This study focused on the usage of pronoun "they" in third-person singular context. The aim was to answer the question of how singular "they" is used by native speakers of English in different contexts, and what the reasoning ...

This study investigates identity construction through language use of Chairul Tanjung (CT), a leading Indonesian businessman who is also the chairman of Indonesian Economic Committee (Komite Ekonomi Nasional, KEN). The ...

Gestures are bodily communicative actions, typically involving movements of the hands and arms, which are synchronous with speech and co-expressive but not redundant (McNeill, 2007: 23). Traditionally, gestures have been ...

This thesis investigates the intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of children aged 4-6 attending a primary school that offers bilingual education. The data on the children’s ICC were collected using an observation ...

This thesis examines the phenomenon of ironic memes. Drawing on theoretical developments in sociolinguistics, multimodal research, and New Literacy Studies, it explores (a) how ironic memes are designed as multimodal texts ...

The research conducted is to establish the efficacy of the language planning on the Caribbean island of Aruba, where the spoken vernacular is Papiamento and the language of education is Dutch. The study looked at the ways ...

Previous research on fluency has found that language disfluency manifests itself through non-juncture pauses and the use of non-lexical fillers. Taking into account that lexical retrieval struggle is one of the main ...

As soon as March 2020 hit, the vast majority of social world went online which convinced individuals to shift to videoconferencing tools. Yet, in comparison to face-to-face interaction, video-mediated communication differs ...

This pilot study investigates the effect of exposure on native-like status evaluation of regional British accents by Dutch L2 speakers of English. Previous research has shown that both native and non-native listeners ...

The American Southwest has experienced a drastic increase in its Hispanic population in roughly the past thirty years. This has accounted for a unique language contact situation between English on the one hand and Spanish ...