APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Rhetorical structure of research paper introductions in computer science: a comparative analysis
Volume 9, Issue №3, 2023
Research paper introductions are considered challenging, especially for academic writers whose native language is different from English. Despite the large interest in the rhetorical organization of research papers ...
Lexical, referential and syntactic ambiguities as Internet jokes
Volume 9, Issue №2, 2023
This study investigated how Internet users construct a sense of ambiguity in the English language to make funny jokes through Internet memes. Its aim was to examine the ambiguity ...
Research article discussion moves and steps in papers on medicine: academic literacy and respect for readers
Volume 9, Issue №2, 2023
Discussion section of a research article (RA) is an essential part of a paper where findings are interpreted and built into a broader context. This study looks at a ...
Language complexity across sub-styles and genres in legal Russian
Volume 9, Issue №2, 2023
The purpose of the paper is to find out the differences in linguistic complexity between legal documents, opposed by domain, sub-style and genre. The authors explore the large and ...
Relexification and dialect levelling in the genesis of creoles: the case of the Arabic-based creole, Nubi
Volume 9, Issue №2, 2023
This paper addresses the genesis of Nubi, an Arabic-based creole, spoken in Uganda and Kenya. A novel account is offered using the relexification approach (Lefebvre, 1998, 2009). The study ...
Boosting Speech-to-Text software potential
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
The article focuses on finding ways of boosting efficiency and accuracy of Speech-to-Text (STT)-powered input. The effort is triggered by the growing popularity of the software among professional translators, ...
Lexical and syntactic features of academic Russian texts: a discriminant analysis
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
This article presents three mathematical models to differentiate academic texts from three subject discourses written in Russian (i.e., Philological, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences) which further enable design and automated ...
English possessives and the definiteness effect in there-sentences: a corpus-based study
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
This paper investigates one of the instances of the definiteness effect: the access of the prenominal possessives “my/your/its/her/his/their/our” to the postverbal noun phrases in existential there-sentences. The definiteness effect ...
Analysis of incorrect POS-tagging in student texts with linguistic errors in German
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
The electronic learner corpus of student texts in German, the PACT, contains the parts-of-speech (POS) tagging. This markup is performed automatically using RFTagger. Since the texts of the corpus ...
Metaphoric construal and its effect on gaze behavior of the readers with better and worse working memory
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
Language creativity studies are now exploring new experimental methods which test the readers’ figurative thought. In the current work, we address the gaze behavior as contingent on figurative language ...
Trump’s image in a political cartoon: analysis of expressive potential
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
This study is an attempt to describe the expressive means used in American political cartoons covering the most prominent events before and during Donald Trump’s presidency. Political cartoon as ...
Revealing the ideology of Omicron discourse in CNN Indonesia news
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
After the emergence of the Covid-19 virus new Omicron variant at the end of 2021, news in various mass media resurfaced, especially in Indonesia. Digitalization in the world of ...
Rhetorical moves of research article abstracts: а comparative study of national and international journals
Volume 8, Issue №1, 2022
As the summary of a full article, an abstract plays a pivotal role in communicating the essential ideas of the work. This discourse study aims to investigate the rhetorical ...
English-Indonesian crisis translation: accuracy and adequacy of Covid-19 terms translated by three MT tools
Volume 8, Issue №1, 2022
This study focuses on one basic question: how accurate and adequate are the three MT tools, namely Google Translate, Bing and Systran, in generating Covid-19 terms? It measures mainly ...
Leveraging VBA in translation
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
The article is focused on finding ways for the VBA application in translation. Most of the macro code solutions available online date back to the early 2000s. Given the ...
Development dynamics and cognitive-semantic parameters of English ditransitive construction: verification from the perspective of corpus linguistics
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
The relevance of the paper is substantiated by the representation of the analysis of utterances generated on the template of ditransitive construction via the methods of cognitive and ...
Experience in localizing official websites of Chinese companies on the example of the brand LENOVO (联想)
Volume 6, Issue №4, 2020
The article examines the definition of localization from the point of view of the intersection of various disciplines, and also draws a parallel with the concept of translation, highlights ...
Strategies used in the translation of scientific texts to fill the lexical gap
Volume 5, Issue №3, 2019
The present study is aimed at exploring the strategies used in translating scientific texts to overcome challenges which translators faced for selecting suitable Persian chemistry equivalents. For this purpose, ...
Specifics of profound language monitoring of English Internet-discourse
Volume 5, Issue №1, 2019
This study is a cognitive scientific research, taking into account linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. This makes it possible to illustrate the interrelation of the language and mentality of ...
AN OVERVIEW OF THE TYPOLOGY OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE BASED ON WALS DATABASE
Volume 4, Issue №2, 2018
The study of the typology of languages seems to be approaching languages at a micro level. For instance and with reference to the WALS database, the study of ...
