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Less is More/More Diverse: On The Communicative Utility of Linguistic Conventionalization [PDF]
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 We present empirical evidence of the communicative utility of conventionalization, i.e., convergence in linguistic usage over time, and diversification, i.e., linguistic items acquiring different, more specific usages/meanings.
Elke Teich +3 more
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The Conventionalization of Local Food: Farm Reflections on Local, Alternative Beef Marketing Groups
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Across North America, the local food market has been peddled as an alternative or value-added production and marketing niche for small and midscale family farms.
Phil Mount, John Smither
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An evaluation of the conventionalization signs of organic markets in Brazil
Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2020 Neste artigo é feita uma análise acerca da interdependência entre variáveis que indicam o processo de convencionalização dos mercados de orgânicos. Esta correlação acontece também entre estas variáveis, os mercados de alimentos e insumos e as normas que ...
Lillian Bastian, Paulo Dabdab Waquil
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Conventionalization, expectation, politeness and pragmatic impact: A German perspective
Linguistik OnlineWhile politeness has originally been closely associated with indirectness in early politeness research, the field has since moved to a view that conventionalized indirectness tends to be the preferred option by interlocutors.
Stefanie Stadler
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Chile has played a relevant role in neoliberal global food production since the 1980s, using the motto "Chile: An Agro-food Power." Thus, it is relevant to enquire about the exercise of individual and collective citizenship on the part of agricultural ...
Beatriz Cid-Aguayo
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Cognitive LinguisticsThis paper scrutinizes the conventionalization of the Spanish expression la de que (‘the amount of that’), a reduced variant of la cantidad de que. The study seeks to determine the diachrony of and mechanisms underlying the emergence and diffusion of ...
Marttinen Larsson Matti
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Central Taurus Sign Language: On the Edge of Conventionalization
, 2021 We discuss the conventionalization process in Central Taurus Sign Language (CTSL), an emerging sign language in its initial stages, and present evidence from four studies for the amount of lexical and structural variation it harbors.
Leyla Kürşat +3 more
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Phonology and conventionalization: Naturalness and beyond in German(ic) sonorants [PDF]
, 2023 In Natural Linguistics a major concern regards conventionalization as opposed to the roll-out of naturalness. In this short homage, I will discuss these issues with the focus on the unstable status of sonorants, discussing a couple of examples coming ...
Gaeta, Livio
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Instituting Interaction: Normative Transformations in Human Communicative Practices
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Recent experiments in semiotics and linguistics demonstrate that groups tend to converge on a common set of signs or terms in response to presented problems.
John Z. Elias, Kristian eTylén
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The Conventionality of Simultaneity and Einstein’s Conventionality of Geometry [PDF]
Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science, 2018 Abstract The conventionality of simultaneity thesis as established by Reichenbach and Grünbaum is related to the partial freedom in the definition of simultaneity in an inertial reference frame. An apparently altogether different issue is that of the conventionality of spatial geometry, or more generally the conventionality of ...
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