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Papers by Anna Mauranen

De Gruyter eBooks, Feb 17, 2023

Contents 157 7.1.2 Commenting 168 7.2 Managing situation 177 7.3 Conclusion 179 X Contents Chapte... more Contents 157 7.1.2 Commenting 168 7.2 Managing situation 177 7.3 Conclusion 179 X Contents Chapter 8 Discourse reflexivity across speech events 184 8.1 Incidence and distribution of discourse reflexivity in the data 184 8.1.1 Rate of discourse reflexivity in spoken discourse 185 8.1.2 Rate of discourse reflexivity in written dialogue 189 8.2 Comparing dialogic and monologic speech events 190 8.3 Discourse reflexivity in spoken and written dialogue 195 8.4 Conclusion 199 Chapter 9 Conclusion 204 9.1 What have we learned from dialogic data? 205 9.2 Other interesting findings 207 9.2.1 Co-presence in speaking 207 9.2.2 Embodied vs disembodied communication 209 9.2.3 Long discussions 210 9.2.4 Social asymmetries 211 9.3 What were the commonalities? 213 9.4 Where next? 214 List of figures 219 References 221 Index 233 Contents XI Chapter 1

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 3, 2020

Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, Apr 24, 2017

Routledge eBooks, Sep 29, 2017

Routledge eBooks, Mar 29, 2019

This book explores the emerging area of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academic settings. Th... more This book explores the emerging area of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academic settings. The emergence and recognition of English used as a Lingua Franca (ELF) offers new opportunities for investigating language change and language contact. This volume explores the use of English in an academic context and between speakers from a range of language backgrounds, and is the only book to date to present spoken academic English from a non-native speaker perspective. Data examined from the one-million-word English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA) corpus provides an in-depth account of how speakers use and shape the language through dialogue in intellectually and verbally demanding situations. Available separately as a paperback.

Pragmatics & beyond, Mar 15, 1996

1. Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Context and Genre 4. Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing... more 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Context and Genre 4. Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing (by Myers, Greg) 5. Three Hypothetical Strategies in Philosophical Writing (by Bloor, Thomas) 6. Occluded Genres in the Academy: The Case of the Submission Letter (by Swales, John M.) 7. Academic Writing in Computer Science: A Comparison of Genres (by Bloor, A. Meriel) 8. The Hidden Curriculum of Technology for Academic Writing: Toward a Research Agenda (by Evensen, Lars Sigfred) 9. 2. Culture and Textuality 10. 'Look in Thy Heart and Write': Students' Representations of Writing and Learning to Write in a Foreign Language (by Riley, Philip) 11. Academic Writing in Czech and English (by Cmejrkova, Svetla) 12. Packing and Unpacking of Information in Academic Texts (by Ventola, Eija) 13. Discourse Competence - Evidence from Thematic Development in Native and Non-Native Texts (by Mauranen, Anna) 14. Learning Discipline-Specific Academic Writing: A Case Study of a finnish Graduate Student in the United States (by Connor, Ulla) 15. Name Index 16. Subject Index

NeuroImage, Jul 1, 2022

Chunking language has been proposed to be vital for comprehension enabling the extraction of mean... more Chunking language has been proposed to be vital for comprehension enabling the extraction of meaning from a continuous stream of speech. However, neurocognitive mechanisms of chunking are poorly understood. The present study investigated neural correlates of chunk boundaries intuitively identified by listeners in natural speech drawn from linguistic corpora using magneto- and electroencephalography (MEEG). In a behavioral experiment, subjects marked chunk boundaries in the excerpts intuitively, which revealed highly consistent chunk boundary markings across the subjects. We next recorded brain activity to investigate whether chunk boundaries with high and medium agreement rates elicit distinct evoked responses compared to non-boundaries. Pauses placed at chunk boundaries elicited a closure positive shift with the sources over bilateral auditory cortices. In contrast, pauses placed within a chunk were perceived as interruptions and elicited a biphasic emitted potential with sources located in the bilateral primary and non-primary auditory areas with right-hemispheric dominance, and in the right inferior frontal cortex. Furthermore, pauses placed at stronger boundaries elicited earlier and more prominent activation over the left hemisphere suggesting that brain responses to chunk boundaries of natural speech can be modulated by the relative strength of different linguistic cues, such as syntactic structure and prosody.

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2004

Helda (University of Helsinki), 2017

This paper presents a new speaker change detection system based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) ... more This paper presents a new speaker change detection system based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks using acoustic data and linguistic content. Language modelling is combined with two different Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) acoustic approaches: i-vectors and speaker factors. Both of them are compared with a baseline algorithm that uses cosine distance to detect speaker turn changes. LSTM neural networks with both linguistic and acoustic features have been able to produce a robust speaker segmentation. The experimental results show that our proposal clearly outperforms the baseline system.

