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This paper focuses on describing the strategic use of interrogative constructions in Spanish during the communicative interaction that takes place in couples therapy sessions.
María Querol-Bataller
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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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Mitigation via exemplification in present-day Italian: A corpus-based study
The paper addresses the pragmatic functions of exemplification in Italian by focusing on a set of exemplifying constructions such as non so (Eng. ‘I don’t know’) and tipo (Eng. ‘like’).
Maria Cristina Lo Baido
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Le début des phrases en français parlé
Current research on spoken corpora of French reveals that the beginning of sentences may take a variety of distinct forms, which we wish to review in our article.
Frédéric Sabio +2 more
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ZUSTIMMUNG und ABLEHNUNG: Methodologie der Analyse eines Sprachhandlungsmusters
The article aims to demonstrate a consistent methodology for conducting research of verbal communication behavior and identification of its peculiarities in different language cultures.
Elizaveta Kotorova
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A Constructionist Approach to Illocution: The Case of Orders
The present contribution studies the semantic base of orders at level 3 of the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2008; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009).
Nuria del Campo Martínez +1 more
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Entrenching Inferences in Implicational and Illocutionary Constructions [PDF]
Abstract: The starting point for the present paper is the classification of constructions, understood as fixed pairings of form and meaning, into four levels of meaning representation, i.e., the argument-structure, implicational, illocutionary and discourse levels. The meaning part of constructions contains fixed and variable elements.
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Layering in structural-functional grammars [PDF]
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Butler, Christopher S. +1 more
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Identifying The Pragmatic Force Of Attiudinal Intonation In Some Selected Political Speeches
The main problem of the present study may be attributed to the fact that some politicians use different ranges and patterns of intonation when they want to express different emotions and attitudes that underlie different pragmatic forces. The study
Instructor Mahmood Atiya Farhan +1 more
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Blending versus conceptual interaction in the construction of illocutionary meaning: counterfactual pieces of advice [PDF]
The cognitive operation of conceptual integration or blending as described by Fauconnier and Turner (1994,1996) includes the notion of emergent structure, that is to say, conceptual structure, which is part of the blend and which is independent and/or inconsistent with that of the input spaces.
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