Gabriela Cusen

Universitatea Transilvania Brasov | unitbv · Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

This paper focuses on how attitudinal markers of identity are rendered in two diachronic translations of a work of literature. It offers a comparative view of the translations in terms of their preservation or adaptation of attitudinal discourse markers and the extent to which they render the literary hero's identity in the target language. Relevan...

Narrative has been one of the major concerns in social science research ever since the mid-twentieth century, and the area of second language acquisition (SLA) is no exception. Researchers have turned to the investigation of learner-produced narratives to extend the understanding of many key concepts in SLA theory. This type of research approach ta...

Această lucrare raportează o investigație exploratorie a componentelor (engl. moves) IMRaD ale rezumatelor (Introducere, Metodă, Rezultate și Discuții) care demonstrează gradul de informare în termeni de explicabilitate referențială a textelor academice și utilizarea limbajului vag în rezumate ale articolelor publicate în reviste academice în 2010...

This paper reports on an exploratory investigation of the IMRaD moves (Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion) which show the degree of informativeness in terms of referential explicitness of academic texts and of use of vague language in academic journal abstracts published in 2010 and 2011. The areas of research these articles focus on are:...

This research attempts to understand aspects of one area of language learning, learning strategies, in order to possibly identify teaching implications. To that end, the paper outlines an exploratory study examining the language learning strategies of university teaching staff. It was designed to a) identify and classify the language learning strat...

When researchers write academic journal abstracts, they need to meet the requirements of the publisher, which may very well mean that they need to be aware of “the meaning and functions of borders” within which their work is presented in this type of academic text. This paper reports on an investigation of the use of vague language (VL) and IMRaD m...

In today’s modern world, technology has taken over all major parts of our lives. From a very young age, children are exposed to devices such as tablets, cell phones, game pads, game consoles, calculators, computers and so on which enables them to develop certain types of skills which haven’t quite been accounted for in traditional schooling. That i...

Even though interruptions in various areas of spoken interaction have been the focus of research which deals with such issues as power and dominance, more recently, this focus seems to have been on the many functions they can hold. One research area in which interruptions may be given less attention is that of doctor-patient interactions (see, for...

The role of theory in research in general, and in applied linguistics in particular, appears to be a matter of making decisions as to 'what data would be relevant [to the investigation of a research issue] and how such data will be best obtained' (Johnson and Johnson, 274). Such decisions involve the researcher's position with respect to a choice b...