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Referential Cohesion, Ambiguity, Vagueness and Generality in Parliamentary Debate*
Abstract Political discourse has been characterised as being ‘vague’ and ‘ambiguous’. It is argued that politicians tend to use generic and unspecific words in order to avoid explicit commitment (McGee 2018). Although this situation may describe discourse genres such as political interviews and election debates, it is unclear that it can be applied to ...
Josep E. Ribera
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Pragmatic Ambiguity, Implicatures, and Translation1
Abstract The goal of this work is to put forward a pragmatic and translational framework for analysing target texts (TT) and source texts (ST) containing conversational implicatures that lead to pragmatic ambiguity. Ambiguity, sensu lato, is deemed to be related to indeterminacy and vagueness.
Pau Francesch, Lluís Payrató
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Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609) was a polygraph who composed several poetical works that describe the daily life of the Bolognese people. This paper examines Alfabeto de’ giuocatori, a poem dedicated to the theme of the game and of the vices and virtues ...
Gloria Camesasca
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A binary system of complementizers in Cimbrian relative clauses [PDF]
The system of Cimbrian relative clauses manifests itself in a complex scenario: two different complementizers occur in this context: i) the ‘autochthonous’ (Germanic) bo, cognate of Southern German wo, and ii) the ‘allochthonous’ ke, borrowed from ...
Bidese, Ermenegildo +2 more
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FLAX: Flexible and open corpus-based language collections development [PDF]
In this case study we present innovative work in building open corpus-based language collections by focusing on a description of the opensource multilingual Flexible Language Acquisition (FLAX) language project, which is an ongoing example of open ...
Fitzgerald +4 more
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Abstract Ambiguity is conventionally defined in Linguistics as a property of a word or an utterance that has two meanings or two interpretations, and is usually classified as lexical, morphological, syntactic (or structural), and pragmatic. Giving an adequate definition of linguistic ambiguity is not trivial, nor is there unanimity in accepting it ...
Jordi Fortuny, Lluís Payrató
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The development of translation theories in Europe [PDF]
Este artigo trata do desenvolvimento dos estudos da tradução na Europa, no siculo XX. O maior enfoque está na mudança da perspeciiva de pesquisa, da comparação entre línguas para a confrontação de textos e da focalização datradução como atividade ...
Stolze, Radegundis
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Filologias do presente para o futuro
Este artigo explora a natureza multifacetada da filologia, traçando suas raízes na história ocidental desde a Grécia clássica até seu florescimento na Alexandria helenística e a subsequente integração na Europa durante o Renascimento e depois.
James I. Porter
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Artykuł jest wynikiem krytycznej lektury opublikowanej niedawno książki Philology. The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities. Jej autor, James Turner, amerykański historyk, przedstawia genezę i rozwój współczesnych nauk humanistycznych.
Monika Opalińska
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El riure a Les dones i els dies, de Gabriel Ferrater [PDF]
Treballs Finals de Grau de Filologia Catalana, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2016-2017, Tutors: Joan Santanach Suñol i Josep Murgades BarcelóAquest treball estudia la relació que hi ha entre el fenomen del riure a Les dones i els
Casamayor de Bolòs, Roser
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