Sentence examples for multilingual studies from inspiring English sources

SFL considers language typology to be part of a broader research area, namely multilingual studies (see Fig. 4).

Her presentation of linguistic data in most parts is, however, more illustrative than descriptive and the general goal is to construct a theoretical framework for multilingual studies.

In addition to language typology, multilingual studies comprise contrastive analysis, comparative linguistics and, as a limiting case, the description of individual languages other than English (Caffarel et al. 2004: Ch. 1; Matthiessen et al. 2008; Teruya and Matthiessen 2015).

Recommended definition: Translatability assessment (TA) of a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure is the review of its source text preferably during the development stage, prior to its use, in order to determine its suitability for future translations in multilingual studies.

As Fig. 4 shows, these different domains of multilingual studies can be situated along a cline, with typology and description of single languages at extreme poles of the continuum (cf. Matthiessen et al. 2008).

As mentioned earlier, Michael Halliday's description of Chinese in the 1940's and 1950's (e.g. Halliday and Ellis 1951; Halliday 1956 , 1959 as well as the multilingual approach to language study J. R. Firth had established in London set the stage for the evolution of systemic functional theory, in general, and systemic multilingual studies, in particular.

Consequently, this in situ multilingual study in the archipelago of Vesterålen investigated this assumption.

Informed consent for participation in the study, including HIV testing, was obtained from the care givers who received pre-test and post-test counselling from an experienced multilingual study counsellor.

In total 750 interviews are conducted face-to-face by multilingual field workers each month, to which, for this study they added 125 interviews with white British people for comparison with the ethnic minority groups.

Based on a multilingual comparison study, Burkhardt et al. [60] reported on the effects of prosodic changes on emotional speech.

Although both authors of the current study are multilingual, the search for studies was conducted in English only because most of the largest studies on the topic are conducted in the English-speaking, western world (possibly due to high costs of longitudinal studies) and/or are published in English.