Stephen J Disney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Disney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Disney |
| SIGNATURE | DISNEY S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Plymouth Marjon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6256-0236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Word-Final /s/-/z/ Omission in Vietnamese English
Southeast Asian learners of English, including those from Vietnam, frequently omit word-final consonants in their English speech. Previous work on Vietnamese learners of English is limited, and errors are typically usually attributed to first-language transfer effects. No large-scale empirical study on Vietnamese learners has been carried out to aid the development of an evidence-based pedagogy. This study uses authentic spoken data to compare le…
Figurative Language in Describing Pain and Lifestyle Impact
When we talk about our pain and how we are coping with its impact, our words are chosen to be personally meaningful and socially appropriate. Yet the words are not our own and our voice is cloaked in metaphor. Research has shown how novelty in pain descriptors is quite rare. Terms like a racking pain have been reused and recycled for hundreds of years, and some have meanings long obscured by time, although some originality occurs in as if and fee…
Another Visit to BE Supposed to from a Diachronic Constructionist Perspective
The BE supposed to string has meanings ranging from expressions of assumptions, hearsay, expectations, weak obligation, predestination and, in the negative, prohibition. Several problems have been discussed previously with the historical development of the deontic senses, most notably that it appears to break the “deontic to epistemic” unidirectionality constraint in grammaticalisation. Previous researchers have argued that the preceding accounts…
Another Visit to BE Supposed to from a Diachronic Constructionist Perspective
The BE supposed to string has meanings ranging from expressions of assumptions, hearsay, expectations, weak obligation, predestination and, in the negative, prohibition. Several problems have been discussed previously with the historical development of the deontic senses, most notably that it appears to break the “deontic to epistemic” unidirectionality constraint in grammaticalisation. Previous researchers have argued that the preceding accounts…
Another Visit to BE Supposed to from a Diachronic Constructionist Perspective
The BE supposed to string has meanings ranging from expressions of assumptions, hearsay, expectations, weak obligation, predestination and, in the negative, prohibition. Several problems have been discussed previously with the historical development of the deontic senses, most notably that it appears to break the “deontic to epistemic” unidirectionality constraint in grammaticalisation. Previous researchers have argued that the preceding accounts…
Figurative Language in Describing Pain and Lifestyle Impact
When we talk about our pain and how we are coping with its impact, our words are chosen to be personally meaningful and socially appropriate. Yet the words are not our own and our voice is cloaked in metaphor. Research has shown how novelty in pain descriptors is quite rare. Terms like a racking pain have been reused and recycled for hundreds of years, and some have meanings long obscured by time, although some originality occurs in as if and fee…
Word-Final /s/-/z/ Omission in Vietnamese English
Southeast Asian learners of English, including those from Vietnam, frequently omit word-final consonants in their English speech. Previous work on Vietnamese learners of English is limited, and errors are typically usually attributed to first-language transfer effects. No large-scale empirical study on Vietnamese learners has been carried out to aid the development of an evidence-based pedagogy. This study uses authentic spoken data to compare le…
Linguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Analogy (1 works) · Arithmetic (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Clinical Psychology (1 works) · Construction Grammar (1 works) · Coping (psychology (1 works)