bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
management of craniosynostosis in Australia and New Zealand
Authors: Ziaziaris William Andrew , Marucci Damian D
Published: May 2019

Introduction: The management of syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis is controversial with different units performing various procedures at different points in time and for different reasons. This study was performed to compare protocols of assessment and surgery in craniofacial units in Australasia.
Methods: All paediatric craniofacial surgery centres in Australia and New Zealand were surveyed with respect to their current protocols for the preoperative assessment, intraoperative management and postoperative follow-up of syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis patients.
Results: All eight centres completed the survey with 100 per cent response rate. There was considerable homogeneity in the management of the various synostoses. Differences in management were notable in the preoperative assessments that were offered and the management of midface retrusion in syndromic craniosynostoses.
Conclusion: Single-suture management among surveyed centres was relatively homogenous. Developmental assessment is not routinely performed for single-suture disease but is desired by the majority of surveyed centres. Postoperative CT scans are not commonly used but a number of centres desired routine use of 3D photometry for outcome assessment. In multi-suture cases, expansion of the posterior vault was performed in all cases but management of midface retrusion was variable.
Forgotten Heroes: Family Planning Cadres in Politics of Sexuality in Surakarta (1973-1998)
Authors: Wardhana Adi Putra Surya
Published: May 2019

This paper explains the role of cadres in family planning program (KB) at Surakarta. Family Planning program is the priority of New Order Government to reduce the rapid population growth rate. The program was initially difficult to be accepted by the community.
This is due to the values and norms of society that oppose birth restrictions. Therefore the government uses society approarch strategy by forming family planning cadres. This study uses historical method consist of heuristic, source critique, interpretation, and historiography. This research shows that family planning is a politics of sexuality constructed by the government. FP cadres became discourse knowledge agents of the New Order to achieve legitimacy. However, FP cadres consider that their activity is a service to the state. Their existence shows that women have great power in the social sphere amid patriarchal hegemony in Javanese society.
Struggle of Legal Identity Recognition of Fisherwomen in Ujung Pangkah, Gresik: Feminist Analysis toward Regulation on Fishermen Card and Insurance
Authors: Ismail Naufaludin
Published: May 2019

This paper will focus on feminist analysis of Law No. 7 of 2016 on the Protection and Empowerment of Fishermen, Fish Cultivators and Salt Farmers and Regulation of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries No. 16 of 2016 as the legal basis for policy on Fishermen Card and Insurance. This paper will also analyze the experiences of two fisherwomen in Ujung Pangkah, Gresik, East Java who successfully obtained legal identity in the form of fisher card and insurance as a form of legitimacy and recognition of their identity as fisherwomen. The strong patriarchal culture in various society layers, caused the recognition of the political identity of fisherwomen has become difficult, so a feminist analysis toward policy on fisher card and insurance is needed so that women can engage as active subjects in the policy.
KALİTE YÖNETİMİ VE İLİŞKİSEL PAZARLAMA: SAĞLIK HİZMETLERİNİN PAZARLAMASINDA ETKİN BİR YÖNTEM OLABİLİR Mİ?
Authors: KURŞUN Arzu
Published: May 2019

Günümüzde bir sağlık kuruluşunun rekabet avantajı yaratması, dış ve iç müşteriler olarak görülen çalışanlar, hastalar, sigorta şirketleri v.b. kişi ve kuruluşlarla daha iyi ilişkiler kurabilmesi, rakiplerine nazaran daha öne çıkabilmesi için faaliyetlerine dikkat çekmesi gerekmektedir. Sağlık hizmetlerinin temel amacı, toplumun ihtiyacı olan farklı sağlık hizmetlerini, hastanın istediği kalitede, istediği zamanda ve mümkün olan en düşük maliyetle sunmaktır. Ne var ki, hızla değişen teknoloji, artan maliyetler, artan hasta şikayetleri ve yaygınlaşan iyi bakım talepleri sağlık hizmetlerini daha karmaşık hale getirmiştir. Bu nedenle sağlık hizmetlerinde kalite düzeyinin saptanması ve özellikle iyileştirilmesi aşamalarındaki tüm faaliyetler oldukça önem kazanmıştır. Bu faaliyetlerden biri de, pazarlamadır. İlişkisel pazarlama ise, “çeşitli hizmet örgütlerinde müşteri ilişkilerini arttırmak, korumak ve çekici kılmak” olarak tanımlamaktadır. Sağlık kurumlarında ilişkisel pazarlamaya; özel kurumlar tarafından gerçekleştirilen eğitim seminerleri (Alanında yetkin bir uzmanın danışmanlık hizmeti vermesi), yılda iki kez verilen indirimli check-up hizmetleri, yeni bir hekimin göreve başlamasını mesaj yolu ile bildirme, laboratuvar ve tetkik sonuçlarının kişisel maile gönderilmesi vb. hizmetler, müşterilerin sadakatini güçlendirmektedir.
ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN MÜKEMMELİYETÇİLİK DÜZEYLERİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ
Authors: YILMAZ Fatma Özlem , ERİŞEN Mehmet Akif , BANAZ Merve
Published: May 2019

