A5081736060- linguistics and terminology studies
- Lexicography and Language Studies
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social Media and Politics
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Freedom of Expression and Defamation
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- French Language Learning Methods
- Education and Cultural Studies
- Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Vytautas Magnus University
2009-2024
Vilnius University
2021
The present study provides a snapshot of Polish and Lithuanian linguistic landscapes (LLs) in several resort cities situated the border areas two countries. data consists 515 digital pictures multilingual signs collected central thus most touristic parts cities. main objectives this research are to identify authorship signs, determine types establishments that employ signage, analyse which languages coexist popular tourist destinations. interpretation results is grounded on interrelation...
Abstract The present paper aims to report on the preliminary findings from initial stages of ongoing research hate speech in Lithuanian online comments. Comments are marked strongly by such phenomena as flaming and trolling; therefore, this genre we can expect a high degree hostility, obscenity, incidence insults aggressive lexis, which inflict harm individuals or organizations. goal current is thus make an attempt identify some features verbal aggression applying principles instruments...
This study applies textual analysis and CDA to examine linguistic or discursive structures of war rhetoric with samples selected from speeches Vladimir Putin Russia Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine. In selecting analyze the current in Ukraine as a case study, research results highlight implications by two leaders for global peace, especially analyzing transformations language use broadly conceptualized 'discourse' serve historical, cultural political purposes their future relations Ukraine, its...
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and applications in the diagnosis impairment. This article presents results a study investigating different types by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18 languages, 7 (sub-)families. investigated effects two factors on question formation: (a) whether contains simple interrogative word like ‘who’ or complex one ‘which princess’, (b) was related to sentential...
This paper stems from the ongoing debate on changing role and status of English in different parts world, with a special interest socio-historical background post-Soviet country. The international has given rise to reactions among speakers, ranging attraction resentment (cf. Onysko, 2009: 34). These are expressed public online discourse, which provides rich resource empirical evidence study attitudes language ideologies. Digital media offers an especially important strategic site disseminate...
Abstract The paper investigates various definitions of the concept opinion as opposed to factual or evidence-based statements and proposes a taxonomy opinions expressed in English identified selected social media. A discussion situates realm pragmatics reaches philosophy language cognitive science. research methodology combines thorough linguistic analysis opinions, proposing their multifaceted with automatically generated lexical embeddings positive negative lexicon acquired from analysed...
The aim of the present paper is to examine routine apologizing in spoken business communication. Being face-threatening acts, apologies are special importance Since express sincerity and remedial helps enhance mutual respect keep relationship between colleagues stable, which especially important analysis focuses on four main expressions explicit apologies, i.e. with sorry, I apologise, pardon excuse me. data have been obtained from sub-corpus British National Corpus, includes transcripts...
Translations of restaurant menus are important for very practical reasons. A professionally translated menu can improve the service quality in restaurants and help to avoid intercultural miscommunication. serves as an informative text that provides details about food served a restaurant; more importantly, not only presents information, but also represents by shaping customers’ impressions place. In this sense, means advertising appellative their nature. addition, represent country its...
The main focus of the present paper is to show how vague language categories can function as a face-saving strategy.The observations made in this article are based on analysis one category language, that is, quantifiers British and American spoken academic discourse.The data used for investigation have been obtained from two corpora: sub-corpus educational events National Corpus Michigan Academic Spoken Discourse.The results suggest strategy when self-criticism or criticism towards others...
The paper reports on a pilot study devoted to the analysis of opinions expressed by Facebook discussants related immigration crisis in Europe. Opinions were conceptualised as subjective expression evaluation. data investigated line with an original, tripartite typology consisting 46 criteria evaluative language coming from distinct scholarly traditions: media studies, linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. Generally speaking, proposed templates proved effective when mapped onto social...
This paper examines the language of disinformation on topic COVID-19 pandemic in English and Lithuanian using methods contrastive corpus linguistics. The study not only reports research results but also addresses some methodological issues encountered analysis disinformation, a main one being absence or limited amount original content texts. Since most is translated adapted from other sources, an important question how likely it that distinct language-specific features will emerge published...
The present paper aims to show how a cross-linguistic analysis based on parallel corpus can be used for numerous practical applications in such areas as translation, lexicography and language teaching. examines non-numerical quantifiers (e.g. bit, few, etc.) English Lithuanian. is the Parallel Corpus of Lithuanian Language Spoken Where relevant, issue equivalence between discussed by comparing data results obtained from British National Corpus. study shows that especially useful when...
Šiame straipsnyje aptariami vaikų kalbos sutrikimų diagnostikos tyrimo rezultatai, gauti atlikus eksperimentus trijuose skirtinguose darželiuose, iš kurių vienas yra skirtas tipinės raidos vaikams, o kiti du – turintiems sutrikimų. Šis tyrimas Europos Komisijos remiamo projekto „Universali diagnostika“ (angl. Crosslinguistic Language Diagnosis, CLAD; LLP/ K 1) dalis; juo siekiama nustatyti pagrindinius specifinių Specific Impairment SLI) simptomus. Specifiniai sutrikimai (SLI) pirminiai...
The present research explores the productive vocabulary that beginner learners of Lithuanian as a foreign language use when speaking and writing. This study is based on newly developed Learner Corpus (LLC) uses its subcorpus texts (103,148 tokens). It measures lexical richness in learner (LLL) by examining variation, distribution word classes, errors, formulaic spoken written language. results show minimal resources, lexis used for pragmatic purposes scarcely employed either mode.
Šio tyrimo tikslas – ištirti, kaip švelninamosios anglų kalbos priesagos -ish vartosena su kiekiniais skaitvardžiais (pvz., fortyish, nineish) priklauso nuo kontekstinių faktorių, taip pat nustatyti, kokias pragmatines funkcijas vediniai šia morfologine forma atlieka sakytiniame ir rašytiniame diskurse. Tyrimui buvo pasirinkti du pagrindiniai faktoriai, galimai nulemiantys vartoseną: (1) atmaina (2) registras. Priesagos tirta dviejose atmainose: britų amerikiečių kalboje, todėl tyrime...