Indirect Discourse: Parataxis, the Propositional Function Modification, and “That” [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of this paper is to assess the general viability of Donald Davidson's paratactic theory of indirect discourse, as well as the specific plausibility of a reincarnated form of the Davidsonian paratactic theory, Gary Kemp's propositional ...
Johnson, Michael Alan
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The Function of Memes in Political Discourse
TopoiAbstractThe use of memes has become increasingly widespread in political discourse. However, there is a dearth of philosophical discussion on memes and their impact on political discourse. This paper addresses this gap in the literature and bridges the divide between the empirical and philosophical work on memes by offering a functionalist account ...
Anderau, Glenn, Barbarrusa, Daniel
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Evaluation in experimental research articles [PDF]
, 1989 This thesis examines evaluation in experimental research articles in terms of the meanings made and their contribution to the organisation of the articles.
Hunston 1953-, Susan
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Explaining and Arguing in Negotiation – The Role of Questions [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2015 The paper describes questions as a syntactic, semantic and discourse category and reviews research on the processes of question formation, question selection, and question discourse functions.The focusis on questions and their role in the discourse of ...
Otilia Huţiu
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Fluid identities : contextualising genital reconstructive surgery after female circumcision in Burkina Faso : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. [PDF]
, 2016 Female circumcision procedures were traditionally performed on many girls and women in Burkina Faso. These practices were outlawed in 1996, and are now termed ‘female genital mutilation’ by the government and activists trying to stop them.
Nyarango, Margaret
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The Conventionalization of the Passive in Late Modern Scientific English [PDF]
, 2008 [Abstract] This paper is part of a larger project in which I seek to find out the reasons behind the radical decrease in the use of passives in Present-day English scientific discourse.
Seoane, Elena
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The Possessive NP Construction: Discourse Function and Discourse Profile
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2002 Pragmatists and discourse grammarians have benefited tremendously from examining naturally occurring data. An examination of all and only the necessary discoursal conditions obtaining when a certain linguistic expression occurs has paved the way for pragmatists to describe the appropriateness conditions placed on linguistic forms. These were identified
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PHATIC FUNCTION IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Foreign Languages in Higher Education, 2018 The paper puts forward the hypothesis that in academic discourse the phatic function not only provides the discourse continuity but also possesses a discourseorganizing feature. It helps lectures be continued and structured with the help of certain lecture specific tokens, which we have called phatic tokens.
Astghik CHUBARYAN, Nare HAKOBYAN
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A note on the linear, logit and probit functional form of the labour force participation rate equation [PDF]
The commonly used specification in regional economic research on labour force participation is the linear probability function. An important alternative recommended in the Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics in the contribution of Isserman et al ...
J. Paul Elhorst
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