Contrastive Study about the Appearance of Self-effacement Among Japanese and Korean Women: The Case of Female University Students upon their First Acquaintance with a Stranger

The paper combines learner corpus research with contrastive analysis to test the applicability of corpus-driven methods to the study of phraseology in learner academic English. It explores phraseological patterns in English L2 academic texts written by Czech university students in comparison with English L1 novice and expert writing. Three corpus-driven approaches are employed: frequency lists, keywords and lexical bundles. The results indicate that a combination of corpus-driven methods can indeed serve as an effective starting point for the contrastive study of phraseology, highlighting potentialareas of under- and overuse of multi-word patterns in English L2 novice academic texts. However, in order to give a more comprehensive picture of learner academic English, quantitative methods have to be combined with qualitative contrastive analysis.

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A Contrastive Study of Chinese and American University Students’ “Friend” Concepts

Journal of Education and Training Studies ◽

10.11114/jets.v3i6.1059 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Cheng Chen

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

American University ◽

Contrastive Study

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Viewing music videos: Emotion and viewer interpretation

Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie ◽

10.1026//1617-6383.14.2.69 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 69-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joan M. Preston ◽

Michael Eden

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Emotional Content ◽

Music Videos ◽

Music Video ◽

Mediating Factors ◽

Comparative Media

Abstract. Music video (MV) content is frequently measured using researcher descriptions. This study examines subjective or viewers’ notions of sex and violence. 168 university students watched 9 mainstream MVs. Incidence counts of sex and violence involve more mediating factors than ratings. High incidents are associated with older viewers, higher scores for Expressivity, lower scores for Instrumentality, and with video orders beginning with high sex and violence. Ratings of sex and violence are associated with older viewers and lower scores for Instrumentality. For sex MVs, inexperienced viewers reported higher incidents and ratings. Because MVs tend to be sexier but less violent than TV and film, viewers may also use comparative media standards to evaluate emotional content MVs.

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