To date, little research has examined participants' understandings of insults. We examine (potentially) derogatory talk and its consequences in interactions on Twitter, considering instances the Twitter feed one high-profile user. Discourse analysis identifies four forms response to attempted insults: (1) ascribing category membership first contributor, (2) taking up contributor self-identifica...

We prove generalizations of some partition theorems of Farkas and Kra. 1. The Farkas and Kra partition theorem and its generalization In a recent talk given at the University of Melbourne, Hershel Farkas asked for a(nother) proof of the following elegant partition theorem. Theorem 1.1 (Farkas and Kra [2],[3, Chapter 7]). Consider the positive integers such that multiples of 7 occur in two copie...

Critical pedagogy (CP) empowers L2 learners to have a voice in the classroom and in the society. This study was an attempt to investigate whether the current classroom discourse  in  Iran  can  endow  the  L2  learners with  a  critical  awareness  to  actively transform their learning processes and creatively engage in collaborative dialogues to construct new knowledge. To this end, the discou...

This study investigated whether Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL learners hereafter) could use prosodic cues to resolve syntactically ambiguous sentences in English. 8 sentences with 3 types of syntactic ambiguity were adopted. They were far/near PP attachment, left/right word attachment and wide/narrow scope. In the production experiment, 15 Chinese college students who p...

WHAT: 9:00-9:15am Arrival & welcome 9:15-10:00 Talk 1 (Steve Palmer) 10:00-10:15 Morning break 10:15-11:45 Session I (Eidels, Viemeister, Ruggles, Schloss, Sarris, Biederman) 11:45-12:30 Lunch break 12:30-1:15 Talk 2 (Jim Townsend) 1:15-2:45 Session II (Peterson, Overliet, Orsten, Little, Kellman, Herzog) 2:45-3:00 Afternoon break 3:00-4:45 Session III (Goldstone, Garrigan, Kimchi, Jiang, Franc...

The current study investigates the essential strategies of turn taking conversations from an analytical point view. data were collected everyday conversations, namely face to some students Duhok University identify basic structures talk in interactions Krmanji Kurdish. Stenstrom theory (1994) has been chosen for studying casual conversation analyses Badini Kurdish (4 participants) conversations...