@incollection{Ali2022, author = {Ali, Zuraina}, title = {A Case Study of the Basic Learners' Struggles in Guessing from Context to Retain Words Learned}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-117}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296529}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {117-124}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Guessing meaning from context is a challenging strategy for Second Language Learners (SLLs). In using the strategy, research found that poor students or low proficiency learners struggled in their attempts to use it. Mainly, it was reported that it was due to their vocabulary knowledge was limited. In another aspect, retaining vocabulary learnt is also important. Such is essential since learning vocabulary does not mean knowing the definition only. Yet, learners must also be able to use the vocabulary as they engage in language skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening. The study aims at finding the hindrances faced among poor students' using contextual clues in retaining vocabulary. The study employed a case study to collect data from two basic students studying at a tertiary level. The study found that their hindrances in guessing meaning contexts were due to their being confused in guessing meaning when reading a sentence. Also, it was found that they were not able to find clues since they lacked vocabulary to guess correctly. The study implied that guessing meaning from context required sizeable vocabulary knowledge. Therefore, more training is necessary to assist basic learners in being successful in guessing from contexts.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Bach1992, author = {Bach, Ulrich}, title = {From private writing to public oration: The case of Puritan wills. Cognitive discourse analysis applied to the study of genre change}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-47211}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {1992}, abstract = {No abstract available}, language = {en} } @incollection{Chetvertak2022, author = {Chetvertak, Іevgeniia}, title = {Cyber aggression in the stance of communicative approach}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296152}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {1-9}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The article deals with the notion of internet aggression (cyber aggression). It considers the mentioned term from both psychological and communicative approaches. The paper also provides detailed analyses of the cyber aggression in political discourse. The provided ex-amples are taken from the speeches of politicians during the time of Covid pandemic. The author also identifies several types of cyber aggression.}, language = {en} } @misc{Ferschke2009, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Ferschke, Oliver}, title = {Semantic Relations in WordNet and the BNC}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-46188}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2009}, abstract = {From the introduction: It is not always easy to define what a word means. We can choose between a variety of possibilities, from simply pointing at the correct object as we say its name to lengthy definitions in encyclopaedias, which can sometimes fill multiple pages. Although the former approach is pretty straightforward and is also very important for first language acquisition, it is obviously not a practical solution for defining the semantics of the whole lexicon. The latter approach is more widely accepted in this context, but it turns out that defining dictionary and encyclopaedia entries is not an easy task. In order to simplify the challenge of defining the meaning of words, it is of great advantage to organize the lexicon in a way that the structure in which the words are integrated gives us information about the meaning of the words by showing their relation to other words. These semantic relations are the focal point of this paper. In the first chapter, different ways to describe meaning will be discussed. It will become obvious why semantic relations are a very good instrument to organizing the lexicon. The second chapter deals with WordNet, an electronic lexical database which follows precisely this approach. We will examine the semantic relations which are used in WordNet and we will study the distinct characteristics of each of them. Furthermore, we will see which contribution is made by which relation to the organization of the lexicon. Finally, we will look at the downside of the fact that WordNet is a manually engineered network by examining the shortcomings of WordNet. In the third chapter, an alternative approach to linguistics is introduced. We will discuss the principles of corpus linguistics and, using the example of the British National Corpus, we will consider possibilities to extract semantic relations from language corpora which could help to overcome the deficiencies of the knowledge based approach. In the fourth chapter, I will describe a project the goal of which is to extend WordNet by findings from cognitive linguistics. Therefore, I will discuss the development process of a piece of software that has been programmed in the course of this thesis. Furthermore, the results from a small\&\#8208;scale study using this software will be analysed and evaluated in order to check for the success of the project.}, subject = {WordNet}, language = {en} } @article{Fick2013, author = {Fick, Annabella}, title = {Conrad Hilton, Be My Guest and American Popular Culture}, series = {European Journal of Life Writing}, volume = {2}, journal = {European Journal of Life Writing}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-129221}, pages = {18-34}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Hotels are popular settings in European and American literature. They fire readers' imagination and many of them have a personal relationship to hotels. These institutions are not only alive in the realm of literature but are real existing buildings which have become fixed parts of modern society. Conrad Hilton (1887-1979), founder of the international hotel chain of the same name, was very aware of the glamorous aspects of his field of profession and published his experiences in the autobiography Be My Guest (1957). One copy of the book was placed in each room of the Hilton chain. Due to this Hilton was reaching an enormous audience which inspired other writers to fictionalize Hilton and turn him into a character in their own books. In this paper I will show how Conrad Hilton achieved world-wide fame, partly with the help of his life account. Furthermore, the methods will be explained that he used to present himself as a prototypical American of the Cold War era. I will then focus on two fictional texts, Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel (1965) and the TV-show Mad Men (2007) by Matthew Weiner, which both incorporated Hilton as a character, yet in very different ways. The aim of this article is to show the potential of celebrity autobiographies to inspire other cultural creations and how authors react very differently to these texts according to their own socio-historical background.