Search Results - "British English"
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SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English
Published 2014“…In addition to the word form frequencies, we also present measures of contextual diversity part-of-speech specific word frequencies, word frequencies in children programmes, and word bigram frequencies, giving researchers of British English access to the full range of norms recently made available for other languages. …”
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A corpus-based study on snake metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English
Published 2012“…Second, in terms of the conceptual metaphor of HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS, Mandarin Chinese and British English share the same metaphor of HUMAN BEINGS ARE SNAKES. …”
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A corpus-based study on snake metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English
Published 2012“…Second, in terms of the conceptual metaphor of HUMAN BEINGS ARE ANIMALS, Mandarin Chinese and British English share the same metaphor of HUMAN BEINGS ARE SNAKES. …”
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A cognitive analysis of snake and lion metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English
Published 2012“…Keywords: metaphor, snake metaphors, lion metaphors, Mandarin Chinese, British English, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory.…”
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Attitudes and preferences of Malaysian university students towards British English and American English
Published 2018“…Standard British English has often been used as the model to teach and learn English in Malaysia. …”
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A corpus-based study on a man is a lion in Mandarin Chinese and British English
Published 2011“…were collected from the Modern Chinese Corpus comp iled by the Centre for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University (CCL Corpus)The data for British English were collected from the British National Corpus (BNC ). …”
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Attitudes and driving factors behind the attitudes of Malaysian university students towards English and American English
Published 2019“…This article explores the attitudes of 340 Malaysian students in a public university in Klang Valley towards two main English varieties in Malaysia: i) British English and ii) American English. Data were acquired by employing the Verbal Guise Technique (VGT) to determine the participants’ covert attitudes towards the two varieties. …”
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Lion metaphors in Chinese and English
Published 2013“…This study intends to explore the cultural similarities and differences between the lion metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English. Most previous studies on animal metaphors focussed on the expressions with human beings as the target domain by collecting data either from questionnaires or dictionaries based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. …”
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Idiomaticity in ESL contexts: appropriacy versus conformity
Published 2024“…The translated indigenous idioms function especially as palliation, omen, and emphasis pragmatic markers, and the domesticated Standard British English idioms especially as emphasis pragmatic markers. …”
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Spoken English discrimination (SED) training with multilingual Malaysians: effect of adaptive staircase procedure and background babble in high variability phonetic training.
Published 2017“…Before examining whether SED training leads to improvements in speech production, Chapter 4 investigated the phonetics perception pattern of L1 Mandarin Malaysian speakers, L1 Malaysian English speakers and native British English speakers. The production intelligibility of the L1 Mandarin speakers was also evaluated by the L1 Malaysian English speakers and native British English speakers. …”
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Stress and rhythm in the Nigerian accent of English
Published 2003“…The study identifies three varieties of Spoken Nigerian English characterized by their disposition to stress and speech rhythm: the Nonstandard, the Standard and the Sophisticated Varieties which are individually different but collectively similar yet different from Standard British English represented by the control's performance. …”
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Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse
Published 2024“…Acoustic evidence for both taps and flaps in British English was found. Both of them have continuous voicing, with the first being acoustically closer to stops having a variable duration gap and impulse phase, and the second – closer to approximants demonstrating F-structure, no evidence of occlusion or burst. …”
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Modality in spoken Malaysian English : a comparison with the supervarieties
Published 2022“…As a new variety of English, it raises questions on how Malaysian English has developed from the historical input variety, i.e., British English and how resistant or accepting Malaysian English is to American English which is highly influential globally. …”
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Rhoticity in Malaysian English / Kamalashne Jayapalan
Published 2016“…However, in Standard Spoken British English this phenomenon does not occur. Malaysian English pronunciation is modelled after British English which is non-rhotic. …”
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The use of Malaysian English lexical terms in the work of Preeta Samarasan / Prema Jaya Balan
Published 2012“…The deviations in these varieties are seen in a negative light and therefore the non-native varieties are considered inferior to Standard British English. If that is the case, the question arises as to why writers who are educated speakers of the language choose to use the local variety in their works. …”
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Customize sneaker for promoting brand (principle footwear) / Ahmad Harith Ibrahim
Published 2015“…Athletic shoes are also known as training shoes or trainers (British English), sandshoes, gym boots or joggers (Australian English and Geordie English in the UK), running shoes, runners or gutties (Canadian English, Australian English, and Hiberno-English), sneakers (North American English and New Zealand English), tennis shoes (North American English and Australian English), gym shoes, tennies, sports shoes, sneaks, tackies (South African English and Hiberno-English), rubber shoes (Philippine English) or canvers (Nigerian English).…”
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Tolerance Towards Malaysian English As a New Variety of English
Published 1998“…Malaysian English is a non-native variety distinct from the Standard British English. The consolidation of this variety in its present form or its continuity evolving into a form even further from its roots, depends on the attitudes of its speech community. …”
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Acquisition of Australian English vocabulary via newspapers
Published 2013“…Australian English may not have received much research interest or attention compared to standard British English or standard American English which are considered reference varieties. …”
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Phonological assimilation in the English of native and non-native speakers’ reading and spontaneous speech
Published 2013“…This study examines the frequency of phonological assimilation in the speech of experienced non-native speakers (L2) of English and native speakers (L1) of British English. The study compares reading and spontaneous speech performance by both groups. …”
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Aspects of the verbal system of Malaysian english and other englishes
Published 2013“…For the verbal categories selected there is independent evidence of recent diachronic variation in British English (‘BrE’) and American English (‘AmE’). …”
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