Çalışmada üniversite öğrencilerinin mükemmeliyetçilik düzeylerinin
çeşitli bağımsız değişkenlere göre farklılık gösterip göstermediğini ortaya
koyabilmek amaçlanmıştır. Çalışma
Konya Selçuk Üniversitesi Alaeddin Keykubat merkez kampüsünde lisans eğitimi
alan öğrenciler üzerinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırma verileri
25.04.2017-20.05.2017 tarihleri arasında toplanmış olup, veri toplama aracı
olarak Frost ve arkadaşları tarafından geliştirilen çok boyutlu
mükemmeliyetçilik ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini Selçuk
Üniversitesi merkez kampüste lisans eğitimi alan 54.200 öğrenci ve örneklemi
ise basit
rastgele örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak ulaşılan 400 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır.

Araştırmaya katılanların
%61,8’i kadınlardan oluşurken, %68,6’sı 21-24 yaş arasındaki katılımcılardan
oluşmaktadır. Ayrıca, katılımcıların %35,5’i’ni fen-edebiyat ve sağlık
bilimleri fakültelerinde eğitim almakta ve yine %35,5’i 2001-3000 TL arası
gelire sahiptir. Bunların yanı sıra katılımcıların %68,3’ü 2,5 ve üzeri ortalamaya
sahip ve %56’sının ailesi il merkezinde ikamet etmektedirler. Çalışmadan elde
edilen bulgulara göre, araştırmaya katılan katılımcıların mükemmeliyetçilik
düzeylerinin, cinsiyetlerine göre farklılık gösterdiği ve erkek katılımcıların
kadın katılımcılara göre genel mükemmeliyetçilik düzeylerinin daha yüksek
olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca katılımcıların yaşları, akademik
ortalamaları, ailelerinin aylık ortalama gelirleri, ikamet yerleri ve fakültelerine
göre mükemmeliyetçilik düzeylerinde anlamlı bir fark bulunamamıştır.
Migrancies and Modernities in Jamal Mahjoubs The Carrier
Authors: Nyman Jopi
Published: May 2019

Postcolonial fictions of dislocation and exile are many, ranging from Sam Selvon and Bessie Head to Salman Rushdie. They map the fates, paths and histories of various migrant groups, often backtracking the routes of slavery and the Middle Passage. By thematizing the representation of history, postcolonial historical novels also pay attention to resistance to European and Western colonization and traditional historical writing.
V.S. NaipauTs The Mimic Men: Narrative Transcending of Order and Disorder
Authors: Huttunen Tuomas
Published: May 2019

The purpose of this article is to examine the construction of migrant identity in the above mentioned novel by Naipaul.
Mutual intelligibility of timber trade terminology in the North Sea countries during the time of the 'Scottish Trade'
Authors: Lorvik Marjorie
Published: May 2019

This essay developed as a side-shoot out of an investigation into the possibility that the distinctiveness of the Scots dialect of the North-East of Scotland, often referred to as the Doric, may to some degree be a result of lexical borrowing from Norwegian in particular.
Mean Streets: Death and Disfiguration in Hawks's Scarface
Authors: Grønstad Asbjørn
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
The influence of English on the languages in the Nordic countries
Authors: Aijmer Karin , Melchers Gunnel
Published: May 2019

English has a special position in the world as a global or international language. This global English is sometimes described as a "lingua franca"; it is used by a large number of speakers in Europe and internationally. It functions as a life-line for the tourist and as a language for communication in the sciences, transport and business world and is important for cultural exchange.
Attitudes towards the English influx in the Nordic countries: A quantitative investigation
Authors: Thøgersen Jacob
Published: May 2019

This paper aims at investigating two questions: The first question is whether some Nordic populations really are more purist than others or if this commonly accepted truth is a mere myth. The second issue is whether a society's official purism or laissez faire is generally acknowledged ideology within the society or, alternatively, if they are parts of particular elite discourses. The paper comprises two independent analyses. The first attempts to empirically investigate the stereotypical image of the sociolinguistic environments of Nordic linguistic communities, here expressed as their attitudes towards English influx. The second attempts a more fine-grained analysis of the attitudes towards English as a product or emblem of belonging to certain social classes. "Social class" is here operationalised as "degree of formal education". In the first study we find the prevalent stereotypical image of the societies roughly reproduced. In the second we find, on the whole, that positive attitudes towards English (and hence anti-purist attitudes) correlate with high levels of formal education irrespective of the linguistic climate of the country. Iceland makes for a noteworthy exception to this trend.
English in Icelandic — A comparison between generations
Authors: Svavarsdóttir Asta
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Coppolas Exhausted Eschatology: Apocalypse Now Reconsidered
Authors: Grønstad Asbjørn
Published: May 2019

