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Kuidas nii, kalapulki?! (’How so, fishfingers?!’): A surprise-question in Estonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2023 This article presents a study of the use of Estonian elliptical interrogatives formed with kuidas nii (‘how so’) in literary texts of the Estonian-French parallel corpus, focusing on their discourse functions.
Anu Treikelder
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What Still Needs to be Noted: Pseudo-Clefts in the Academic Discourse of Applied Linguistics
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Pseudo-clefts are the building blocks of coherent discourse progression and serve as a rhetorical toolkit to construct an authorial stance in the academic discourse.
Hui Zhou, Ming Chen
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A lexical bundle analysis of art-related crowdfunding projects
Ibérica, 2023 In the context of Open Science, crowdfunding projects are gaining increasing attention. They are becoming an alternative way of funding research and an opportunity for researchers across the disciplines to share and disseminate their work widely while ...
Alberto Ángel Vela-Rodrigo
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The discourse function of "well", "and" and "now" in turn-initial positions in interruptive speech
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 The central focus of this article is to discuss the discourse functions of "well", "now" and "and" as turn-initial interruptive devices in a radio discourse. To achieve this goal, the study relies on a detailed analysis of transcribed recordings of four
Siti Nurbaya Mohd. Nor
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Discourse Markers of Humor Analysis in Trevor Noah’s Stand-Up Comedy
Lingual, 2021 Discourse markers have been widely studied in various discourses such as political discourse, legal, media discourse, and even daily conversation. However, there is still a lack of discourse markers research in humor studies.
Eko Suci Priyono, Zainur Rofiq
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Typologizing nominal expressions: the noun phrase and beyond
Linguistics, 2022 This article develops foundations for a new typology of nominal expressions. Despite the significant diversity attested in languages around the world, a view traditionally and sometimes still found holds that languages either have ‘classic’, rigidly ...
Louagie Dana, Reinöhl Uta
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Pragmatic and Discourse Functions in Jenifa’s Diary
Linguistik Online, 2021 Existing studies on comedies in Nigeria have focused mainly on stand-up comedy, with little attention devoted to situation comedies. This study, therefore, investigates the pragmatic acts that are used to reflect inherent societal issues revealed under ...
Ganiu Bamgbose, Beryl Ehondor
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Discourse-Interactional Functions of Udmurt val and vylem [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 The paper discusses the discourse-interactional functions of the past tense forms of the âbeâ-verb in Udmurt (val and vylem). We focus on the analytic past tenses, in which forms of the âbeâ-verb are traditionally analysed as auxiliaries.
Mari Saraheimo, Rebeka Kubitsch
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The Expressive Use of Adjectives in Metropolitan Anthony Bloom’s Religious Discourse
Linguaculture, 2022 An overwhelming personality of the 20th century, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom was the spiritual head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Great Britain (1948-2003) who really raised the British people’s awareness of what Orthodoxy meant.
Mona-Ancuța Ionescu
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The acquisition of four adverbs in a learner corpus of L2 French
Discours, 2017 This empirical study of a learner corpus of 40 interviews, investigates the acquisition of the four adverbs aussi, peut-être, seulement and vraiment (also, mayby, only and really). Although these four adverbs are non-obligatory elements in the utterance,
Victorine Hancock, Anna Sanell
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