English Dialogues Research Articles

Our Town, by David Hyatt Crowe

Our Town, by David Hyatt Crowe

INTERPERSONAL DIALOGUE TO BUILD STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING ENGLISH

This study aims to see the implementation of interpersonal dialogue in learning English to enhance students' ability in using the English language. This study used a qualitative method. The data collection technique uses observation techniques to see the process of the implementation of learning to use interpersonal dialogue, and interview techniques to determine the impact of implementing interpersonal dialogue. Respondents in this study were lecturer and students. The results showed that during the learning process, the interpersonal dialogue was created between students and students and lecturer. Then, there is an increase in learning activities, student participation, students get additional knowledge in the form of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and self-confidence. In conclusion, the implementation of interpersonal dialogue can build communicative learning, because of the interactive communication between students and lecturers, as well as students and students during the learning process. As well as increasing student ability and student confidence in using English.

Borges, Solomon and Saturn: “Un diálogo anglosajón del siglo XI” (1961)

J. L. Borges’s interest in and understanding of the Old English dialogues featuring King Solomon and the pagan Saturn have hitherto received little academic attention. This article will explore Borges’s engagement with these texts and in doing so aims at contributing to recent scholarship concerning the author’s lifetime fascination with the medieval literatures of northern Europe. Particular attention will be given to Borges’s annotated translation of one of the Solomonic dialogues published in the journal of the National Library of Argentina in 1961, La Biblioteca, under the title “Un diálogo anglosajón del siglo XI”. Borges’s reasons for selecting the text as well as the Old English sources used in this translation will be explored alongside his passion towards the subject of the translated passage.

Factors Affecting Toeic Achievement of The First Semester Students of Informatics Engeneering

The purpose of this study is to conduct case study on the factors affecting TOEIC pre-test grades of the students of Informatics Engineering in Duta Bangsa University in the academic year of 2019/2020. The respondents are 10 students. The data were obtained by interviewing, questionnaire and collecting the documents from the students TOEIC grades. The data were in the forms of interview transcripts and documents. Then grounded theory was used to analyse the data. The result showed that in terms of internal factors, all of the students have interest in English because they like watching Film from YouTube or cinema with or without subtitle so they motivate to learn English. While from the external factors in terms of family background, six students come from educated family. They encourage their children in learning process. While, four students have parents who works as entrepreneur. They learn English by themselves not because their parents ask them to do. Two students said they won English competition at school. One student said the school really improve his English lesson. Three students have their own community at school. They can sometimes share, chat and talk in English. While the rest of students did not mention explicitly if school give impact on their English.
 Keywords: Internal factors; external factors; improve

Pelanggaran Maksim dan Strategi Pelanggaran yang Terjadi pada Dialog Aplikasi Chatbot Simsimi Bahasa Arab dan Inggris

In the era of technology that continues to develop, the way to communicate also develops. One of them is the chatbot as a friend of human communication. This research examines a chatbot that can make users laugh or upset because of the uniqueness of its responses. That is SimSimi, an artificial intelligence. This research examines the extent of SimSimi can communicate effectively and efficiently. In answering this matter, this research analyzes in what topics the flouting maxims are mostly committed by SimSimi. The analysis process relies on the principle of cooperation Grice (1975). Further, each flouting maxims is explored about the strategy of violations that occur, by referring to the idea of ​​Cutting (2002) about the maxim violation strategy. In addition, with SimSimi's multilingual expertise, this research also compares the differences in the frequency of flouting maxims by SimSimi in Arabic and English. Therefore, this research utilizes comparative studies using qualitative methods. The conversations analyzed were 40 conversations containing 4 topics. Based on 20 Arabic conversations, there were 32 flouting maxims. As for the 20 conversations in English, there were 30 flouting maxims. This shows the comparison of the frequency of flouting maxims in Arabic and English dialogue at 16:15. As for the strategies of flouting maxims that occurred, there are 10 kinds of strategies in Arabic dialogue and 6 kinds of strategies in English dialogue. In Arabic dialogues, the topic that contains the most violations of the maxims is the topic of religion. So it is with English dialogue. The results of the research show that SimSimi in English can communicate more effectively and efficiently compared to its use in Arabic.

Linguistic representation of the English legal system in modern media

The article deals with the image of the English justice system in online versions of English newspapers, magazines and radio talk shows. On the basis of the analysis of different types of word combinations used in the description of lawyers, judges, courts and everyday legal practices there have been revealed some positive and negative characteristics of the system. The effect of the recent cuts to legal aid on the functioning of the legal system is discussed. Conclusions are made about the state of British society today and links between law and politics. Ways of incorporating this knowledge in the English language classroom are outlined.

