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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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Pragmatic Functions of Discourse Particles in Lutsotso conversations
Journal of Pragmatics ResearchThe study of the functions of discourse particles in the African languages has received much attention from various scholars, although not from a pragmatic perspective.
Joel Ongolo, Benard Mudogo, David Barasa
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Actualization of color lexicon functions in economic discourse
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филологияThe article adopts an approach that recognizes the adaptation of language use to changing communicative conditions and requires linguistic analysis with the obligatory consideration of the purpose of linguistic means in a certain type of discourse.
T. V. Andryukhina
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Discourse Functions of Zero Pronouns in Tai Dam [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 The aim of this study is to explore the zero pronouns in Tai Dam on the basis of a discourse approach using Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The objectives of this paper are as follows: (1) to explore the syntactic distribution of zero pronouns in Tai ...
Itsarate Dolphen
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Not a study of English! A corpus analysis of discourse features in spoken Burmese
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019 This paper is part of a larger research project on the ‘Comparative analysis of discourse markers in Burmese and in English’, and the product of my attempt to identify so-called particles in Burmese in terms of their discourse functions.
San San Hnin Tun
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Ibérica, 2017 This study was an attempt to explore how important points are highlighted in Persian academic lectures. More specifically, this paper was aimed to reach a taxonomy of importance markers based on (a) the discourse functions of importance markers, and (b ...
Javad Zare +2 more
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Discourse Markers in Political Speeches: Forms and Functions
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 Discourse markers are expressions used to connect sentences to what comes before or after and indicate a speaker's attitude to what he is saying.As linguistic items, they have important functions in discourses of various styles or registers.
Asst. Instructor Hind M. Ismail
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The Pragmatic Functions of Repetition in Media Discourse
RATE Issues, 2020 The study analyses the widely spread phenomenon of repetition in media discourse from a pragmatic point of view. The aim of the study is to identify and to describe its main functions.
Cristina Budeanu
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