The purposes of the present study were to explore the relationship between body awareness and negative body attitude, interoceptive body awareness and physical self in women practicing fitness as well as to analyze the determinants of body awareness. The Body Awareness Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire and the ...

The paper aims at exploring the relationship between perceived pronunciation performance and metalinguistic awareness in the acquisition of third language phonology. The study involved 27 participants with Polish as L1, English as L2 and French as L3. In the first part of the study, third language pronunciation performance was assessed by means of online ratings involving 3 components: foreign ...

Many future military operations are expected to occur in urban environments. These complex, 3D battlefields are extremely demanding and introduce many challenges to the dismounted warfighter. These include limited visibility, lack of familiarity with the environment, sniper threats, concealment of enemy forces, ineffective communications, and a general problem of locating and identifying enemy ...

R and designers have been building awareness displays to improve the coordination of communication between distributed co-workers since the early 1990s. Awareness displays are technology designed to provide contextual information about the activities of group members. Most researchers have assumed that these displays improve the coordination of communication regardless of the relationship betwe...

Abstract This study investigates the impact of spending more than three years in an English environment on Saudi migrants’ metapragmatic judgments Arabic L1 nonverbal greetings and their personality traits. Participants are 437 adults comprising groups: L2 speakers UK, Saudis Arabia, British UK. They observed rated audiovisual stimulus illustrating greeting behaviours handshake cheek-to-cheek k...

We propose a notion of a sub-model for each agent at each state in the Heifetz et al (2006) model of interactive unawareness. Presuming that each agent is fully cognizant of his sub-model causes no di¢ culty and fully describes his knowledge and his beliefs about the knowledge and awareness of others. In addition by relaxing some of the conditions that Heifetz et al imposed in their framework w...

In this paper, we investigate the pressures placed upon English teaching by neo-nationalist politics, particularly as it overlays existing neoliberal constraints. We focus on experiences and perspectives of Brazilian teachers who are committed to critical language education even carries increasing risks themselves. Interviews with five used illustrate ways in which their work is regulated throu...

Abstract This paper presents an exploratory study of meta-illocutionary expressions, i.e. everyday vocabulary such as request , promise and insult used to explicitly refer speech acts label, discuss negotiate them in communication. Taking the example expressions referring apologising Irish English, question is addressed which contexts, forms functions these are used. Evidence from ICE-Ireland S...

Public apologies are one of the most prominent examples of migration of speech acts from the private to the public sphere and now commonly feature in a wide range of public and media settings. Judging by the last two decades, the act of public apology is clearly in the process of social change, although perhaps more particularly in English-speaking cultures. The paper inscribes itself in a grow...