NJES : Nordic Journal of English Studies (2004-2008): Recent submissions
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Exploring Corporate Websites as a Setting for ELF Research: The Case of Ostrobothnian Export Companies
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)According to Jennifer Jenkins (2004: 63), the essential distinction between the use of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and that as a lingua franca (ELF) lies in their interlocutors' native language. Speakers (themselves ... -
VOICE Recording - Methodological Challenges in the Compilation of a Corpus of Spoken ELF
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)VOICE, the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English, aims to provide a general basis for analyses of English as a lingua franca (ELF) talk on all linguistic levels. This paper discusses criteria that have to be fulfilled ... -
A Rich Domain of ELF - the ELFA Corpus of Academic Discourse
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)The academic field has used English as a lingua franca widely for a long time, and is a good choice for an ELF corpus. It is useful to restrict the scope of exploratory research in one way or another, mode and domain ... -
“Words are more or less superfluous”: the Case of more or less in Academic Lingua Franca English
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)In the past fifty years, English has turned into the leading language of international communication. Despite its well-established status as a global lingua franca, there is a lack of descriptive research on how people ... -
The 'Attractive' Progressive - Why use the -ing Form in English as a Lingua Franca?
(2006-12)In SLA literature, the 'extended' use of the progressive in L2 English production has often been considered a 'problem'. The studies have been based on elicited data and explanations for such use have ranged from first ... -
English as a Lingua Franca: A New Variety in the New Expanding Circle?
(2006-12)The traditional tripartite model of English world-wide has so far ignored one of the most important functions of English today, namely that of a lingua franca between non-native speakers. In integrating ELF into models ... -
Efficiency in ELF Communication: From Pragmatic Motives to Lexico-grammatical Innovation
(2006-12)The considerable demographic shift in the use of English worldwide, with the effect that L2 speakers outnumber L1 speakers, particularly as typified in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication, is now widely acknowledged ... -
Making English Their Own: The use of ELF among Students of English at the FUB
(Gothenburg University, 2006-12)This paper analyses the attitudes and motives of students studying English at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and suggests that changing opinions on national (US and UK) standards and the emergence of the 'New Europe' ... -
REVIEW: Dypedah, Magne, Hilde Hasselgård and Berit Loken. 2006. Introducing English Grammar. Bergen: Fagbok forlaget.
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Justified pride? Metaphors of the word pride in English language corpora, 1418–1991
(Gothenburg University, 2006-09)This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ... -
Grammatical Metaphor/Metonymy in the Treaty Establishing A Constitution for Europe: A Comparison between the English and Swedish Versions
(2006-09-15)In order to investigate the use of grammatical metaphor in comparable English and Swedish texts, the English and Swedish versions of the proposed Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe were analysed. Results show ... -
Dwelling upon Metaphors: The Translation of William Gass’s Novellas
(2006-09-15)This paper presents a contextual analysis of metaphor translation in literary discourse, with reference to William Gass’s Cartesian Sonata & Other Novellas (New York: Knopf, 1998). Due to its deep formal investigation of ... -
The Creative Use of Idioms in Advertising
(2006-09-14)This paper is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms involved in the creative exploitation of idiomatic expressions in advertisements. In line with Grady et al. (1999), the analysis is based on the complementing theories ... -
Electrifying Performances and Brains that Fuse: Metaphor and the Cognitive Function of Electricity
(2006-09-14)In this paper, written within the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphorical expressions involving electricity as a source domain are discussed. The majority of the expressions are from The Oxford English Dictionary, ... -
Justified Pride? Metaphors of the Word Pride in English Language Corpora, 1418–1991
(2006-09-14)This article deals with the words pride, proud and proudly in a cognitive linguistic framework, addressing the questions: (1) What causes pride? (2) Which other concepts are associated with pride? (3) What are people’s ...