In the fall of 1994, as an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I wrote a term paper for Anna Brusutti's "Introduction to Cinema" class. The paper was called "Editing, mise-enscene, and cinematography in a selected sequence from Apocalypse Now" Although the reader's general comments were quite sympathetic to my rather flagrandy formalist analysis of the "Suzie Q" segment, he did point out that I had, to quote a remark scribbled in the margin on the last page, "glossed over... some of the historical imagery." Little did I know then that the question of history in relation to Apocalypse Now would resurface almost a decade later in a slighdy more ceremonial context. Given the chance, am I going to skirt the issue once again? Can we felicitously talk about a form of historical imagery that has not been sublated by what Thomas Elsaesser in his book on Weimar cinema calls the historical imaginary?
Metadiscourse: Mapping Interactions in Academic Writing
Authors: Hyland Ken
Published: May 2019

Metadiscourse in the argument presented here is based on a view of communication as social engagement and in academic contexts reveals the ways writers project themselves into their discourse to signal their understandings of their material and their audience. In this paper I explore how advanced second language writers deploy these resources in a corpus of 240 doctoral and masters dissertations totalling four million words. The analysis suggests that writers use language to offer a credible representation of themselves and their work in different fields, and thus how metadiscourse can be seen as a means of uncovering something of the rhetorical and social distinctiveness of disciplinary communities.
Frames for the semantics of bachelor
Authors: Persson Gunnar
Published: May 2019

In historical lexicology, the sense development of many words is intriguing in that the same word may have widely different meanings in different contexts. Describing a variety spanning from a person's marital status to an academic position, bachelor belongs to this category. In this article I shall examine the reasons for this multiplicity of senses from an historical perspective.
Zinn, Howard, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle. 2008. A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Metropolitan Books. 273 pp. ISBN-10 0-8050-8744-3.
Authors: Paul Ronald
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Spanish EFL undergraduate students' perceptions of learning styles
Authors: Salazar Noguera Joana , Wageman Justin
Published: May 2019

This paper presents the findings of research on learning styles carried out in a Spanish EFL higher education context. The specific objectives of the study were to investigate students‟ perceptions of their learning styles and to determine students‟ responses to the identification of their learning styles using the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) adapted by McCarthy (1980). Participants included 53 students from an English Philology degree program. The results showed that most of the students had a Diverging style and an Accommodating style. The findings also suggested that students had a positive reaction to the identification of their learning styles, despite its novelty in the Spanish EFL university context. Most of the students‟ perceptions of their own learning styles concurred with the results obtained from the Kolb LSI. More research on educational practices and university instruction that have to do with learning style concepts is needed.
Student perceptions of English studies in Bulgaria
Authors: Katsarska Milena , Keskinova Donka
Published: May 2019

This paper sets out and discusses the findings of a comprehensive questionnaire survey conducted among English Studies (ES) students in three Bulgarian universities: the University of Sofia (SU), The University of Plovdiv (PU) and the University of Veliko Turnovo (VTU) between December 2007 and May 2008. The discussion registers the condition of ES from the point of view of students at various levels of university programmes. The responses received give data about (a) the ES student constituency; (b) student attitudes toward the discipline and programme in the course of engaging with them; and (c) student expectations at the points of entry and departure in terms of content, delivery, their interests and career aspirations.
Prosopopoeia and classical topoi in W. S. Merwin’s “François de Maynard 1582-1646”
Authors: Lie Sissel
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Applying transnational strategies locally: English as a medium of instruction in Swedish higher education
Authors: Söderlundh Hedda
Published: May 2019

Analysing student interaction at an international university in Sweden, this article investigates how the transnational strategy of using English as a medium of instruction can be (re)constructed by students in a local context. The analysis focuses on students’ expectations—or norms—for when it is appropriate to use English, and shows that English medium-instruction does not necessarily mean that students speak English all the time. The local language Swedish is used in connection to teaching and students establish local norms for when, how and with whom it is appropriate—or inappropriate—to speak English. A conclusion is that although language choice at the international university is influenced by global factors, it is still firmly a local construction.
Anne Bushby, translator of Hans Christian Andersen
Authors: Hjørnager Pedersen Viggo
Published: May 2019

In his 1954 book on Hans Christian Andersen, Elias Bredsdorff devotes a chapter to the translator Mrs Bushby, but criticizes her work severely.1 His point of departure is the traditional academic one that a translation's 'faithfulness' to the original is the only yardstick for an assessment of its worth. In this article, however, I shall argue that Mrs Bushby is in many ways an interesting translator, who did not see Andersen as simply a children's writer, and that some of her divergences from Andersen's text are not mistakes but deliberate adaptations for the benefit of her audience in Victorian Britain.
Motivating English language study among Master’s students: The case for summary writing
Authors: Vang Pamela
Published: May 2019

