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Opie Zone: Opie Special Assistant Samba Bah Appreciates Athens Community, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Perception & Perspective: An Analysis Of Discourse And Situational Factors In Reference Frame Selection, Robert J. Ross, Kavita E. Thomas

Conference papers

To integrate perception into dialogue, it is necessary to bind spatial language descriptions to reference frame use. To this end, we present an analysis of discourse and situational factors that may influence reference frame choice in dialogues. We show that factors including spatial orientation, task, self and other alignment, and dyad have an influence on reference frame use. We further show that a computational model to estimate reference frame based on these features provides results greater than both random and greedy reference frame selection strategies.

Synonymy Of Terms And The Problem Of Lexical Norm, G.M Raimjonova, H.E Yodgorov

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article is devoted to the discussion of the problem of terms which have several meanings in denoting the same linguistic phenomenon. The author of the article attempts to allot each specific linguistic terms existent in the Uzbek language into a definite category. The author of the article also brings some synonyms of the Uzbek language to demonstrate how synonyms are defined in the science of Uzbek terminology.

Language & Literacy: The Politics Of Language, Brittany A. Zayas, Melissa Watson

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus is for a Freshmen Inquiry Writing Seminar, which is a two-section, collaboratively taught course wherein one of the two courses engages students in critical thinking, reading, and writing about the issue of language and literacy, while the other introduces students to conventions of academic writing and mentors them in social and rhetorical writing processes. Thus, this course draws on the topic of language and literacy as a vehicle for critically analyzing students' own languages and literacies and developing especially their academic and information literacies.

Opie Zone: Meet Kyle Butler, Pathway Program Coordinator, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Categories Of The Concept, A. Mamatov,, R. Akhrorova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The conception and it’s types are mentioned in this article.

Categories Of The Concept, A. Mamatov,, R. Akhrorova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The conception and it’s types are mentioned in this article.

Categories Of The Concept, A. Mamatov,, R. Akhrorova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The conception and it’s types are mentioned in this article.

Opie Zone: Meet Becky Challenger, Opie Curriculum, Academic Coordinator, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Rudolf Laban's Dream: Re-Envisioning And Re-Scoring Ballet, Choreutics, And Simple Functional Movements With Vector Signs For Deflecting Diagonal Inclinations, Jeffrey Scott Longstaff

Journal of Movement Arts Literacy Archive (2013-2019)

Several methods of movement notation, forerunners of modern-day Labanotation/Kinetography were published by Rudolf Laban in his 1926 book Choreographie. One of these has been referred to as vector signs because they represent movement as orientations (slopes) of lines through space. This article begins by comparing Labanotation direction symbols with Laban's earlier vector signs by looking at differences when simple sequences are scored in both formats. Concepts of space within the vector signs are examined, particularly Laban's idea of deflecting inclinations where movements are categorized as mixtures of two fundamental contrasting spatial and dynamic tendencies: dimensional stability and diagonal mobility. This …

Lingua Franca, Tatiana Gomez Gaggero

Masters Theses

Lingua Franca examines how graphic design and art are used as a common language between people who speak the same language, speak different languages or have distinct cultural backgrounds.1 Understanding languages as living systems that are in constant movement and in direct relation with cultures, this thesis looks at graphic design as a platform for coding and decoding language, shaping and reshaping it.

My fascination with the relationship between culture, language and linguistics led me to investigate topics such as context collapse, the evolution of Spanish in Latin America, and notions of identity, gender and translation. In a moment of …

(Un)Welcome To America: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric In Trump’S Speeches And Conservative Mainstream Media, Erika Sabrina Quinonez

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

This project makes the empirical assertion that U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative news media outlets contribute to a national narrative of xenophobia that frames immigrants, particularly those of color, as parasitic and dangerous to the American way of life. Through this study, I assert that the use of demagogic and dehumanizing language along with more subtle discursive strategies, such as positive representation of ‘us’, negative representation of ‘them,’ and metaphorical constructions are being used to stoke fear and anti-immigrant sentiment and to strip individuals of their humanity for the purpose of rendering them unworthy of dignity and of the …

