5/28/2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific

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Linguistic Characteristics of Academic ELF Registers

 

This talk explores linguistic variation within written academic English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) by applying Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) to two registers: Academic Research Papers (ARPs) and Academic Research Blogs (ARBs). The analysis, based on 150 texts from each register, reveals two key dimensions: Interaction-focused vs. Information-focused discourse, and Expression of Stance. The findings show ARPs exhibiting higher information density and explicit stance-marking, while ARBs tend to feature a more interaction-focused style with clausal structures and informal markers. The presentation highlights the implications of these findings for understanding the hybrid and flexible nature of ELF writing in diverse academic contexts.

Presenter:
Nur Yağmur Demir is a Ph.D. candidate at Northern Arizona University. She received her BA (Boğaziçi University – 2016) and MA (Middle East Technical University – 2021) in English Language Education in Turkey. She has several years of experience in teaching English and Turkish in EFL contexts. She is interested in register appropriateness and humanlikeness of AI-generated texts, corpus linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, and computer-mediated communication.

Hosted by CIRT-IG:
Elizaveta Kuznetsova, CIRT-IG Co-coordinator
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Setting: Live Virtual
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