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The Social Identity of Arabic Language and its Significance in Contemporary Lexicology
Language arises in the arms of societies, and it has its images and uses in different life contexts, which affect the formation of its linguistic structures, its specialized nature and its productions in various knowledge, sciences, arts and contemporary
Hussein Omar Darawsheh
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Categorical perception of affective and linguistic facial expressions [PDF]
Two experiments investigated categorical perception (CP) effects for affective facial expressions and linguistic facial expressions from American Sign Language (ASL) for Deaf native signers and hearing non-signers. Facial expressions were presented in isolation (Experiment 1) or in an ASL verb context (Experiment 2).
Karen Emmorey, Stephen McCullough
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Emotive, evaluative, epistemic: A linguistic analysis of affectivity in news journalism [PDF]
In this article, we introduce a linguistic approach to studying affectivity as a fundamental feature of news journalism. By reconceptualising affectivity beyond emotive storytelling, intentional stance-taking or evaluative expression, we propose a methodology that highlights how conventions related to mediating, modulating and managing affectivity ...
Koivunen, Anu+5 more
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In this paper I focus on the interaction between affect and language as articulated in the works of Theodor W. Adorno and Julia Kristeva, sometimes in inchoate and non-explicit ways. Language is always in transit, exile, and dispossession.
Marcia Morgan
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Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis.
Plungyan V. A.
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The transition from affective to linguistic meaning [PDF]
This paper reports a transition from affective to linguistic meaning in 15-month-old infants. Behaviour regulation in the context of a social referencing procedure is used as a measure of the meaning of stimulus messages for infants. Of particular interest is the extent to which receptive vocabulary predicts behaviour regulation by language and ...
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia+34 more
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Female Fertility Affects Men's Linguistic Choices
We examined the influence of female fertility on the likelihood of male participants aligning their choice of syntactic construction with those of female confederates. Men interacted with women throughout their menstrual cycle. On critical trials during the interaction, the confederate described a picture to the participant using particular syntactic ...
Michael P. Kaschak, Jacqueline M. Coyle
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Gender influence on literature [PDF]
There are opponents and proponents in the new debate on feminine and masculine literature. Opponents emphasize nonsexual nature of literature, and feminist and proponents of research from different perspectives have arrived at the conclusion that ...
Roohangiz Karachi
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Representation of Authorial Stance in German Scientific Text: Diachronic Change
The paper analyzes historical change in article in strategies and linguistic means of representation of authorial stance in German scientific texts of the 17th-19th centuries.
Y. S. Klochkova
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