Understanding focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence

This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance accepts or rejects; or whether it implicates a positive or negative answer); and (ii) there are utterances with identical prosodic focus that in the same context are infelicitous with one contour, but felicitous with another. We offer an account of two distinct pitch contours that predicts the correct felicity judgements and implicatures, outclassing other models in empirical coverage or formality. Prosodic focus triggers a presupposition, where what is presupposed and how the presupposition is resolved depends on prosodic contour. If resolving the presupposition entails the proffered content, then the proffered content is uninteresting and hence the utterance is in-felicitous. Otherwise, resolving the presupposition may lead to an implicature. We regiment this account in SDRT. BibTeX info

PROSODIC ORGANISATION OF REFUSAL UTTERANCES: THEIR CORRECT CODING, DECODING AND ACTUALISATION IN ENGLISH DIALOGUE SPEECH

The article focuses on the specificity of correct coding and decoding of refusal utterances in English dialogue speech and their intonation patterns taking full account of the importance of a communicative context in which the utterances occur. The author states that the communicative context to be considered while perceiving the refusal intonation patterns includes the following complex of factors: the communicative situation (formal, informal), the relation of speaker’s social status to the recipient’s status (higher, equal, and lower), the explicit or implicit form of the refusal, the speaker’s socio-cultural level (high. mid, low), emotional-and-pragmatic potential of the utterance (high, mid, low) as well as the class of reasons for the refusal utterances generation “I do not want to”, “I cannot”, “I can but I do not want to”, “I want but I cannot”). In this paper the author studies the suprasegmental level means contributing to correct coding and decoding of the utterance information and the speaker’s emotional state and his/her pragmatic intention. 70 students of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute aged 18-21 took part in the experiment. The author reports the results of the study of difficulties experienced by learners while mastering intonation patterns of English refusal utterances. The results of the research prove that intonation plays the leading role in correct encoding and decoding of refusal utterances’ meaning.

Conversational implicatures in English dialogue: Annotated dataset

Abstract Human dialogue often contains utterances having meanings entirely different from the sentences used and are clearly understood by the interlocutors. But in human-computer interactions, the machine fails to understand the implicated meaning unless it is trained with a dataset containing the implicated meaning of an utterance along with the utterance and the context in which it is uttered. In linguistic terms, conversational implicatures are the meanings of the speaker’s utterance that are not part of what is explicitly said. In this paper, we introduce a dataset of dialogue snippets with three constituents, which are the context, the utterance, and the implicated meanings. These implicated meanings are the conversational implicatures. The utterances are collected by transcribing from listening comprehension sections of English tests like TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) as well as scraping dialogues from movie scripts available on IMSDb (Internet Movie Script Database). The utterances are manually annotated with implicatures.

Lobizona by Romina Garber

Reviewed by: Lobizona by Romina Garber Fiona Hartley-Kroeger Garber, Romina Lobizona. Wednesday/St. Martin's, 2020 [400p] (Wolves of No World) Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-250-23912-9 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-250-23914-3 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 8-12 An ICE raid on her undocumented mother's workplace sends sixteen-year-old Manuela Azul on the run, and she's astonished to find her way to a secret magical school in the Everglades where her extraordinary, conspicuous gold-and-silver eyes fit right in. The girls there are brujas (witches), the boys are lobizones (werewolves), and parts of her secretive human mother's past begin to make sense as Manu learns about a magical world. The magical society's rigid gender binary, already under question by its younger generation, is threatened when half-human Manu turns out to be not a bruja but a lobizona, and her existence attracts the attention of both Cazadores (magical law enforcement) and a secret group of would-be revolutionaries who follow in the footsteps of a mysterious missing man named Fierro. As a politically exigent #ownvoices novel (inspired by the folklore of Garber's Argentinian birthplace) with a rich exploration of hybrid identities, it's an astute and absorbing piece of magical realism. The magical school story, complete with a first romance and a girl-joins-the-boys'-sportsball-team plot, treads well-worn territory, but it will nonetheless appeal to a broad audience. There's certainly no lack of timely, discussion-worthy material here; Garber's interweaving of Spanish and English dialogue is utterly seamless; and a girl werewolf book to offer alongside Klause's Blood and Chocolate (BCCB 7/97) is always very welcome indeed. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Gregory the Great as Intermediary Figure between East and West: The Eleventh-Century Manuscript Context of the Old EnglishDialogues