The internationalisation of university studies has resulted in an increasing use of English, a language which many students assume they master sufficiently well. This can lead to resistance to devoting time to language improvement. The motivation to work with language skills can be promoted by integrating language classes into discipline specific summary writing. This approach is showing some potential and incorporates reading skills with writing, grammar, peer critique and discussion. Summary writing also facilitates a critical study of different texts and their structure.
Lexical bundles in three oral corpora of university students
Authors: Sánchez Hernández Purificación
Published: May 2019

On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in three corpora of spoken English, one of them of native speakers of English and the remaining two of non-native speakers of English, corresponding to university students in their first year of an English Studies degree and to the same students after two years of university instruction. The study focuses on three major characteristics: the overall distribution of bundles, their typical structures and their functions. The findings show significant differences in the types of lexical bundles used by native and non-native students, as well as in their structure and function. Our results support the idea that lexical bundles are important components in oral discourse. One of the pedagogical implications of this paper is that Spanish students should be exposed to more samples of spoken language.
Writing war: Owen, Spender, poetic forms and concerns for a world in turmoil
Authors: Sánchez-Pardo Esther
Published: May 2019

There is a significant shift in the literary treatment of war between the trench poets and the subsequent generation of British poets, an understandable one given their very different experience and investment in the war itself. This paper discusses a selection of poems from Wilfred Owen’s (1893–1918) and from Stephen Spender’s (1909–1995) oeuvres as products of their different historical moments in order to reflect upon crucial transformations in poetic forms—especially the elegy—and concerns in the interwar period, a time open to the violent and chaotic experiences that a turbulent history was producing.
The “intimate enemies”: Edward Dowden, W. B. Yeats and the Formation of Character
Authors: Armstrong Charles I.
Published: May 2019

Stung by Edward Dowden’s reluctance to endorse the Irish Literary Revival, W. B. Yeats distanced himself publicly from the TCD Professor. This act of distancing has largely been accepted by subsequent scholarship as a reflection of Dowden’s lack of influence on Yeats. Despite obvious disagreements on some key points, this essay will argue that Yeats is close to Dowden on a number of issues, by tracing their intimate dialogue about the writings of George Eliot, Shakespeare and Goethe. The concept of formation of character—an English translation of the German Bildung—will prove central to their related responses to the question of what sort of life is best suited to further the development of literary gifts. These findings are framed by a discussion of Yeats’s profound, and often underestimated, indebtedness to Victorian culture and ideas, and the essay also traces the biographical background to these two writers’ changing relationship.
Recurrent Multiword Sequences in L2 English Spoken Academic Discourse: Developmental Perspectives on 1st and 3rd Year Undergraduate Presentational Speech
Authors: Baumgarten Nicole
Published: May 2019

Little is known about the development of second language (L2) capacities in L2 users located in multilingual environments where more than one language is a viable communication tool and users can decide which to use for which purpose. Adopting a socially-grounded perspective on L2 learning, this study explores university-based L2 English learning in a multilingual learning context in Denmark. 46 academic presentations from first and final year undergraduate students were analysed for the users’ use of recurrent multiword sequences as a measure of development of routinized discourse production. This analysis was complemented by an analysis of the users’ language use habits and socialization patterns. The analyses revealed a negative development in pre-patterned L2 use between first and final year students. These results call for a reconsideration of academic L2 English instruction in multilingual environments outside native English-speaking settings, where L2 learning trajectories appear to be able to be stunted by L2 users’ overall language use habits.
& she was like “O_O”: Animation of Reported Speech on Twitter
Authors: Wikström Peter
Published: May 2019

This study relates discourse-pragmatic aspects of the use of the quotatives SAY, BE like, BE all, and GO to the question of the supposed or actual spoken-likeness of written computermediated communication (CMC). 1,800 tokens of reported speech, collected from Twitter, were analyzed in a “constructed dialogue” framework (Tannen, 2007). The results show that users of Twitter employ various CMC devices to animate and modally enrich reported speech, especially in speech reports with BE like, BE all, and GO. They perform a style of communication that is reminiscent of conversational speech, even while having qualities that seem to belong uniquely to CMC.
Cross-linguistic studies at the interface between lexis and grammar
Authors: Aijmer Karin , Hasselgård Hilde
Published: May 2019

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A corpus-based study of aspect: still and already + verb phrase constructions into Spanish
Authors: Rabadán Rosa
Published: May 2019

