Linguistic Differences
The use of focus group data from countries with linguistic differences: A discussion of methodological and pragmatic issues
... This paper aims to add to the body of literature in which the challenges of undertaking focus groups in countries with linguistic differences. A series of recommendations for stages of focus group data ...
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Linguistic Differences Between Successful and Non‑Successful CEOs During the Financial Crisis
... Various researchers emphasise that effective leadership lays in the process of communication and that language use plays a key role in the process of leadership (Conger, 1991; Conger and Kanungo, 1998; Gardner and ...
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Cross linguistic differences and similarities in image descriptions
... Our analysis combines quantitative and qualitative studies of a trilingual corpus of described images. We use the Flickr30K (Young et al., 2014) for English, Multi30K for German (Elliott et al., 2016), and a new corpus ...
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Investigating cross-linguistic differences in refusal speech act among native Persian and English speakers
... The results of this study shed light on some interesting socio-cultural differences among NPS and NES. The reason for pragmatically different verbal behaviors can be traced back to culture, as the saying goes, ...
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Analyzing Linguistic Differences between Owner and Staff Attributed Tweets
... This study introduced a novel application of NLP: predicting if tweets from an account are attributed to their owner or to staffers. Past research on pre- dicting and studying Twitter account characteris- tics such as ...
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A Cognitive Analysis of Cross-linguistic Differences Between English and Persian Image Schemas
... Meaning is formed in our mind on the basis of our physical experience in the world. We perceive the environment when we move our body, exert and experience force. Regarding these experiences, some primary conceptual ...
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Linguistic differences of children from different socio economic backgrounds
... There were the same differences between classes when either verbal intelligence, non-verbal intelliqence, or both, were held constant, except in the case of the middleclass hiqh intelliq[r] ...
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Differences in reported linguistic thermal sensation between Bangla and Japanese speakers
... As linguistic differences between cultures may cause confusion when interpreting thermal perceptions measured by different languages [1], it is important to quantify the characteristics of individ- uals’ ...
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Understanding the Effect of Gender and Stance in Opinion Expression in Debates on “Abortion”
... the linguistic differences across these groups has not been very well ...the linguistic differences may also be correlated with the stance on a topic, to better understand the actual effect of ...
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The Role of Ethnicity in Integrative Tests Performances of Male/ Female Iranian English Learners of Different Language Proficiency Levels
... cross-cultural differences on the interpretation of each course final outcome, this study tends to investigate the impacts of ethnicity (cultural/linguistic differences) of English learners’ on ...
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The Language of Persuasion in Translation: The Cultural Filter in the English and Dutch IKEA Catalogue
... cross-cultural differences in my attempt to expose the linguistic differences between the Dutch and English versions of the IKEA ...cross-cultural differences. She found obvious ...
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FBK at WMT 2010: Word Lattices for Morphological Reduction and Chunk Based Reordering
... FBK participated in the WMT 2010 Machine Translation shared task with phrase-based Statistical Machine Transla- tion systems based on the Moses decoder for English-German and German-English translation. Our work ...
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The intelligibility of Malaysian English : a study of some features of spoken English produced by University students in Malaysia
... Whereas the linguistic differences between different groups of Bahasa Malaysia speakers do not normally hinder mutual intelligibility, the differences between the various Chinese dialect[r] ...
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Ethnic disparities in higher education
... and linguistic distance from the Dutch ...and linguistic differences between ethnic groups and Dutch society may play little role in the higher education system, compared to lower segments of the ...
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Dissecting genuine and deceptive kudos : The case of online hotel reviews
... which linguistic differences between genuine and deceptive reviews in terms of readability, genre, and writing style could predict review ...the differences were largely ...
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Sustained effects of socioeconomic status on proficiency and academic writing in English as a foreign language
... SES-related differences in learning English as a foreign language can control the tendency to ignore such differences and to try to see all people, at least on the surface, as ...
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Speech Act of Greeting for American Native Speakers of English and Saudi Native Speakers of Arabic: A Comparative Study
... The differences between the groups were evident in the placement of the options, terms of address, initiation words and interrogative sentences were ranked in the first three positions (Table ...the ...
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Looking Through the Lens of Individual Differences: Relationships Between Personality, Cognitive Control, Language Processing, and Genes
... The goal of Chapter 2 of this dissertation was to refine our understanding of the interaction between personality and cognitive control. By using the Stroop task, which isolates a single cognitive control factor ...
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CoventryCares of Kentucky. Provider Orientation Fall 2011
... beliefs and behaviors based on cultural, social, racial, linguistic, etc., differences and eliminating barriers to care and services. • Included, but not limited to, are members who are[r] ...
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The linguistic transparency of first language calendar terms affects calendar calculations in a second language
... a linguistic label for ÔorangeÕ corresponding to colours that the native language categorises as shades of yellow or red, second language speakers may establish a new concept of ÔorangeÕ (Jameson & Alvarado, ...
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