Languages in Contrast, Dec 7, 2004

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000

De Gruyter eBooks, Feb 17, 2023

Contents 157 7.1.2 Commenting 168 7.2 Managing situation 177 7.3 Conclusion 179 X Contents Chapte... more Contents 157 7.1.2 Commenting 168 7.2 Managing situation 177 7.3 Conclusion 179 X Contents Chapter 8 Discourse reflexivity across speech events 184 8.1 Incidence and distribution of discourse reflexivity in the data 184 8.1.1 Rate of discourse reflexivity in spoken discourse 185 8.1.2 Rate of discourse reflexivity in written dialogue 189 8.2 Comparing dialogic and monologic speech events 190 8.3 Discourse reflexivity in spoken and written dialogue 195 8.4 Conclusion 199 Chapter 9 Conclusion 204 9.1 What have we learned from dialogic data? 205 9.2 Other interesting findings 207 9.2.1 Co-presence in speaking 207 9.2.2 Embodied vs disembodied communication 209 9.2.3 Long discussions 210 9.2.4 Social asymmetries 211 9.3 What were the commonalities? 213 9.4 Where next? 214 List of figures 219 References 221 Index 233 Contents XI Chapter 1

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 3, 2020

Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, Apr 24, 2017

Routledge eBooks, Sep 29, 2017

Routledge eBooks, Mar 29, 2019

This book explores the emerging area of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academic settings. Th... more This book explores the emerging area of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in academic settings. The emergence and recognition of English used as a Lingua Franca (ELF) offers new opportunities for investigating language change and language contact. This volume explores the use of English in an academic context and between speakers from a range of language backgrounds, and is the only book to date to present spoken academic English from a non-native speaker perspective. Data examined from the one-million-word English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA) corpus provides an in-depth account of how speakers use and shape the language through dialogue in intellectually and verbally demanding situations. Available separately as a paperback.

Pragmatics & beyond, Mar 15, 1996

1. Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Context and Genre 4. Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing... more 1. Preface 2. Acknowledgements 3. 1. Context and Genre 4. Strategic Vagueness in Academic Writing (by Myers, Greg) 5. Three Hypothetical Strategies in Philosophical Writing (by Bloor, Thomas) 6. Occluded Genres in the Academy: The Case of the Submission Letter (by Swales, John M.) 7. Academic Writing in Computer Science: A Comparison of Genres (by Bloor, A. Meriel) 8. The Hidden Curriculum of Technology for Academic Writing: Toward a Research Agenda (by Evensen, Lars Sigfred) 9. 2. Culture and Textuality 10. 'Look in Thy Heart and Write': Students' Representations of Writing and Learning to Write in a Foreign Language (by Riley, Philip) 11. Academic Writing in Czech and English (by Cmejrkova, Svetla) 12. Packing and Unpacking of Information in Academic Texts (by Ventola, Eija) 13. Discourse Competence - Evidence from Thematic Development in Native and Non-Native Texts (by Mauranen, Anna) 14. Learning Discipline-Specific Academic Writing: A Case Study of a finnish Graduate Student in the United States (by Connor, Ulla) 15. Name Index 16. Subject Index

NeuroImage, Jul 1, 2022

Chunking language has been proposed to be vital for comprehension enabling the extraction of mean... more Chunking language has been proposed to be vital for comprehension enabling the extraction of meaning from a continuous stream of speech. However, neurocognitive mechanisms of chunking are poorly understood. The present study investigated neural correlates of chunk boundaries intuitively identified by listeners in natural speech drawn from linguistic corpora using magneto- and electroencephalography (MEEG). In a behavioral experiment, subjects marked chunk boundaries in the excerpts intuitively, which revealed highly consistent chunk boundary markings across the subjects. We next recorded brain activity to investigate whether chunk boundaries with high and medium agreement rates elicit distinct evoked responses compared to non-boundaries. Pauses placed at chunk boundaries elicited a closure positive shift with the sources over bilateral auditory cortices. In contrast, pauses placed within a chunk were perceived as interruptions and elicited a biphasic emitted potential with sources located in the bilateral primary and non-primary auditory areas with right-hemispheric dominance, and in the right inferior frontal cortex. Furthermore, pauses placed at stronger boundaries elicited earlier and more prominent activation over the left hemisphere suggesting that brain responses to chunk boundaries of natural speech can be modulated by the relative strength of different linguistic cues, such as syntactic structure and prosody.

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 2004

Helda (University of Helsinki), 2017

This paper presents a new speaker change detection system based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) ... more This paper presents a new speaker change detection system based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks using acoustic data and linguistic content. Language modelling is combined with two different Joint Factor Analysis (JFA) acoustic approaches: i-vectors and speaker factors. Both of them are compared with a baseline algorithm that uses cosine distance to detect speaker turn changes. LSTM neural networks with both linguistic and acoustic features have been able to produce a robust speaker segmentation. The experimental results show that our proposal clearly outperforms the baseline system.

Languages in Contrast, Dec 7, 2004

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000

Metadiscourse In Digital Communication, 2021

This book combines a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to metadiscourse and offe... more This book combines a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to metadiscourse and offers new conceptual tools and frameworks for analysing written, spoken and multimodal discourse. The studies included in the volume draw on data collected from different contexts of digital communication, offering new perspectives on the role of metadiscourse in building and maintaining interaction between individuals and within different communities. Importantly, the studies included here are not restricted to academic and professional domains, as several authors explore new research avenues, such as communication on social media platforms."