This paper explores still and already + verb phrase constructions, their semantics, and the resources Spanish uses to convey their meanings. The aim is to explore some of the ways in which the grammars of the two languages, English and Spanish, encode aspectual transitions. The contrastive procedure is based on the parallel corpus P-ACTRES, and combines qualitative and quantitative corpus analysis: the English→Spanish equivalences are qualitatively identified and their relevance is assessed quantitatively. The similarities and differences are analyzed and used as a basis to formulate some empirically-grounded (although necessarily partial) considerations on cross-linguistic lexis-grammar relations. The results also raise questions about contrast and grammaticalization across the languages.
Some binominal size noun constructions in English and French: a contrastive corpus-based perspective
Authors: Brems Lieselotte
Published: May 2019

This paper compares binominal size noun constructions in English and French from a contrastive perspective based on analysis of parallel and monolingual corpus data. It is argued that, even though there are structural similarities between the constructions in both languages, there are differences in the frequency of their use and constructional equivalence is only partial. There are differences in terms of premodification potential, which can be explained by typological differences between the two languages. Another difference lies in the formal reflexes and agreement features, which is again in keeping with the typological profiles of both languages. Translation equivalence is also typically only partial and depends on the use (e.g. quantifier versus head use).
A comparable-corpus based approach to the expression of obligation across English and French
Authors: Lewis Diana M.
Published: May 2019

A French-English comparable corpus of political discourse is used to investigate the expression of obligation across the two languages. The aims of the study are to look at the expression of obligation in the comparable genres in the two languages and to compare the contexts of use of deontic modal and semi-modal verbs, i.e. comparing their frequencies in contextual frames characterized by agentivity, polarity and event type. The focus is on the modal and semi-modal verbs must, need to, have to, devoir and falloir. While have to and falloir are more frequent than must and devoir respectively in the spoken languages, the reverse is the case in the political speeches. The five verbs are found to occur in similar contexts within and across the two languages in the genre in question. The study highlights the potential impact of genre on frequency and distribution and the interactions between genre-based patterns and ongoing change in the wider languages.
Cross-linguistic analysis of discourse variation across registers
Authors: Kunz Kerstin , Lapshinova- Koltunski Ekaterina
Published: May 2019

The present study deals with variation in discourse relations in different registers of English and German. Our previous analyses have been concerned with the systemic contrasts between English and German, cf. Kunz & Steiner (2013 a/b), Kunz & Lapshinova (to appear) and have addressed some cross-linguistic differences with regard to textual realizations of selected subtypes of cohesion. In our current work, our focus is on the empirical analysis of cross-linguistic variation between registers. In order to obtain a more comprehensive picture, we investigate three main types of cohesion in combination: co-reference, substitution and conjunction and their subtypes, cf. Halliday & Hasan (1976). We extract instantiations of cohesive devices from an English-German corpus of spoken and written registers. The data is analyzed with statistical procedures which show that subcorpora can be grouped along particular combinations of cohesive devices.
‘Hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ’: On verb attraction in Old English
Authors: Johannesson Nils-Lennart
Published: May 2019

This paper deals with a phenomenon in Old English syntax labelled ‘verb attraction’. In an Old English clause with two verbs, such as an auxiliary verb and the following nonfinite verb, or an object-control verb such as hatan ‘to command’ plus the infinitive verb form in the infinitive clause governed by hatan, verb attraction makes the non-finite verb form leave its canonical syntactic position to become adjoined to the higher finite verb. The paper explores some properties of clauses where verb attraction is at work, and ends with a consideration of the usefulness of verb attraction in poetry.
A proposed method of clarifying the meaning of contentious political-cultural words: The case of country and nation
Authors: Mobärg Mats
Published: May 2019

This article discusses how linguistic-combinatory methods can be used to add precision to our understanding of contentious words from the political-cultural field. Eleven English authors’ use of the words country and nation has been investigated and the focus is placed on two authors who show an especially frequent use of nation relative to country, Shakespeare and Marie Corelli. It is shown that nation tends to select human negative-emotional lexical companions to a higher degree than country, and that this difference between the two words reflects their original etymological meanings. It is proposed that a more developed test design could be fruitfully used on a larger material.
Conditional clauses in novice academic English: A comparison of Norwegian learners and native speakers
Authors: Hasselgård Hilde
Published: May 2019

This study concerns the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of conditional clauses in novice academic English. The material comes from the VESPA corpus, representing Norwegian advanced learners of English, and the BAWE corpus, representing English L1students in British universities. The learners are shown to overuse conditionals in general, but to mostly master their syntactic and semantic features. The overuse may be associated with the interpersonal functions of conditionals. The epistemic use in argument building is more apparent among the native speakers.
Underplayed Rivalry: Patronage and the Marlovian Subtext of Summer’s Last Will and Testament
Authors: Sivefors Per
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Translating in and for higher education in Sweden: Some reflections from a practitioner
Authors: Schröter Thorsten
Published: May 2019

