Terese Thonus
Biographic Data
| ID | 210588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terese Thonus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terese |
| FAMILY NAME | Thonus |
| SIGNATURE | THONUS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Madison Group (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5613-8322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Disciplinary Identity of Second Language Writing
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This paper examines conceptual metaphor use by graduate-student writing consultants in a university writing center. Our goal was to develop a taxonomy for consultant metaphor in asynchronous online consultations; to find evidence that consultants could produce deliberate metaphors as an instructional strategy when responding asynchronously by e-mail to students and their texts; and to compare these data with Thonus’s (2010) investigation of consu…
Dominance in Academic Writing Tutorials
This article investigates tutor dominance in academic writing tutorials within the framework of institutional discourse. Tutor gender and tutee gender and language proficiency, as well as the interaction of the three, are considered as exponents of interactant dominance. Pragmatic measures of tutor dominance selected are frequency of directives, directive type, and mitigation strategies. Analysis indicates that these features of tutors' speech re…
Names on the Tongue
Anderson, Maicon, and Thyago
TN ITS ROLE AS THE INTERNATIONAL functional auxiliary language, English has been implicated as a prime source for neologisms in a variety of languages worldwide (Kachru 1986, Moag 1982). Language contact results in onomastic as well as lexical borrowing. This paper seeks to demonstrate and explain the influence of English on male naming practices in Brazil during the period 1967-87, as part of a larger process of Englishization (Kachru 1982, 6). …
The Influence of English on Female Names in Brazil
First names given to Brazilian females between 1967 and 1987 show considerable influence of English. A descriptive analysis classifies the names and compares orthographic and phonological versions with names in English-speaking countries as well as those within the sample. Although English has had little effect on the Portuguese language, results demonstrate that its influence on the naming system is significant
Englishization of business names in Brazil
Longman Preparation Course for the Toefl
This contains the tapescript and answer key for the Longman TOEFL preparation course for which a course book and cassette are also available. The course aims to break down each section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language into teachable skills for students to master. It is designed for universities and private schools, particularly in the USA and Canada
Englishization of business names in Brazil
Anderson, Maicon, and Thyago
TN ITS ROLE AS THE INTERNATIONAL functional auxiliary language, English has been implicated as a prime source for neologisms in a variety of languages worldwide (Kachru 1986, Moag 1982). Language contact results in onomastic as well as lexical borrowing. This paper seeks to demonstrate and explain the influence of English on male naming practices in Brazil during the period 1967-87, as part of a larger process of Englishization (Kachru 1982, 6). …
The Influence of English on Female Names in Brazil
First names given to Brazilian females between 1967 and 1987 show considerable influence of English. A descriptive analysis classifies the names and compares orthographic and phonological versions with names in English-speaking countries as well as those within the sample. Although English has had little effect on the Portuguese language, results demonstrate that its influence on the naming system is significant
Dominance in Academic Writing Tutorials
This article investigates tutor dominance in academic writing tutorials within the framework of institutional discourse. Tutor gender and tutee gender and language proficiency, as well as the interaction of the three, are considered as exponents of interactant dominance. Pragmatic measures of tutor dominance selected are frequency of directives, directive type, and mitigation strategies. Analysis indicates that these features of tutors' speech re…
Longman Preparation Course for the Toefl
This contains the tapescript and answer key for the Longman TOEFL preparation course for which a course book and cassette are also available. The course aims to break down each section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language into teachable skills for students to master. It is designed for universities and private schools, particularly in the USA and Canada
The Influence of English on Female Names in Brazil
First names given to Brazilian females between 1967 and 1987 show considerable influence of English. A descriptive analysis classifies the names and compares orthographic and phonological versions with names in English-speaking countries as well as those within the sample. Although English has had little effect on the Portuguese language, results demonstrate that its influence on the naming system is significant
Englishization of business names in Brazil
Anderson, Maicon, and Thyago
TN ITS ROLE AS THE INTERNATIONAL functional auxiliary language, English has been implicated as a prime source for neologisms in a variety of languages worldwide (Kachru 1986, Moag 1982). Language contact results in onomastic as well as lexical borrowing. This paper seeks to demonstrate and explain the influence of English on male naming practices in Brazil during the period 1967-87, as part of a larger process of Englishization (Kachru 1982, 6). …
Names on the Tongue
Dominance in Academic Writing Tutorials
This article investigates tutor dominance in academic writing tutorials within the framework of institutional discourse. Tutor gender and tutee gender and language proficiency, as well as the interaction of the three, are considered as exponents of interactant dominance. Pragmatic measures of tutor dominance selected are frequency of directives, directive type, and mitigation strategies. Analysis indicates that these features of tutors' speech re…
Follow this path
This paper examines conceptual metaphor use by graduate-student writing consultants in a university writing center. Our goal was to develop a taxonomy for consultant metaphor in asynchronous online consultations; to find evidence that consultants could produce deliberate metaphors as an instructional strategy when responding asynchronously by e-mail to students and their texts; and to compare these data with Thonus’s (2010) investigation of consu…
The Disciplinary Identity of Second Language Writing
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)