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Bondar, Vladimir – International Journal of English Studies, 2021
In the current study, data from A Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760) are used to consider contexts with the have-perfect and temporal adverbs of the definite past time such as yesterday, last night, ago. Data analysis is conducted within the framework of a usage-based approach, which gives evidence to the hypothesis that in Early Modern…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Pragmatics
Cahnmann, Melisa – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
This paper seeks to understand the role of culturally-specific styles of discourse in the classroom. The paper uses and expands upon three categories of classroom language use (control, curriculum, and critique) to present data on how a Puerto Rican American teacher uses repetition and discourse styles that have African and African American…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques