Motivated by the concept of Communicative Language Ability and the eminence of the IELTS exam, this study intended to scrutinize the representation of functional knowledge (FK) and socio-linguistic knowledge (SK) as sub-components of pragmatic knowledge in the writing performances of both tasks of the online General IELTS-practice resources across three band scores. This quantitative inter-scor...

This study aims to investigate the production of speeches by native and non-native Keynote Speakers in 4th ELTIC Conference. The spoken speakers are investigated from a genre analysis. Particularly, it is rhetoric linguistics perspective. writer uses descriptive qualitative research. It stated that have different styles when they were delivering their conference. speaker speech fully expressive...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate existing automatic speech-recognition (ASR) systems to measure their performance in interpreting spoken clinical questions and to adapt one ASR system to improve its performance on this task. DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS The authors evaluated two well-known ASR systems on spoken clinical questions: Nuance Dragon (both generic and medical versions: Nuance Gen and Nuance Med) a...

This paper reports a cross-genre study of how academics engage their audiences in two popular but underexplored academic genres: blogs and Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations. Based on corpus 65 blog posts 3MT presentations from social sciences, we examine establish interpersonal rapport with non-specialist the aid engagement resources. The analysis identified new ways informing persuading ...

Abstract This paper contributes to the question of how discourse relations are realised in TED talks. Drawing on an annotated, multilingual corpus talk transcripts, we examine English and Lithuanian, Portuguese Turkish translations by concentrating three aspects: degree explicitness relations, extent which explicit implicit encoded inter- or intra-sententially, whether top-level relation senses...

As evidenced by YouTube's rising online popularity, sharing experiences via social media is becoming more and common. Since the advent of digital media, communication experience have changed. A wedding speech an intriguing example this genre, where speaker naturally expresses gratitude to newlyweds guests while reliving family history. By recognizing important linguistic elements, audience can ...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...