Eleventh-century England, especially its reform-minded clerics, exhibited both interest in and wariness toward the anchoritic aspects of the eastern ascetic tradition. This article argues that two eleventh-century manuscripts of the Old English Dialogues reflected these concerns by making Gregory the Great into a teacher of eastern asceticism through an association between the Dialogues and other ascetic texts understood as eastern, the Admonitio ad filium spiritualem and the Verba Seniorum. Doing so gave the eastern texts an unimpeachable lineage that ran through Gregory and Benedict of Nursia, and as a consequence subtly altered the use of the translatio studii such that in these manuscripts it provides justification for past texts as well as present ones. By considering these texts together instead of separately, it becomes apparent how the prefaces of the Dialogues and its accompanying eastern ascetic texts connect through shared descriptions of instruction, and consequently how the prefaces of the eastern texts make space to insert Gregory into the chain of transmission and translation from the East to England.

Sector -Wise Performance of FDI Equity Inflows in India

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in the development process of a country. It has the potential for contributing to the development through the transfer of financial resources, technology and innovative and improved management techniques along with raising productivity. Developing countries like India need substantial foreign inflows to achieve the required investment to accelerate economic growth and development. It can act as a catalyst for domestic industrial development. Further, it helps in speeding up economic activity and brings with it other scarce productive factors such as technical knowledge and managerial experience, which are equally essential for economic development. India has been the most significant beneficiary of remote direct interest in most of its various segments. It likewise assumes a significant job in the advancement of a nation. India is the biggest popularity based nation with the second biggest populace on the planet, with the standard of law and exceedingly instructed English talking work power, the nation is considered as a sheltered spot of assurance for outside financial specialists. The study covers the performance of FDI Equity inflows in India and the sector-wise performance of FDI Equity inflows in India. The samples of sector-wise FDI inflows in India are selected based on the convenient sampling method. A Sample of 10 sectors has been selected based on the availability of data. The inflow of FDI in the media transmission and Constrictions utilizing combined example t’ test P worth is 0.049 (Less than the estimation of 0.05). Henceforth we may accept the invalid speculation with 95% certainty. The Construction (foundation) exercises and Power utilizing combined example t’ test. P worth is 0.016 (Less than the estimation of 0.05). Subsequently, we may accept the invalid theory with 95% certainty

The Comparison Study of English Humor and Chinese Cross Talk by Epistemics

For several decades, English humor and Chinese cross talk have been studied from the field of epistemics. The main factors making the differences between them are different epistemic gradients between the speaker and the recipient. Both of them would present their respective epistemic status through their epistemic stance, i.e. different grammatical syntax. As both the speaker and the recipient occupy different positions on an epistemic gradient (from more knowledgeable K+ to less knowledgeable K-), the current study applied three kinds of grammatical syntax and illustrated the speaker’s moment-by-moment expression of speaker’s epistemic domain, including declarative syntax, tag questions, and interrogative syntax from both English humor and classical Chinese cross talk. Through the analysis of the dialogues, the study revealed the following aspects. First, both speakers and recipients compete for epistemic status during their interaction. They would like to adopt different epistemic stances to show that they are more informative than their partners. Second, humor is the essential part of both English humor and Chinese cross talk, which can be easily understood even though it is in different media. Third, the ultimate purpose of English humor and Chinese cross talk is to create a harmonious atmosphere and maintain good social relations. (Taiyuan Normal University, Jeonju University)

Utilizing Recorded English Dialogues in Teaching English Word Stress to Islamic Higher Education Students in Indonesia

The objective of this study is to know the effectiveness of recorded English dialogues in developing the students understanding of English word stress for Islamic Education students. The study employed the classroom action research design. The subject of this study was undergraduate EFL students at the Islamic Education Department in 2018/2019 academic year. The data were collected through four research instruments: observation checklist, questionnaire, field notes, and test. The result of study shows that teaching English word stress through the utilizing recorded English dialogue performed by the researcher is effective to develop students understanding of English word stress. The primary criteria to judge that the students have development are that from the score they gained from two phases of test. In the first test, the students’ development reached 56.25%. Meanwhile, in the second test, students’ development attained 81.25%. Since learning achievement is calculated based on the number of students who get the target score, so it can be stated that the learning achievement has been attained.

