Languages in Business Education: Introduction
Edited by Lieven Buysse, Karoline Claes and Erwin Snauwaert
Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 161 (2011) ca. 123 pp.
Lieven Buysse
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lieven Buysse plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Articles
2022. CIUTI conferences as fora preparing for revolutions in T&I. Intelligences pour la traduction. IA et interculturel : actions et interactions., Maggi, Ludovica and Sarah Bordes (eds.), pp. 185–187
Miscellaneous
2019. Steve Buckledee, The Language of Brexit: How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union. English Text Construction 12:1, pp. 137–142
Review
2017. Question tags in translation: An investigation into the translatability of English question tags into Dutch. Languages in Contrast 17:2, pp. 157–182
Canonical question tags feature prominently in spoken English, where they display great versatility. At face value they are meant to elicit a response from a co-participant in the form of (dis)agreement with the proposition to which the tag has been added. Their pragmatic scope is, however,… read more | Article
2014. Review of Aijmer (2013): Understanding Pragmatic Markers: A Variational Pragmatic Approach. English Text Construction 7:1, pp. 145–149
Review
2011. The Business of Pragmatics. The Case of Discourse Markers in The Speech of Students of Business English and English Linguistics. Languages in Business Education: Introduction, Buysse, Lieven, Karoline Claes and Erwin Snauwaert (eds.), pp. 10–30
This paper investigates how foreign language learners use discourse markers (such as so, well, you know, I mean) in English speech. These small words that do not contribute much, if anything at all, to the propositional content of a message but modify it in subtle ways, are often considered among… read more | Article
2011. Languages in Business Education: Introduction. Languages in Business Education: Introduction, Buysse, Lieven, Karoline Claes and Erwin Snauwaert (eds.), pp. 5–9
Introduction
2009. Review of Aijmer (2009): Corpora and Language Teaching. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:4, pp. 549–556
Review
2022. L1 and non-L1 perceptions of discourse markers in English. Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives, Beeching, Kate, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna E. Piasecki (eds.), pp. 222–245
Although critical reception of discourse markers (DMs) such as like and you know has often been noted, surprisingly little research has actually investigated this attitudinal perspective on usage. Moreover, a recent, rapidly expanding body of research on non-L1 speakers’ use of discourse markers in… read more | Article