Category: Language and Communication
Dementia Care Users’ Resistance to Long-Term Home Care Service: Taiwanese Care Workers Advised Communication Strategies
Population of older people living with dementia is expected to rise in Taiwan due to the dramatically ageing trend. Long-term …
The Influence of Comma- and Period-pause Duration on the Listener’s Impression of Speeches Made in Mandarin Chinese
The influence of pause duration at commas and periods on listeners’ impressions of speeches made in Mandarin Chinese was investigated. …
Business English as a ‘Lingua Franca’ (BELF): Focusing on Cross-Cultural E-mail Communication
Business English as a ‘Lingua Franca’ – BELF – has been getting more and more international attention recently in the …
The Rhetoric of the Freedom Party of Austria in the 2019 National Council Elections – Lexicon, Pragmatics, Discourse
Our study deals with the language of the Freedom Party of Austria in the early elections to the National Council …
Teacher-Student Communication in Taiwan Senior Education Contexts: A Focus on Older Learners’ Views
Senior education has received increasing attention in Taiwan as an active response to the dramatically ageing population but existing literature …
Increasing Tutor EI Skills to Improve Tutee L2 Writing
Russian academic writing centers challenge to instill the educational nature of individual consultations (IC) adapting them to the Russian mindset. …
Representation of Chinese-Sundanese Ethnic Identity in Suryakencana Bogor through Code Switching and Code Mixing
Indonesia has 1340 ethnic groups with 300 different ethnic groups recorded (www.netralnews.com). According to Hasbullah (www.academia.edu), there are around 726 …
Politeness and Impoliteness Strategies in the Courtroom: An Analysis of a Trail Script
This research presents a conversation analysis (CA) study based on the data from an American reality TV show which aims …
Local Tourism Destination Content in Online Travel Agency Promotion
Online Travel Agency (OTA) had an impact on making people ease to travel, through their mobile devices without any extra …