In high‐stakes oral proficiency testing as well in everyday encounters, accent is the most salient aspect of nonnative speech. Prior studies English language learners’ (ELLs’) pronunciation have focused on single parameters English, such vowel duration, fundamental frequency related to intonation, or temporal measures speech production. The present study addresses a constellation suprasegmental characteristics speakers accented combining indices rate, pause, and intonation. It examines...

As the numbers of international teaching assistants (ITAs) continue to increase, cross-cultural communication has become an integral part academic life in universities. ITA instruction programs recognize that successful between ITAs and their students requires ability use language appropriate classroom context awareness expectations native-speaking discourse participants. One area is frequently overlooked this discussion its intonation structure. This study compares one intonational feature,...

This article surveys seven ELT texts that are organized around the teaching of functions in order to explicate several problems evident their presentation speech acts. A specific act sequence, complaint/commiseration, is focus analysis. behaviour highlighted demonstrate mismatch between data from spontaneous speech, and contrived through native speaker intuitions textbook developers. first problem intuition about realization often differs greatly way which naturalistic patterns out. Second,...

Recognition of incipient change in the status English as an international language has yielded a small but growing area research addressing nonnative speaker to (NNS-NNS) interaction. Issues concerning intelligibility are key focus this investigation, particularly native models have limited relevance these new contexts use. This review highlights current from diverse areas applied linguistics that addressed aspects both experimental and real-world settings. Current findings suggest processes...

This case study extends the findings of Pickering et al. 2009 to domain conversational humor. We find that, as was in humorous narratives, humor is not marked by higher pitch or volume, increased speech rate, significant pauses. Unlike narrative humor, produced at a lower and slower rate than non-humorous parts text. that smiling laughter tend occur with

To provide new insights into heroin users' eating patterns in order to inform nutritional interventions.Seventy-seven audio-recorded in-depth interviews which elicited detailed data on patterns.Community and residential drug services, pharmacies peer support groups Southern England, UK.Forty current or ex-heroin users (21 men 19 women), of whom 37 (20 17 women) were re-interviewed after 3 months.Audio transcribed verbatim, coded systematically analysed inductively.Heroin influenced by...

The paper presents the analysis of humor found in four dyadic conversations. results conversational data match those previous studies (Pickering et al., 2009): no differences were volume or speech-rate between humorous pause units and non-humorous ones. Similarly, pauses not to mark turns. However, result that punch-lines showed lower pitch than parts text was replicated: significant from Smiling is only a general sense “setting frame” integrated (i.e., co-extensive) with humor.

This study examines linguistic co-occurrence patterns in the discourse of individuals with communication impairments who use augmentative and alternative (AAC) devices workplace by comparing them to those non-AAC users similar job settings. A typical workweek (≈ 40 hours) per focal participant (four AAC; four non-AAC) was recorded transcribed create a specialized corpus approximately 464,000 words at time this analysis. multidimensional analysis along functional dimensions, following Biber...

The ethics of research representation are rarely discussed. Yet can have a significant impact on participants and audiences. This paper draws some the limited body accounts ethical challenges experienced in representing others qualitative research. These make clear that researchers often to choose between 'competing goods' when others, such as participant control over what is presented how, researchers' 'interpretive authority', how represent participants' speech. decisions frequently...

The investigation of pragmatic strategies in ELF interaction is a relatively new area research. This paper examines intonation as resource interaction. There considerable research pointing to the critical role played by intonational structure NS-based discourse establish state informational and social convergence (Brazil, communicative value English, Cambridge University Press, 1997; Chun, Discourse L2, John Benjamins, 2002; Hewings, International Review Applied Linguistics 33: 251–65, 1995;...

Research that has explored the lives of men and women recovering from heroin addiction reported users often claim they ‘just want to be normal’. Working within a Foucauldian tradition, we argue in this article notions ‘governmentality’ ‘norm’ are especially apposite understanding ubiquity aspiration. Here focus not on formal institutions governance encourage individuals adhere social, cultural political norms, but rather seek explore users’ accounts normality as envisaged expressed. The...

Background Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease and serious global-health problem with over 230 million people requiring treatment, of which the majority live in Africa. In Uganda, 4 are infected. Extensive parasitological data exist on infection prevalence, intensities impact repeated praziquantel mass drug administration (MDA). However, how perceptions schistosomiasis shape prevention treatment practices their implications for control measures much less well understood. Methods...

This paper is a report of an exploration older people's experiences substance use in the context ageing, and its impact on health, quality life, relationships service use.

Much of what we think know about the performance humor relies on our intuitions prosody (e.g., "it's all timing"); however, this has never been empirically tested. Thus, central question addressed in article is whether speakers mark punch lines jokes prosodically and, if so, how. To answer question, unites both recently emerged research agenda grounding spoken discourse analysis precision and verifiability acoustic a within field focused "performance" humorous narratives. This presents an...

Abstract The notion of timing in humor is often mentioned as a very significant issue, and yet little has been written about it. paper reviews the scant literature on subject narrows down definition comprising pauses speech rate. discussions see it either speeding up or slowing Using data collected from twenty joke performances, we show that speakers do not significantly raise lower their rate at around punch line. other common assumption lines are preceded by pauses. Our no evidence...

Abstract This paper presents an overview of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Non-AAC Workplace Corpus (ANAWC) ( Pickering & Bruce, 2009 ). The corpus is first resource its kind that makes it possible to systematically study typical language patterns both AAC users comparable non-AAC in workplace. We discuss origin give account methodology used for collection transcription. also introduce several publications demonstrate novel qualitative quantitative findings can be...

Abstract Background Bowel cancer screening in England is initially carried out using a home testing kit, with those who require further first being referred to an assessment clinic. During COVID-19, these clinics became ‘virtual’ (telephone or video-call) where previously they had only been held face-to-face. Methodology A before and after study design was constructed examine the impact of this change clinic type on key programme metrics. Results Conclusions The data showed fewer people...