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Verbal Violence in the Press: A Case Study of Persian Newspapers [PDF]
One of the important functions of language is conveying each person’s emotions to another people. Emotions are abstract concepts that should be converted into concrete concepts in order to become comprehensible; Metaphors and adjectives are common tools ...
Mohammad RasekhMahand+3 more
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The Characteristics of Adjective Usage in the Language of Advertisements
The objectives of the study were to identify the semantic groups of the adjectives incorporated into the advertisements and to discuss the relationship between the adjective usage and manipulation strategy of the advertisements.
Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė+1 more
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In this paper, we will give a unified account of the cross-linguistic variation in the encoding of adjectives in predicative and in attributive constructions. Languages may differ in the encoding strategy of adjectives in the predicative domain (Stassen 1997), and sometimes change this strategy in the attributive domain (Verkerk 2007).
Verkerk, A., Lestrade, S.
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On the Reference of inni The study focuses on the adjective inny [other] which appears in sentences in a noun position, yet with the noun absent, e.g. Nie porównuj się do innych; Inni dołączą do nas po 18 [literally in English: Do not compare yourself
Mariola Wołk
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Adjective Derivational Affixation in English
Penelitian ini berjudul Afiksasi Derivasional Pembentukan Kata sifat dalam Bahasa Inggris, bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran mengenai jenis-jenis afiks derivasional pembentukan kata sifat beserta proses pembentukannya, makna afiksafiks derivasional ...
Baiq Zuhrotun Nafisah
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Adjectives and boundedness [PDF]
This paper examines the significance of the schematic domain of BOUNDEDNESS in adjectives. It is proposed that boundedness in adjectives is a fundamental characteristic associated with gradability. Cross-categorial correspondences are made to nouns and verbs, where boundedness is a feature of countability and aktionsart respectively. Two basic types of
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Discrimination Starts with Adjectives
Discrimination starts with adjectives.
Edwin Herazo, Adalberto Campo-Arias
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This study deals with finding and describing the meaning and function of Indonesian prefix ter- in the investigation report. This study applied descriptive qualitative research to find out the data.
Ni Wayan Suastini, Kadek Apriliani
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This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier+6 more
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Jak se odrazízájem o téma zdraví a nemocí v užití vybraných kolokací v českých textech
Themes of “health” and “illness” háve been always very popular in spoken and written communication in Czech. In the corpora o f spoken Czech the words zdraví (health), nemoc, choroba, and onemocnění (illness) are often infrequent, depending on the smáli ...
Ivana Kolářová
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