A Comparison Of The Effects Of Concept-Based And Grammar-Based Methods Of Instruction On The Acquisition Of The Subjunctive Among Heritage And Second Language Learners Of Spanish, Antoni Fernandez Parera

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the outcomes of two different types of instructional approaches on advanced second language (L2) learners and intermediate heritage language (HL) learners of Spanish. Two methodologically distinct pedagogical interventions were conducted: 1) MCE (Mindful Conceptual Engagement), derived from the principles set in Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of mind (SCT); and 2) Grammar-Based Instruction, which is based upon more traditional methods of instruction involving the description and practice of grammatical content (e.g., fill-in-the blank exercises). Both interventions focused on usage of the subjunctive in variable contexts where the indicative was possible, but with a subsequent change in meaning (e.g., Busco …

Features Of Self-Study Learning In The Development Of The Competence Of Military Teachers In English Language, X.A Mamatqulov

Central Asian Journal of Education

The article discusses the content of normative model of military teacher’s competency, displaying scientifically based composition of professional knowledge and skills and here we can see pedogogical condition and developing level of professional competence of foreign languages teachers.

Coarticulation In Two Fricative-Vowel Sequences Of Latin American Spanish, Jeff Renaud

Celebration of Learning

Dialectal surveys of Latin American Spanish (Perissinotto 1975, Resnick 1975) describe three main possible pronunciations for fu (fuego 'fire') and fo (foco 'focus') sequences: faithful [f], velarized [x], and bilabialized [ɸ], in order of frequency. While the velar realization has received phonetic and theoretical consideration (Lipski 1995, Mazzaro 2011), little is understood about the voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] in Spanish. This paper describes a three-part production study to uniformly account for the unfaithful velar and bilabial realizations.

Mazzaro (2011) explains the velar [x] variant by arguing that, given the acoustic similarity of, e.g., [fu]/[xu], listeners misperceive a speaker's …

Linguistics A Recap Of This Years Colloquia Series, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Opie Zone: International Conversation Hour June 5, 12 And 19, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Opie Zone: A Letter From The Director, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Students Study Uk Sport And Culture At Manchester England Over Spring Break, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Spanish And Linguistics Major Gets Fulbright, Heading To Brazil, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Happy Beginnings: Linguistics Research Changed My Entire Career Path, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Haiku Palindromes, Tim Heath

Word Ways

A collection of palindromes in Haiku form.

Word Ladders, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A word ladder is a link between two given words in which each rung is obtained from its predecessor by altering exactly one letter in it.

Second Language Acquisition Of Voicing Patterns In Spanish Sibilants, William Hagerman

Honors College Research

In the current study, English-speaking students enrolled in an upper-level university Spanish class read a series of sentences that are designed to elicit alveolar sibilants [s, z] in coda position, both word-internal and word-final. Samples are analyzed using Praat (Boersma & Weenink 2005), and data analysis compares the duration of voicing of each sibilant to the total sibilant duration to determine the percentage of voicing assimilation. Given that voicing assimilation in native Spanish is variable rather than categorical (Romero 1999; Schmidt & Willis 2011; Garcia 2013), a control group of native speakers provides a comparison sample. Given the differences of …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 51, Issue 2

Word Ways

The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

Bigram Sentences, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The words of a particular sentence all contain the same bigram.

Consecutive Double Letters, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A list of words that contain three or more sets of double letters in consecutive order.

Constrained Stinky Pinkies, . Anil, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A stinky pinky is defined in Dave Morice's Dictionary of Wordplay (2001) as a two-word rhyming phrase such as flower power.

Deflationary Language, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

In the following recessionary story, numbers and letters deflate instead of inflate, and any word that has a comparative element is changed to its lower or lesser counterpart.

What's So Key About These 8-Letter Words?, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Can you come up with the particular property that this list of 8-letter words share?