Branka Živković
List of John Benjamins publications in which Branka Živković is involved.
Articles
2024 ‘Like to comment on that?’: Student-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university linguistics lectures Pragmatics and Society 15:6, pp. 811–838 | Article
Questions are powerful interactional devices which academic lecturers may use to facilitate learning, engage students and add to a lecture’s interactivity. This contrastive and corpus-based study examines student-oriented questions, i.e. those initiating a student response, in British and… read more
2023 ‘That is very important, isn’t it?’: Content-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university lectures Pragmatics 33:1, pp. 124–153 | Article
This study explores the use of content-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university lectures. It examines their formal realisation, their frequency and their contextual functions, as well as the differences and similarities related to these questions between British linguistics… read more
2022 The use of questions posed by professors in English and Montenegrin academic lectures: A corpus-based study Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 35:1, pp. 65–99 | Article
Although questions are considered as important linguistic devices employed by lecturers to communicate facts and ideas to students and facilitate the learning process, they have not been a topic of extensive research. With that in mind, this paper explores the types and functions of questions… read more