The English language plays an increasingly important role in Swedish higher education— and not just in English studies. More and more types of university-related documents are either written in English from the outset or translated into the language, for the benefit of students, employees and other interested parties not fluent in Swedish (and far from always native speakers of English either). This brings about an increased need for translation and review services, which are often provided in-house. The present contribution offers a few reflections regarding these types of services, covering some general issues as well as a number of concrete challenges for the translators.
Introduction – Languages in contrast 20 years on
Authors: Nordrum Lene , Oksefjell Ebeling Signe , Hasselgård Hilde
Published: May 2019

This special issue of the Nordic Journal of English Studies comprises papers from the symposium Languages in Contrast held in Lund 5 December 2014 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Nordic Parallel Corpus Project which led to the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC), the Swedish-English Parallel Corpus (ESPC) and the Finnish-English Contrastive Corpus Studies Project (FECCS). When they were first compiled, the parallel corpora opened up new possibilities for empirical, corpus-based questions about language relationships and translations (see Johansson 2007, 2012: 1).
The way of the world: the colligational framework “the N1 of the N2” and its Norwegian correspondences
Authors: Hasselgård Hilde
Published: May 2019

The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus is used to study the colligational framework “the N1 of the N2” (e.g. the way of the world). The aim is to discover recurrent patterns in the lexical and semantic make-up of such sequences in English and their correspondences in Norwegian. The correspondences are described in terms of both structure and meaning. In spite of similarities in the structural potential of English and Norwegian noun phrases, the majority “the N1 of the N2” sequences have divergent correspondences in Norwegian. This points to differences between the languages in their preferred lexicogrammatical patterns. The study confirms the feasibility of carrying out crosslinguistic studies on the basis of patterns of function words.
Contrasting translations
Authors: Egan Thomas
Published: May 2019

This paper argues that corpora containing translations of the same source text into two or more target languages represent a sounder base for comparing linguistic expressions in several languages than do corpora containing data from just two languages, whether they be unidirectional or bidirectional. The argument is illustrated with comparisons of some prepositional constructions in English and French using data from the Nor. – Eng. – Fr. – Ger. part of the Oslo Multilingual Corpus, and some constructions in Swedish and Norwegian using the overlapping original texts in the ENPC and ESPC.
Thomas Lodge and Elizabethan Republicanism
Authors: Hadfield Andrew
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Negative intensification in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers: A corpus-based study
Authors: Palacios Martínez Ignacio M.
Published: May 2019

Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature. However, the specific use of intensification on negatives (i.e. it didn’t do any harm at all, I hadn’t the faintest idea who he was) has received much less attention. The aim of this paper is to identify and explore the resources used by British adults and teenagers in the intensification of negative constructions. A second focus of interest will be the extent to which differences exist here in the language of adults and teenagers, given that the latter are, broadly speaking, more prone to use intensification. Findings indicate that the strengthening of negatives in English can be achieved in different ways: a) by means of a number of non-assertive and negative polarity-oriented items, such as in the slightest, in the least, at all, even; b) the repetition of the adverb never or the combination never ever; c) cases of multiple negation or negative concord intended to heighten a negative meaning); d) negative polarity collocations and idiomatic expressions; and e) adverbs such as definitely, absolutely, certainly plus a negative (not/no or nothing). Teenagers tend to intensify negatives more than adults, although these differences are not so clearly marked as expected, and while the former prefer the use of swear words and idiomatic or semi-idiomatic expressions together with locutions such as no way, the latter opt more often for negatively oriented polarity sensitive items.
Facts and things: Advanced ESL learners’ use of discourse-organising nouns
Authors: Tåqvist Marie Kristin
Published: May 2019

This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and thing, in a corpus of Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker students and from expert writing in this respect. The L2 student writing was found to approximate the L1 student writing and the expert writing in several ways, including overall frequency of DON usage, but with less variety and more frequent occurrences of semantically vague types and types expressing attitude and involvement.
Display and referential questions: Effects on student responses
Authors: Wright Brenda M.
Published: May 2019

It has been claimed by several researchers, (notably Gass, 1997; Long, 1996; Pica, 1994; Swain, 1995) that, according to the interaction hypothesis of second language acquisition, negotiated interaction facilitates SLA. Swain (1995) coined the output hypothesis, which suggests that pushed output encourages fluency, gap-noticing, and hypothesis testing while controlling and internalizing linguistic knowledge. The current study focuses on display and referential questions in relation to quantity of output, and examines this with regard to researchers’ claims about SLA benefits. The output of fifty-two Japanese adult EFL learners was recorded during a communicative activity that used display and referential questions to elicit description. The output was then analysed quantitatively using units of length and complexity (Brock, 1986; Chaudron, 1988) to examine if question type affected output; and instances of pushed output negotiation for meaning were also investigated. A qualitative exploration of students’ reflections on their output for the two question types showed common perceived differences and insights into links with motivation. This study indicates that, overall, referential questions in the interactive context of a communicative classroom may be beneficial in promoting enhanced student output, negotiation and SLA.
Failed patriarchs, familial villains, and slaves to rum: White masculinity on trial in African American mulatta melodrama
Authors: Pochmara Anna
Published: May 2019

