The article considers ethnographic self-descriptions as a cultural form in which indigenous authors conceptualise their culture the shifting social contexts. Ethnographic selfdescriptions present (a) transformation of oral-discursive practices into text; (b) interpretation scientific versions by authors. author focuses on how Sámi is conceptualized text and written authors, taking account descr...

Theorisation and debate have been going on around the concept of civil society literally for centuries and ‘civil society theory’ could be understood as an umbrella term for the body of theorisation which has emerged. However, the term is used here in a more restricted sense to refer to the contemporary production of an ideological discourse through which academic theory is recycled as the poli...

The ability to use discourse markers (DMs) create cohesion and coherence of a text is essential for EFL learners at the university level express ideas thoughts in various types writing assignments, such as academic papers reflections. Hence, this study attempted shed more light on DMs non-academic writings Thai learners. main objective was investigate types, overall frequency, differences, simi...

This study investigates one dimension of personality, extroversion-introversion, and examines its potential impact on learner L2 oral performance. The study is innovative in that it analyzes not only the correlation between degree of extroversion and assessment scores based on analytic scoring but also the correlation between degree of extroversion and the discourse measures of accuracy, fluenc...

Among the major issues raised by classroom SLA researchers is the debate on the degree to which teacher’s or learner’s attention should be directed to linguistic features. However, one of the relevant variables in corrective feedback studies which seem to be less operationalized is the differential impact of different types of feedback on the accuracy of the oral performance of the participants...

This paper describes the use of perhaps, maybe and possibly in a crossdisciplinary corpus of academic and popularised scientific writing. It accounts for their higher frequency in popularised discourse by investigating their functions in detail. The analysis, conducted from various perspectives (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and rhetorical), suggests that two factors are at work: the evidentia...

AIM To elicit the languages of legitimation of senior nursing academics and national leaders and to investigate the extent to which distinctive disciplinary identities and discourses are embedded in them. BACKGROUND Over six years after Irish nursing education became established in the higher education sector, an investigation into the disciplinary maturity of the field is overdue. DESIGN A...

Abstract This article explores orality in the context of West African Christian women's voices, arguing that their oral expressions highlight lived faith experiences and function as a significant resource within study Christianity Africa. The first outlines concepts relation to gender, spirituality, language, community engagement. We argue contributions are rich source insight into spirituality...