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The business of pragmatics. The case of discourse markers in the speech of students of Business English and English Linguistics KU Leuven
This paper investigates how foreign language learners use discourse markers (such as so, well, you know, I mean) in English speech. These small words that do not contribute much, if anything at all, to the propositional content of a message but modify it in subtle ways, are often considered among the last elements acquired in a foreign language. This contribution reports on close scrutiny of a corpus of English-spoken interviews with Belgian ...
English Corpus Linguistics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article reflects on the status of corpus-linguistic methodologies in English linguistics, and on the role of English linguistics in the development of corpus linguistics: what does English-language corpus linguistics look like from the outside? What is the extent to which English-language corpus linguistics is comparatively well-endowed with resources, in a way that other languages are not? And finally, what are key corpus-linguistic ...
Cognitive Contact Linguistics. The macro, meso and micro influence of English on Dutch. KU Leuven
This dissertation presents four multifactorial corpus-based studies describing the influence of English on the two main national varieties of Dutch. Overall, this study aims at three different goals. The first, and most modest goal, is to add to the description of the Dutch-English contact situation. Although the main focus of this work is put on lexical borrowing, a second and more ambitious goal is to illustrate how the study of language ...