The article analyzes three African American mulatta melodramas from a masculinity studies perspective. Referring to the concepts of genteel patriarchy, the patrician paradigm, as well as the nineteenth-century reform discourse of temperance and self-restrained manliness, I demonstrate that the texts selected for analysis challenge the southern upper-class ideology of masculinity by contrasting it with northern mythology rooted in self-discipline. Yet despite their critique of southern men’s cultural practices and myths, the novels also explicitly point out that white gentlemen in the South fail to meet their own standards and definitions of masculinity. Finally, the uncanny similarity between the representations of white upper-class men in the novels and minstrel images of blackness makes it possible to read the mulatta melodramas as implicitly challenging contemporary retrogressionist mythology.
Meta-Communicative Expressions and Situational Variation of Stance Marking: I say and I tell (you) in Early Modern English Dialogues
Authors: Landert Daniela
Published: May 2019

In this study, I compare the functions of I say and I tell (you) in the different text types in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 (CED). The text types differ with respect to a number of parameters, such as the authenticity of the dialogue, the stability of the participant roles, the formality of the setting, and the dominant verbal activities. I show that the two expressions are used with a range of different functions, most of which express the speaker’s stance, and I argue that the differences in function are related to differences in the communicative setting and the roles of the participants.
Curses or Threats? Debating the Power of Witches’ Words in 17th-Century Scottish Courtrooms
Authors: Leitner Magdalena
Published: May 2019

17th-century Scottish court records present a perspective on witchcraft language that is unavailable in Early Modern English trials, namely that of defence lawyers. This paper offers a discursive analysis of speech act functions attributed by trial parties to alleged witches’ utterances in three 17th-century Scottish witchcraft cases. Culpeper and Semino’s (2000) curse definitions are combined with Jucker and Taavitsainen’s (2000: 74) “pragmatic space” to capture the spectrum of witchcraft speech acts. The examination of metacommunicative expressions suggests that threats were key witchcraft speech acts with different degrees of performativity, ranging from venting anger to effective harm-causing curses. The supernatural dimension of witches’ threats is absent in modern threats.
“So moche ye owe me”: Speech-Like Representation in Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English
Authors: Moore Colette
Published: May 2019

Historical pragmatics of the last two decades has continued to refine its tools for examining the relationship of speech and writing (e.g. Culpeper and Kytö 2010). As our methodology has improved, it is helpful to return to case studies to see how different models apply to particular materials, and the particular constraints of each text. One depiction of the everyday English of people on the street in late-medieval England can be found in William Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English, a late fourteenth-century printed edition of a thirteenth-century French/Flemish manual for conversation and vocabulary. Caxton’s text provides a two-column format in French and English which contains, among other things, an illustrative marketplace dialogue between a fictional seller and a hypothetical buyer. This interchange, between a female cloth merchant and a male purchaser, exemplifies many of the features that we might expect in colloquial English: a higher number of pragmatic lexical items and interpersonal words, a more highly connected style of second-person pronouns and vocatives, and a greater use of sentence structures like questions and exclamations. And yet, it is fundamentally constructed speech rather than a faithful reporting of an actual conversation, and the very features that serve as markers of its colloquial style (like vocatives) also characterize its nature as written discourse. This analysis examines the textual context of speech-like representation, presenting an account of the pragmatic aspects of genre, style, and discourse that shape the depiction of the mercantile conversation in Caxton’s text.
“I’m stating my case”
Authors: Herriman Jennifer
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Disgusting John Marston: Sensationalism and the Limits of A Post-Modern Marston
Authors: Brown Georgia
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Moors, Social Anxiety and Horror in Thomas Rawlins’s The Rebellion
Authors: Fåhraeus Anna
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Foreign accent, cognitive load and intelligibility of EMI lectures
Authors: Jensen Christian , Thøgersen Jacob
Published: May 2019

This study investigated the effect of foreign accent on the understanding of spoken texts in two different contexts: (1) when listeners extract surface level meaning of simple utterances, labelled “intelligibility in simple tasks” (IS) below, and (2) when they answer content questions to a complex text, labelled “intelligibility in complex tasks” (IC) below. We hypothesised that foreign accented speech would require more cognitive processing in all situations, but that it would have little detrimental effect on intelligibility in the simpler of the two tasks. We expected decreased intelligibility as a result of combining the increased cognitive workload of the foreign accent with the higher cognitive demands of the second task. In other words, the study investigated an interaction effect between task complexity and processing difficulties caused by accented speech. In Experiment 1, IS and processing times were measured in a sentence verification task with ten native and non-native speakers of English. Two speakers, with similar intelligibility but yielding different reaction times, were selected for Experiment 2, which measured IC using simulated university lectures. The results indicate the hypothesised interaction between context and the understanding of accented speech. We discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of this, as well as the relevance of our results for Englishmedium instruction at Nordic universities.
‘I will re-create Finnegans Wake anyway’: Joseph Beuys reads James Joyce
Authors: Lerm Hayes Christa-Maria
Published: May 2019

