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“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future‐Making
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage.
Sabrina Stallone
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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DIRECTIVES IN JAVANESE OF TEGAL: A CASE STUDY OF DRAMA ON PERTIWI RADIO [PDF]
, 2016 Drama on the radio is still one of the effective media to convey messages to its listeners. Pertiwi Radio, owned by the local government of Tegal regency, is one of radio stations in the region to convey messages, especially from the government to ...
Mualimin, Mualimin
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English Linguistics Research, 2016 This case study centres to focus on 4 recording transcriptions as the main data from an outside-in perspective, to aim to analyze the different illocutionary forces expressed by a 60-year-old Chinese woman; thus, to seek whether there are any illocutionary differences between familiar people and strangers conveyed from her stories.
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THE ART OF RHETORIC USING STYLISTIC DEVICES IN WORLD UNIVERSITIES DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP: A Study of Pragmatics [PDF]
, 2016 Debating is recognized as a way of doing persuasion in speech that deals with four points of debate pillars, for instance: assertion, reasoning, evidence, and link back.
Hamzah , Yusuf, Mita , Amalia Rosaria
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, 2018 Social media platforms allow users to perform different speech acts: status updates could be assertives, a like is an expressive, a friendship request is a directive, and so on.
Arielli, Emanuele
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A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 72-82, March 2026.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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Exclamative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface [PDF]
, 2013 Exclamative clauses exhibit a structural diversity which raises the question of whether they form a clause type in the sense of Sadock & Zwicky (1985).
Zanuttini, