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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

TINDAK TUTUR ILOKUSI DALAM NEGOSIASI UPACARA MEMINANG (KAJIAN ETNOGRAFI KOMUNIKASI)

Bahastra, 2017
The study proposes marriage ceremony backdrop for their negotiations with language Minangkabau. Negotiations in this study aims to explain the culture of oral tradition in particular illocutionary speech act.
Redo Andi Marta
doaj   +1 more source

A qualitative assessment of quantitative easing sentiment

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract This mixed‐method study undertakes a comprehensive inquiry of the public discourse on social media surrounding quantitative easing (QE) across the US, the UK, and the European Union. Utilizing a unique tweet dataset, we reveal the sentiment polarity toward QE policy to be strongly negative, at 71.27%, with positive sentiment a mere 4.25 ...
Niamh Wylie, Martha O’Hagan‐Luff
wiley   +1 more source

Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
wiley   +1 more source

AN ILLOCUTIONARY AND PERLOCUTIONARY STUDY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IN ENOLA HOLMES 2

Tell-us Journal
This study aims to examine the illocutionary acts used by the secondary character, Sherlock Holmes, in the movie Enola Holmes 2. Using a descriptive qualitative method, the study analyzed the dialogue in the movie transcript to identify the types of ...
Maulidya Rochmah, Suhandoko Suhandoko, Nur Rosyidah, Marsha Aqillah Putri Syuhra   +3 more
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Genre and Conversation

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

What's in a Promise?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

Politeness Principles in “Donald Trump’s Election Victory Speech"

Humanis, 2019
This paper entitled “Politeness Principles in Donald Trump’s Election Victory Speech: A Pragmatic Study” discusses the maxims of politeness principles, illocutionary acts and the illocutionary functions found in the victory speech of Donald Trump on ...
Putu Eka Giri Mariani, Made Budiarsa, Ni Made Ayu Widiastuti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Precarious agency: The role of uptake

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source