How did Joseph Beuys read James Joyce’s work? Beuys’ annotated copy of Finnegans Wake, as well as ‘Ulysses Extension’ drawings provide close insight into the artist’s thinking. Beuys’ work expands or ‘furthers’ Joyce in sculptural substances, language and by social means. Beuys used Joyce, especially Finnegans Wake, as a reference point of extraordinary suggestive power for the duration of his artistic career. Beuys’ current reappraisal lets us better understand his importance in pioneering ecological practices, in conceiving of art as an eco-system that sustains discursive and societal ‘force fields’— and, through this, glimpse possibilities for grasping Joyce’s ideal, indirect efficacy today.
Listening to images, reading the records: The inclusive experience in British progressive rock of the 1960s and 1970s
Authors: Adamczewski Tymon
Published: May 2019

The article concerns the form of experience offered by the British progressive rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the light of the tendency to view the genre through the prism of modernism. The materiality of key musical albums within the genre—through elaborate aesthetic construction and reliance on literary ideas—played an indispensable role in interacting with the records. I argue that through constructing a narrative message in the form of record covers, progressive rock could be treated as a literary form which functions according to what Nicholas Royle describes as veering and which allows to avoid problems associated with considering the genre as modern or postmodern.
‘We refugees’: (Un)othering in visual narratives on displacement
Authors: Smyczyńska Katarzyna
Published: May 2019

This article focuses on four contemporary visual narratives which deal with the theme of (literal or metaphorical) refuge, and its difficult circumstances and consequences. The books under discussion have been chosen for their specific visual poetics, which acquires a significant narrative function in each story. The narratives’ portrayals of displacement are evocative for at least two reasons. First, they make metaphorical links between the past and the present, appealing to cultural memory and reworking it in various ways. Second, they communicate their ethical message relying on the affective potential of the material qualities of the medium—the book, and on the emotional impact of embodied memory evoked by visual means.
A typology of English borrowings in Norwegian
Authors: Sunde Anne Mette
Published: May 2019

English outweighs other languages as a source for linguistic borrowing in present-day Norwegian. The aim of this article is to propose a lucid typology of English borrowings in Norwegian that takes into account phraseological as well as structural borrowing—two borrowing dimensions that have received relatively little scholarly attention, and where multiple terminology is in use. The typology is based on a division between word-level, phraseological and structural borrowing on the one hand and a formal division between direct and indirect borrowing on the other. A second goal is to illustrate the typology with recently emerged loans that can provide an updated picture of the influence exerted by English on the Norwegian language.
Students’ perspectives on English medium instruction: A survey-based study at a Norwegian university
Authors: Bukve Trude
Published: May 2019

English medium instruction (EMI) in Nordic higher education. This study explores students’ attitudes towards EMI in the Norwegian study context. A total of 346 students within the fields of law, philosophy, and natural science responded to a questionnaire and evaluated statements concerning the language use in the educational context. Indexes measuring confidence in English skills and attitudes towards EMI were constructed and analysed using multiple regression. Natural science students and students with high confidence had significantly more positive attitudes towards EMI than students who were less confident in their English skills. Furthermore, confidence correlated positively with students’ plans to study abroad, which could suggest that confidence in English is a predominant factor influencing students’ choices of whether or not to go abroad as part of their education.
Introduction
Authors: Wikberg Kay
Published: May 2019

The editorial board hopes with this special issue on metaphor to illustrate some tendencies in current metaphor research. In our ‘Call for papers’ we had originally signalled that we wanted contributions dealing with both linguistic and literary approaches. In the end we received only one paper on literary discourse (Enrico Monti). It is obvious that cognitive semantics and conceptual metaphor theory have first of all attracted linguists although cognitive-metaphoric analyses applied to literature are not difficult to find.1 Metaphor has become a major aspect of the study of language and thought with the result that the nature of metaphor and the use of metaphor in different types of discourse are being investigated from a number of perspectives.
Introduction: Culture and class
Authors: Paul Ronald
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Race, gender and class in the autobiography of Huey P. Newton
Authors: Avril Chloé
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Colonial pedigree: Class, masculinity, and history in the early Rhodesian novel
Authors: Donovan Stephen
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
‘You’re fuckin’ amazing, by the way’: Marginalisation and recovery in Roddy Doyle’s Paula Spencer
Authors: Persson Åke
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Electrifying Performances and Brains that Fuse: Metaphor and the Cognitive Function of Electricity
Authors: Johansson Falck Marlene
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.
Plain Tales from the Hills as Emergent Literature
Authors: Lindgrén Inna
Published: May 2019

No abstract available.