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Fischer2004, author = {Fischer, Anne-Rose}, title = {Erlesene Stimmen : semantische und funktionale Analyse von Stimmdarstellungen in englischen fiktionalen Texten}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-11520}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Die Arbeit ist eine korpusbasierende Analyse von Stimmbeschreibungen in englischsprachigen fiktionalen Texten, die sowohl einen sprachwissenschaftlich-semantischen als auch einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Ansatzpunkt w{\"a}hlt. Ersterer geht dabei auf den "Pool" des Stimmbeschreibungsmaterials ein, letzterer untersucht die Funktion von Stimmdarstellungen in der Gesamtkonzeption von Figuren und Texten und betrachtet dabei auch Aspekte wie das Verh{\"a}ltnis von Autor-Figur-Leser und die Informationsvergabe in fiktionalen Texten. F{\"u}r die Analyse wurde ein Korpus aus Romanen, Kurzgeschichten und Dramen des 20. Jahrhunderts erstellt. Um ein m{\"o}glichst breites Spektrum zu erlangen, wurden Texte von britischen, amerikanischen und Commonwealth-Autoren gew{\"a}hlt. Zudem wurden Trivialromane genauso ber{\"u}cksichtigt wie Werke der "h{\"o}herstehenden" Literatur. Im Zentrum von Teil I der Analyse steht die semantische Klassifizierung von Stimmbeschreibungen nach klangbeschreibenden (z.B. shrill, rumbling, husky)und sprecherbezogenen Angaben, bei denen auch emotionale, pragmatische und machtstrukturierende Stimmangaben (z.B. happy, apologizing, condescending) eingeschlossen sind, die dem Leser Aufschluß {\"u}ber das Innenleben und die Beziehungsstrukturen von fiktionalen Charakteren geben. Da die Schwierigkeit der Stimmklangwiedergabe f{\"u}r Autoren geradezu eine willkommene Einladung f{\"u}r das Spiel mit Metaphern und ungew{\"o}hnlichen Vergleichen ist, wird den metaphorisch-bildhaften Stimmdarstellungen in Teil II ein Sonderkapitel gewidmet. Teil III geht schließlich auf die funktionalen Aspekte der Stimmdarstellungen ein. So dient das Zusammenspiel von Meta- und Objektsprache als Verst{\"a}ndnissicherung f{\"u}r den Leser, kann aber auch Einblick in den Figurencharakter geben. Entscheidend ist jedoch die Wirkung der Stimme in der Gesamtkonzeption von Figuren, denn h{\"a}ufig gehen optische und akustische Figurenbeschreibungen Hand in Hand, so daß {\"u}ber die beiden Wahrnehmungskan{\"a}le ein komplexes Charakterbild entsteht, {\"u}ber das Sympathie und Antipathie des Lesers gesteuert werden k{\"o}nnen. Autoren arbeiten dabei h{\"a}ufig mit Stereotypen und Klischeebr{\"u}chen. Letzlich dienen die Stimmdarstellungen der Verlebendigung von Figuren und unterst{\"u}tzen somit die Pseudo-Realit{\"a}t von fiktionalen Texten. Die scheinbar unendliche F{\"u}lle von Stimmbeschreibungen zeigt, daß Figuren f{\"u}r den Leser nicht nur durch ihr Aussehen, sondern auch durch ihre habituelle und situationelle Stimme "lebendig" werden.}, subject = {Englisch}, language = {de} } @misc{Gwosdek2014, author = {Gwosdek, Hedwig}, title = {Nicholas Orme. English School Exercises, 1420-1530. Studies and Texts 181. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2013, xi + 441 pp., \$ 95.00.}, series = {Anglia}, volume = {132}, journal = {Anglia}, number = {3}, issn = {1865-8938}, doi = {10.1515/ang-2014-0063}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195318}, pages = {607-610}, year = {2014}, abstract = {No abstract available.}, language = {en} } @incollection{KellenRibeiroWengDeToni2022, author = {Kellen Ribeiro Weng, Ana and De Toni, Plinio Marco}, title = {Differences and Similarities between the Fields of Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-19}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296447}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {19-24}, year = {2022}, abstract = {No abstract available.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Kumar2022, author = {Kumar, Dinesh}, title = {A Brief Historical and Present Perspective of ELT in India}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-11}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296434}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {11-17}, year = {2022}, abstract = {English language is being taught as a second foreign language in India. For most of the learners in India, English still a foreign language or target language. The study of this language is important to fulfill different kinds of academic and professional requirements. Still, there is a big gulf between demand and supply for which the failure of the system is largely responsible as its main emphasis on to adherence to the foreign curriculum. The government tries to impose this curriculum on English teachers, but, in fact, the curriculum is outdated.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Kushch2022, author = {Kushch, Elina}, title = {The aphoristic potential of presidential rhetoric of G. Bush Jr.}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-25}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296456}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {25-39}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This research paper concentrates on the analysis of the aphoristic potential of G. W. Bush's presidential rhetoric. Aphorisms are the most ancient laconic forms of expressing original and completed thoughts which reveal the peculiarity of their authors' world perception and worldview. From this perspective, these units can serve as the means of values codification. Repeatability and widespread use of aphorisms in various communications contribute to transmitting the values and ideas between the generations. Political aphorisms, which are a combination of aphoristic expressions from political communication and discourse, play an important role in this process. The authors of these expressions are not only politicians, but also philosophers, historians, writers, celebrities of different nationalities and generations. Presidential rhetoric is an integral and significant part of political discourse. The use of aphorisms as the means of codification of national and common human values in President G. W. Bush's formal addresses and speeches is intentional. It makes them concise and original, influential and convincing. Aphoristic expressions denoting common human values show the ideas and beliefs of their authors, as well as the politician, about life, justice, equality, freedom, faith, family. Aphorisms defining national values become the means of updating concepts of democracy, unity and diversity, freedom and security, success, and opportunity to fulfill one's potential in American society. The distinctive feature of G.W. Bush's rhetoric is the frequent use of aphorisms whose authors are the Founding Fathers.}, language = {en} }