Persuasion in Earnings Calls: A Diachronic Pragmalinguistic Analysis [PDF]
This study investigates persuasive language in earnings calls. These are routine events organized by companies to report their quarterly financial results. The analysis is based on the earnings calls of 10 companies in the third quarter of 2009, when financial markets were still suffering from the global financial crisis, and the third quarter of 2013 ...
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From “Mr. Guthrie is profoundly mistaken ...” to “Our data do not seem to confirm the results of a previous study on...”: A diachronic study of polemicity in academic writing (1810-1995) [PDF]
Objective: The objective of this paper is to investigate the quantitative and qualitative diachronic evolution of critical (Cr) with respect to non-critical (NCr) references in English medical discourse over a 185 year-period.Materials and Methods: We ...
Françoise Salager-Meyer
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Wandel visueller Darstellungsformen in den dänischen Sprichwörtersammlungen aus dem Zeitraum 1944-2023 [PDF]
The article analyses the use of illustrations in 34 Danish proverb collections from the period 1944-2022. The aim of the analysis is to determine the conventions and illustration strategies from a diachronic perspective.
Józef Jarosz
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A Diachronic Analysis of Definiteness in Georgian Based on the GNC
In: Proceedings of the international conference "LMT - Language and Modern Technologies 2022", Tbilisi, Georgia.
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship.
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
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Diachronic analysis of major acupoints used in ancient and current acupuncture treatments: Changes in main acupoints over time. [PDF]
Yoo Y, Ryu Y, Lee IS, Chae Y.
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Diachronic corpus analysis of the functional load distribution of the lexeme beauty in British and American Discourse [PDF]
The paper aims to establish the distribution of the functional load (FL) among the meanings of the English lexeme beauty across three chronological slices and to trace the dynamics of semantic temperature and entropy.
Irina A. Zhilina
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Linguastatistical analysis of dominant meanings in the inaugural speeches of 21st-century leaders of the USA, the UK, and Russia [PDF]
The paper presents a diachronic analysis of inaugural speeches delivered by the leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia over the period 2000–2025, aiming to identify the evolution of lexical dominants in political discourse under the
Tatyana A. Shiryaeva, Daniil N. Bondarev
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The coastal wetlands are among the most vulnerable and threatened environments of the Mediterranean area. Targeted actions for their conservation require in-depth knowledge of current and past natural vegetation. In this paper, we surveyed the vegetation
Saverio Sciandrello +2 more
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