A corpus-based study of composite predicates in Early Modern English dialogues

Abstract Composite predicates (CPs), that is, complex predicate structures comprising a light verb and an eventive noun (e.g., make a move or give a speech) are common in Present-day English and are particularly characteristic of spoken language. The aim of the paper is to trace language changes involving CPs from 1560 to 1760, a period in which the use of CPs has not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Specifically, the study examines the frequencies, lexical productivity and syntactic patterns of CPs in two types of Early Modern English (EModE) dialogues, drawn from Trial Proceedings and Drama Comedy sampled in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 – a 1.2-million word computerized corpus of EModE speech-related texts. The results reveal significant differences between the two types of dialogue and shed light on the development of CPs in association with grammaticalization and lexicalization.

Joaquim Jordà and Núria Villazán's Mones com la Becky [Monkeys Like Becky] (1999) and the New Global Disability Documentary Cinema

The documentary Mones com la Becky [Monkeys Like Becky] (1999) by Joaquim Jordà and Núria Villazán is a touchstone for global studies of the representation of cognitive difference. This challenging visual investigation into the violent international history of the lobotomy also foregrounds questions of theatrical and cinematic representation as they relate to cognition. Featuring dialogue in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and English, Mones com la Becky uses a variety of formal strategies identified by theorist Bill Nichols to push beyond the limits of staid documentary filmmaking. This article makes the case that Jordà and Villazán's film should be seen as an early example of what David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder have called the "new disability documentary cinema."

Improving Speaking Ability of Students in English Introduction Material Through Snowball Throwing Games in Class VII B SMPN 3 Surabaya

The ability of students in class VII at SMPN 3 Surabaya to speak English is still low from year to year with indicators when expressing English verbally often stopping in the middle of a conversation, the average duration of speaking is under 5 minutes, using very limited vocabulary, lacking courage start talking in English both to the teacher and to classmates. The snowball throwing learning model is a type of cooperative learning that is designed like a ball throwing game. This method aims to provoke creativity in making questions while testing the absorption of material delivered by the group leader. By using the snowball throwing model in Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted on students of class VII B in semester 1 of SMPN 3 Surabaya, it is expected that this game can improve students' speaking skills in English. Test instruments in the form of performance tests, formative and interviews were previously judged content by expert academics. From processing the formative performance test results in 2 cycles, the talk duration of students increased by an average of 8 minutes, mastery of vocabulary more with the use of diction better and correct, from the results of interviews showed students were more motivated to talk and learning was felt fun. It was concluded that the snowball throwing method was able to improve the speaking ability of VII B students of SMPN 3 Surabaya in English.

Optimal Relevance In English Dialogues By EFL Iraqi Students

Optimal Relevance In English Dialogues By EFL Iraqi Students

Ere and before in English historical corpora, with special reference to the Corpus of English Dialogues

Abstract In this paper, the use of two roughly synonymous temporal adverbial links, ere and before, will be discussed. The survey will cover the history of English, from Old to Present-day English. It is based on historical corpora, particularly on the Corpus of English Dialogues (1560–1760). Ere (Old English ær) was originally temporal, while before (Old English beforan) goes back to the spatial form. In Old English and Early Middle English ere is clearly more common than before; from Late Middle English on, before becomes the more favoured link. The Corpus of English Dialogues and later corpora indicate that the use of ere is remarkably restricted to informal and speech-related discourse.

INDENTIFYING PRAGMATIC FAILURES IN DIALOGUE SCRIPTS OF EFL LEARNERS

Most of the EFL learners consciously or unconsciously speak English using the same way they communicate their native languages which have different patterns and cultural backgrounds. In writing English dialogue scripts, most students in West Sumatera province transfer their mother languages to national language first and then to English language. As a result, beyond many spelling and syntactic errors found in the scripts, pragmatic failures are the most dominant issues captured. The students’ pragmatics failures are categorized into pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic failures in accordance with Jenny Thomas (1983). This present study provides overviews of phenomenon in EFL dialogue scripts made by students of UPI YPTK Padang. It investigated students from 6 classes who have learned basic English in the previous semester. The students are asked to make a simple dialogue in groups with certain chosen topics and are allowed to use dictionary if necessary. The study showed that the students limitation of English language proficiency and pragmatic transfer result in pragmalinguistic failures such as failure to follow the native expressive habit, misunderstanding of words, use English with semantics and structure of students’s mother tongues, verbose verbs and that sociopragmatic failure lies in perception and expression of local pragmatic conventions.