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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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What are particularistic pejoratives?

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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Illocutionary indicators of sarcasm in the genre of sports analytical articles

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
Background. The article focuses on the pragma-stylistic mechanisms of sarcasm in the genre of sports analytical articles. The genre, which represents a detailed analysis of a sporting event or phenomenon together with its evaluation, is an evaluative ...
Ksenia A. Pavlova
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Strategies and tactics of solidarity and accusations of intimidation in an emotional speech

Записки з романо-германської філології, 2015
The article discusses the linguistic phenomena of solidarity, accusation and intimidation in an emotional speech as communicative strategies. It analyzes a series of interviews with politicians in terms of their use of certain linguistic means, stylistic
Д. В. Станко
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Clause-Type, Force, and Normative Judgment in the Semantics of Imperatives [PDF]

, 2018
I argue that imperatives express contents that are both cognitively and semantically related to, but nevertheless distinct from, modal propositions.
Charlow, Nate
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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
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The Development of Children’s Request Strategies in L1 Greek

Languages
The study investigated the developmental trajectory of the speech act of request among L1 Greek-speaking children spanning the preschool and primary school years (ages 4–11), aiming to address the scarcity of pragmatic research within this age range in ...
Stathis Selimis, Evgenia Vassilaki
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Quelques aspects du clause linkage dans le français oral : l’annotation syntaxique des séquences « subordonnées »

TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2013
The grammatical analysis of clauses introduced by a “subordinating conjunction” has always been a challenge for linguists because, on one hand, spontaneous spoken data exhibits highly variable syntactic and discursive organizations which have never been ...
Frédéric Sabio
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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
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Intonation and discourse : biased questions [PDF]

, 2008
This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions.
Asher, Nicholas, Reese, Brian
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