Beschreibung
This volume has its origin in a selection of the papers presented at the
(ELC2), held at the University of Vigo in October 2009 and designed and organised by postgraduate students belonging to the English Departments of the Universities of Vigo and Santiago de Compostela. The purpose of the conference was to allow young professional researchers to share and survey their current views on linguistic research. Four of the ten chapters included address the diachronic change undergone by particular lexical items, namely the morphosemantic change illustrated by the development of the morpheme
, the historical evolution of
and
, the origin and semantics of the expletive form
, and the structure and distribution of nominalisations referring to actions or processes. Variation is also approached from a diatopic perspective in the study of expressions of obligation and necessity (
and
) in New Englishes, the distribution and functions of the discourse marker
in Channel Island English, and regional variability of vowel phonology in Scottish Standard English. Lastly, three studies address semantics and culture in the field of L2 learning. These contributions focus on the assessment of Lexical Frequency Profile applications in the analysis of Romanian learner English, the role of cultural knowledge in the learning process of English as an International Language, and L1 typicality effects in L2 vocabulary learning.
Autorenportrait
David Tizón-Couto and Beatriz Tizón-Couto are both postgraduate researchers for the
at the University of Vigo.
Iria Pastor-Gómez works as a Lecturer in English at the Galician School of Higher Studies in Hotel Management (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Paula Rodríguez-Puente works as an FPI researcher (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education) at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Inhalt
Contents: David Tizón-Couto/Beatriz Tizón-Couto: Variation, Meaning and Learning: New Studies in English Linguistics within ‘The Circle’ – Madalina Chitez: Lexical Frequency Profile Applications on Learner Corpora: A Romanian Learner English Explorative Analysis – Gabriela Diaconu: Assessing Subjectivity and Objectivity in Modal Expressions from New Englishes: A Multivariate Analysis – Karen Jacob: EIL as a Global Cultural Phenomenon – Hubert Kowalewski/Anna Weremczuk: From Underground Sexuality to Speculative Fiction. Morphological and Semantic Changes of the Morpheme
– Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras: From Full Verbal Forms to Markers of Exemplification:
and
as a Case of Grammaticalisation? – Anna Rosen: ‘That’s a real Jersey one, eh?’: Discourse Marker
in Channel Island English – Ole Schützler: Regional (In-)Variability of Vowel Space Organisation in Scottish Standard English – Ángeles Tomé-Rosales: ‘[A]dsheartlikins, there’s more persuasive rhetoric in ‘t’: A Corpus-based Approach to the Expletive Form
– Vera Vázquez-López: Nominalisations in Early Modern English: Internal Structure, Development and Suffixal Productivity – Xiaoyan Xia/Janny Leung: Category Typicality Effects in Foreign Language Acquisition: The Role of L1-based Typicality in L2 Semantic Organisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis
