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Nonverbal Clause Constructions

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT There are about a dozen well‐recognised types of nonverbal clause constructions, but the terminology by which these subtypes are known varies widely. This paper gives an overview of the major types and defines each term carefully, from the perspective of general syntax.
Martin Haspelmath
wiley   +1 more source

The Translation of English Politeness Marker in Giving Invitation into Indonesian: Does It Influence the Illocution?

, 2022
The utterance of invitation is sometimes used to show a polite attitude to others. However it is rarely attracted linguists’ attention compared to other type utterances.
Havid Ardi
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Illocution and cognition: a constructional approach

, 2001
This book presents a constructional approach to the study of illocution. Ten directive and commisive speech act categories are analyzed in order to establish their semantic make-up in the form of propositional Idealized Cognitive Models (or ICMs).
Pérez Hernández, Lorena
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Illocution of Rumeli Folk Songs

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Folk songs based on human experiences; are oral cultural elements that passed down from generation to generation. These cultural elements contribute to the formation of a cultural memory sand to cultural continuity. When the relationship between language
Pelin Seçkin
doaj   +1 more source

Slurring silences

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 497-525, March 2025.
Abstract Silence can be a communicative act. Tanesini (2018) demonstrates how “eloquent” silences can virtuously indicate resistance and dissent; in this paper, I outline one way silence can also be used viciously to cause discursive harm, specifically by slurring victims. By distinguishing between eloquent and “signaling” silences (two kinds of what I
A. G. Holdier
wiley   +1 more source

Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 447-459, February 2025.
Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical consensus, the system makes it so. I label this phenomenon system‐dependent truth. This paper advances a theory of performative truthmaking, wherein the agencies
Elliott Hauser
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational silence, reconsidered

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 6, Page 652-668, December 2024.
Abstract In ‘Conversational Pressure. Normativity in Speech Exchanges’ (2020), Sanford Goldberg discusses the significance of conversational silence, arguing that, absent certain defeating conditions, we have a general entitlement to assume that somebody who remains silent in a conversation doesn't reject what was said. Call this ‘No‐Silent‐Rejection’ (
Anna Klieber
wiley   +1 more source

The violences of disability disclosure and the aberrant possibilities of the crip

Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Volume 24, Issue 4, Page 948-959, October 2024.
Abstract This article delves into the processes of disability disclosure, cripped experiences and a particular theoretical flight with posthuman subjectivity. The article critiques disability disclosure for coercively reifying cripped experiences into normative narratives. Moreover, disclosures determine coercive and performative regimes in educational
Brad Bierdz
wiley   +1 more source

Svetlana Aleksijevitj och den dokumentära rösten

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2016
”To whom am I shouting? Who listens?”: Voice and Ethics in Svetlana Alexievich’s Zinkyboys Few authors have engaged so intensively with the human voice as Svetlana Alexievich.
Anna Jungstrand
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The definition of assertion: Commitment and truth

Mind &Language, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 540-560, September 2024.
According to an influential view, asserting a proposition involves undertaking some “commitment” to the truth of that proposition. But accounts of what it is for someone to be committed to the truth of a proposition are often vague or imprecise, and are rarely put to work to define assertion. This article aims to fill this gap.
Neri Marsili
wiley   +1 more source