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“I can't remember them ever not doing what I tell them!” : Negotiating face and power relations in ‘upward’ refusals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong [PDF]
This paper explores how refusals are constructed and negotiated in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. A particular focus is on the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese subordinates negotiate issues of face and power relations when refusing their ...
Schnurr, S +3 more
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Perspective pragmatique sur l’anaphore
The aim of linguistic pragmatics is the study of how meaning is computed in inferences and implicatures and what effects speech acts and presuppositions may have.
Jean Albrespit
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Se reseñó el libro: Discourse pragmatics and the verb.
Martha Jurado Salinas
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Noun Classifier Extension in Q'anjob'al (Mayan): Acquiring a Gender Stereotype
Linguists have not fully explored the correlation between sociolinguistic variation and pragmatics of nominal classifier systems. When pragmatics is discussed, the focus is usually on anaphora under a restricted conceptualization of “discourse” that ...
Duncan, Philip T.
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Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics: Their Scope and Relation
In this article I delve into the seas of the disciplines of Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, trying to perform the difficult task of delimiting their scope and discussing their common and non-common ground, in order to present a general idea of the ...
Laura Alba-Juez
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Theory of Discourse and Stylistics The subject of this article is the structure of modern scientific knowledge in the field of communicative linguistics, including such fields and disciplines as stylistics, pragmatics (functional pragmatics), text ...
Aleksander Kiklewicz
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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Perspektivy stilistiki diskursa v svete dalʹnej i otložennoj pragmatiki
This páper reports on the dynamics of the anthropocentrism principle which has deter- mined three development stages o f linguistic pragmatics - communicative, cognitive and discursive ones.
Georgij G. Hazagerov
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Relatedness of content and sentence formation in Japanese
Leech (1983: 63-70) distinguishes two kinds of pragmatics, interpersonal prag matics and textual pragmatics. Our article is concerned with textual pragmatics, spe cifically with the textual motivations behind a format such as a sentence in Japanese ...
Andrej Bekeš
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Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and coastal Spanish
Book synopsis: This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation ...
Placencia, Maria Elena +1 more
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