アドバイステイキョウニオケルゲンゴノケンショウ ドウシRecommendノケンキュウ

　 This study is about the language used in the speech act of advice-giving. It deals with the use of one particular verb, recommend, in advice-giving in informal spoken English. Data comes from the SOAP Corpus and the study includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis, focusing particularly on the collocates of recommend, and what can be learned from them about the ways in which recommend is used in advice-giving

Japanese loanwords in English : A corpus-based study

　 This study examines a sample of Japanese loanwords currently used in English with the aim of describing patterns of usage over time and identifying genres in which loanwords are most commonly used. The study is based on investigation of loanwords in two large corpora: The Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) and The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Findings indicate that, with few exceptions, Japanese loanwords are not very frequent in English, though there is a tendency for their frequency to increase over time

ジョゲンノイイマワシニカンスルコウサツ：“Suggest”トイウドウシニツイテ

　 This study investigates the use of the lexical item, suggest, in the speech act of advising. Data from two large corpora, SOAP Corpus and COCA, are examined to check the frequency of suggest as a performative verb. It was found that the frequency depends not so much on whether it is from the spoken or written mode, but rather on the topic, speaker and context. Suggest was frequently used in introducing proposals, and this raises a question of whether proposals should be considered one type of advice-giving

Short-term effects of marijuana smoking on cognitive behavior in experienced male users

The effects of smoking marijuana on the ability to use abstract concepts was tested in 12 experienced marijuana users. Each subject was tested three times, after smoking prepared 300 mg cigarettes containing either 0, 1.5 or 2.9% δ 9 -THC in different sessions according to a Latin Square design. The same number of whole and/or partial cigarettes was smoked by each subject in each of the three sessions. This was determined for individual subjects by the number of 2.9% δ 9 -THC marijuana cigarettes that the subject had been willing to smoke in a pre-experimental session up to a maximum of 1200 mg. The following tests of concept formation and usage were used: 1. a letter series test; 2. a word grouping test; 3. a conceptual clustering memory test; 4. a closure speed test; 5. Witkin's Embedded Figures Test; 6. a size weight illusion test; 7. Luchin's Water Jar Test; 8. Luchin's Hidden Word Test; and 9. an anagram test. Marijuana smoking led to a dose-related impairment on the letter series, word grouping, closure speed, and Embedded Figures test. Performance on the size-weight illusion, Luchin's Water Jar, Luchin's Hidden Word, and the anagram tests were unaffected. Conceptual clustering decreased after marijuana smoking. In most cases only the differences between 0 and 2.9% δ 9 -THC marijuana were statistically significant.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46387/1/213_2004_Article_BF00429295.pd