experience in Switzerland, a test of 60 multiple choice questions covering the entire area of rheumatology was constructed and used at the international symposium of rheumatology, EULAR, Geneva 1998. It was introduced as a multiple choice question game, the language was English, and the level of acceptance was very high. Language posed only occasional problems. The reliability of t...

The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of technology for improving language education. A review of the effectiveness of past and current practices in the application of information and communication technology(ICT) in language education and the availability as well as capacities of current ICTs was conducted. The review found that existing literature on the effectiveness of techno...

This study discusses the planning, implementation, and assessment processes of English language teaching based on national curriculum Indonesia. Evaluative research was conducted using CIPP model, which stands for context, input, process, product. The subjects this were 30 teachers from 15 schools in three municipalities Central Java Province, Data collected through interviews, questionnaires, ...

In semantic flanker tasks, target categorization response times are affected by the semantic compatibility of flanker and target. Using positive and negative category exemplars, we investigated the influence of evaluative congruency (whether flanker and target share evaluative valence) on the flanker effect, using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. We hypothesized a moderation of the...

This article is concernedwith howwemake decisions based on how problems are presented to us and the effect that the framing of the problem might have on our choices. Current philosophical and psychological accounts of the framing effect in experiments such as the Asian Disease Problem (ADP) concern reference points and domains (gains and losses).We question the importance of reference points an...

The article focuses on the use of invective in political texts and specifics its rendering English-Ukrainian translation. It aims to define possible strategies for translation factors that influence translator’s choice. Since by leaders is aimed primarily at provoking a certain reaction from their opponents public, main criterion equivalence such units pragmatics, which stipulates task as tryin...

The article reflects the culture of communication as effective skills in professional activities contemporary world. aim is to study role language clichés communication, determine educational process and present structure business communications ways increase their efficiency. provides results a on speech interaction sphere. authors describe such phenomena inherent employees penitentiary system...