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'Well it's not very ideal...' The pragmatic marker 'well' in learner English KU Leuven
The pragmatic marker 'well' has received a lot of attention in studies on native speaker discourse and has served as an interesting testing ground for theories accounting for the multifunctionality of pragmatic markers. In the rapidly expanding body of research on pragmatic markers in learner English 'well' has also claimed a prominent position, but so far no comparison has been made of how learners of varying mother tongue backgrounds use ...
The pragmatic marker 'you know' in learner Englishes KU Leuven
The present study investigates the pragmatic marker you know in native and learner English. Previous research on you know has suggested that it is highly frequent among native speakers but is used much less by non-native speakers, and that the latter do not use it intersubjectively but rather for discourse-organisational purposes. These claims are put to the test in a quantitative and qualitative analysis of four components of the Louvain ...
'Well, well! What a surprise!' A diachronic look at the relation between 'well, well' and the pragmatic marker 'well' Universiteit Gent
The business of pragmatics: the case of discourse markers in the speech of students of Business English and English Linguistics Universiteit Gent
The business of pragmatics. The case of discourse markers in the speech of students of Business English and English Linguistics KU Leuven
This paper investigates how foreign language learners use discourse markers (such as so, well, you know, I mean) in English speech. These small words that do not contribute much, if anything at all, to the propositional content of a message but modify it in subtle ways, are often considered among the last elements acquired in a foreign language. This contribution reports on close scrutiny of a corpus of English-spoken interviews with Belgian ...
Do as the Romans do in Rome? A pragmatic corporate governance perspective beyond ethical relativism in Asian emerging markets Universiteit Antwerpen
GFAP-BDP as an acute diagnostic marker in traumatic brain injury Universiteit Antwerpen
Reliable diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health need. Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is expressed in the central nervous system, and breakdown products (GFAP-BDP) are released following parenchymal brain injury. Here, we evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of elevated levels of plasma GFAP-BDP in TBI. Participants were identified as part of the prospective Transforming Research And Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic ...
Plasmatic villin 1 is a novel in vivo marker of proximal tubular cell injury during renal ischemia-reperfusion KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
Early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI), a common condition with a high mortality risk, can be facilitated by specific and reliable biomarkers. Villin 1, a protein typically found in the brush borders of proximal tubular cells, has been detected in urine of patients with AKI, but its possible release in plasma remains unexplored.