‘That is very important, isn’t it?’

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Branka Živković

2022

AbstractThis study explores the use of content-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university lectures. It examines their formal realisation, their frequency and their contextual functions, as well as the differences and similarities related to these questions between British linguistics lectures taken from the standard British corpora, and a specially compiled corpus of Montenegrin linguistics lectures. Compared to previous studies on content-oriented questions, one modified and five new functions are revealed, alongside one new formal realisation. The main differences between the corpora include the greater frequency of content-oriented questions in the Montenegrin lectures and a new questioning realisation, found only in the Montenegrin corpus, which is potentially attributable to differences between academic cultures. The major similarities relate to the use of the four most common question forms, which perform the same contextual functions. This contrastive study thus provides insights into the additional communicative functions and forms of content-oriented questions in university lectures.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

‘That is very important, isn’t it?’

Preuzmite dokument 2022 Branka Živković

Faculty of Philology - University of Montenegro

Assessment of FL Syllabi at Three Montenegrin Universities

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Faculty of Philology - University of Montenegro

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Preuzmite dokument 2021 Branka Živković

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Abstract Although questions are considered as important linguistic devices employed by lecturers to communicate facts and ideas to students and facilitate the learning process, they have not been a topic of extensive research. With that in mind, this paper explores the types and functions of questions asked by British and Montenegrin lecturers. It examines similarities and differences between two corpora – standard British academic corpora and a specially created corpus of Montenegrin lectures....

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