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Unity in the Variety of Quotation [PDF]
This chapter argues that while quotation marks are polysemous, the thread that runs through all uses of quotation marks that involve reference to expressions is pure quotation, in which an expression formed by enclosing another expression in quotation ...
Ludwig, Kirk, Ray, Greg
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Traversing the speech and thought presentation features of Merlinda Bobis’s “The Sadness Collector” [PDF]
This study aims to describe the effects of stylistic features in extrapolating the meaning and sociocultural realm of Merlinda Bobis’s short story, “The Sadness Collector.” The story’s theme, the breakdown of a family brought about by migration, is ...
Rachelle B. Lintao
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‘Deixis am phantasma’ or imagination-oriented deixis is a mode of reference, originally described by Karl Bühler, that directly brings into play one of the distinctive properties of human language, namely the unlimited capacity to dislocate in space and
Emilia Maria Calaresu
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Fictionnal wirting at school as the meeting of the language of the other
This article is aimed to show one aspect of the imaginative capacity of pupils – the meeting with the discourse of the other – through the representation of speech.
Catherine Boré
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The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama [PDF]
This paper is part of an extensive study of cinematic dialogue in a variety of film genres in Italian, which aims to address the disregard for the verbal plane that characterises film theory and, particularly, genre theory.
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Apophatic Austen: Speaking about Silence in Austen’s Fiction
In this essay I examine Austen’s interest in the rhetorical figure of apophasis, which occurs when a speaker claims not to say something but, in fact, says it.
Anne Toner
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Reporting Strategies of Israeli Print Media: and as a Case Study
It prominently figures that media discourse has acquired a vantage point during the past decades over churches and trade unions as an influential source of information that could drastically shape public opinion.
Tarak Dridi
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This article is a sociocritical reading of the novel L’espace d’un cillement (1959) by Jacques Stephen Alexis. In this novel the Carib is an important chronotope and the magic realism, understood as programmatic discourse, reaches a peculiar level of
Kwaterko, Józef
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Foucault and Sedgwick: The Repressive Hypothesis Revisited
This essay examines the Foucauldian foundations of queer theory in the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. The essay argues that Sedgwick’s increasing disappointment with Foucault’s critique of the repressive hypothesis is in part produced by the slippery ...
Lynne Huffer
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Speech Acts: The Contemporary Theoretical Landscape [PDF]
What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This is the central question of speech-act theory. Answers to it—i.e., theories of speech acts—have proliferated.
Fogal, Daniel +2 more
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