Graffiti scrawls and hiphop calls: coming to grips with non-traditional sources for historical lexicography by Zimmer, B

“…This paper will consider two fertile yet problematic sources for the development of American English slang of the late 20th century. The first is a collection of graffiti-covered canvas bunk bottoms from a U.S. military transport ship that carried troops to Vietnam between 1965 and 1970. …”

Language proficiency and the speech act of complaint of Chinese EFL learners by Li, Rui, Raja Rozina Raja Suleiman

“…Thirty-two Chinese university students and five native speakers of American English completed a Free Discourse Completion Test (FDCT); English proficiency was measured by learners’ performance in TEM-4. …”
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A quantitative study of Chinese learners’ identities as reflected in their attitudes toward English accents by Yan, Huang, Azirah Hashim

“…Once an asset owned exclusively by native English speakers (NESs) in inner circle, the native English speaking norms, specifically the standard varieties of British and American English, have been taken for granted as models for non-native English speakers (NNESs) in outer and expanding circles to imitate and approximate to. …”
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Over again : a cognitive account of its meaning transference in the light of an image-schema based model by Do, Long Tuan

“…To be specific, this qualitative study aims to explain the processes of over’s meaning transference from spatial to non-spatial ones with 1350 instances in the 2017 Corpus of Contemporary American English, genre: Fiction. In the light of a combination of Multimodal Image Theory and Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the mappings from SPACE domain to non-spatial domains, image-schema transformations, and a range of conceptual metaphors associated with over were systematically analysed to first identify the word’s senses and then account for the mechanisms of its meaning transference. …”
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On communicative competence and intercultural understanding through the lens of the Japanese government-approved English language textbook by Gonja, Chika, Musaev, Talaibek

“…It is assumed that American English is considered an ideal model for English education in Japan. …”
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Novel approach to design matched digital filter with Abelian group and fuzzy particle swarm optimization vector quantization. by Sharma, Bharat Bhushan, Kumar Sharma, Naveen, Banshwar, Anuj, Malik, Hasmat, Garcia Marquez, Fausto Pedro

“…All of the phonemes in the American English language were included in the 30 sentences that were chosen from the IEEE database. …”

The evolution of creaky voice use in read speech by native-French and native-English speakers in tandem: a pilot study by Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer, Takeki Kamiyama

“…It has been reported as prevalent in (especially American) English but it is rarely described in French.During tandem exchanges between native-French speakers and native-English speakers, does voice quality found in each of the 2 languages spoken evolve in the course of the interactions? …”
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Identity, racial cognizance, and intercultural competence: Students’ collective identities in the virtual literary classroom by Sharmain van Blommestein, Andrea Roxana Bellot

“…Both courses were based in American English literature, so this VE course was conducted in English because the Spanish students were required to do their coursework in English. …”
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Linguistic features of American political correctness on the example of the implementation of the “People First” trend in modern English by Balashova, Elena Yurievna, Belyaev , Alexander S., Lazovskaya , Natalia V.

“…The ideas of political correctness are quite vividly represented in American English at the lexical, syntactic and communicative levels. …”
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Modelling of the Frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE: Corpus-Based Approach by I. V. Kononova, E. R. Kulchitskaya

“…The study is drawn on the collocations obtained from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).Results and discussions. A hierarchical model of the frame HEALTHY LIFESTYLE is presented, the following main slots (subframes) of the frame structure were identified: “healthy/unhealthy eating”, “physical activity”, “healthy/unhealthy habits”, “healthy lifestyle promotion”, “keeping healthy lifestyle”, “healthy/unhealthy relationships”. …”
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Evolving linguistic divergence on polarizing social media by Andres Karjus, Christine Cuskley

“…We find signs of linguistic divergence across all these aspects, especially in topics and themes of conversation, in line with previous research. While US American English remains largely intelligible within its large speech community, our findings point at areas where miscommunication may eventually arise given ongoing polarization and therefore potential linguistic divergence. …”
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Dialect adaptation and two dimensions of tune by German, James Sneed

“…This study explores the representation of two dimensions of tune through a series of experimental tasks in which speakers of American English attempt to directly imitate and then generalize the dialectal features of a native speaker of Glasgow English. …”
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Reassignment of consonant allophones in rapid dialect acquisition by German, James S., Carlson, Katy, Pierrehumbert, Janet B.

“…In an experiment spanning a week, American English speakers imitated a Glaswegian (Scottish) English speaker. …”
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APPRENDIMENTO DELLA L2 E PROCESSI DI RI-COSTRUZIONE DELL’IDENTITÀ: ANALISI DELL’AUTOBIOGRAFIA SOCIOLINGUISTICA DI EVA HOFFMAN by Paola Celentin

“…After exploring the poles of language and cultural identity, understood one as a tool and the other one as a relationship, the paper investigates the trajectory of second language learning (American English) by the author, examining the role of the language learning in the re-construction of her identity in migration. …”
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Throughout Seven Elements of Communication of Language on Martin Luther King’s Speech: A Discourse Analysis by Siti Maisyaroh Jumiati

“…The whole world then remembered the “I Have a Dream” speech as Martin Luther King's personal vision that had a huge impact on many people, the topic is I Have a Dream, the code is American English and the setting is on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC. …”
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Does children's dialect awareness support later reading and spelling in the standard language form? by Nunes, T, Pittas, E

“…Sentence comprehension is also affected by dialect use, presumably with consequences for reading comprehension: by the age of five users of Standard American English (SAE) can rely on the final "s" for third person present to determine whether an event is generic or past whereas African American Dialect (AAD) users cannot do so by the age of seven (De Villiers & Johnson, 2007).…”

CORSO DI ITALIANO PER STUDENTI ANGLOFONI NEGLI USA: L’IMPORTANZA DEL LIBRO DI TESTO by Ilaria Sacchini

“…</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Italian lessons for american english-speaking students: the importance of the textbook</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Teaching Italian abroad takes place in a specific context which needs to be considered in planning Italian as a Foreign Language courses.…”
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Auditory discrimination in aging bilinguals vs. monolinguals with and without hearing loss by Miwako Hisagi, Beatriz Barragan, Arlene Diaz, Kai White, Margaret Winter

“…The present study investigated the effects of aging on vowel sound discrimination in adult listeners (age 50+) with the following characteristics: American English (AE) monolinguals with normal hearing, simultaneous or early sequential Spanish-English (SE) bilinguals with normal hearing, and AE monolinguals with SNHL (AE-SNHL). …”
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Analysis of foreign schools of risk management by I.M. Posokhov

“…Thus, the author studied foreign schools of risk management, made the analysis of main representatives of these research schools, studied such schools of Risk Management as American, English, German, Australian, Japanese scientific schools (Mamdani, Sugeno, Tsukamoto).…”
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Common Usage vs Codified Standard: Problems with the Codification of Anglicisms in the Contemporary Russian Language by Anna Romanik

“… Common Usage vs Codified Standard: Problems with the Codification of Anglicisms in the Contemporary Russian Language This article focuses on the important problem of codification of the most recent borrowings of British and American English origins in the contemporary Russian language. …”
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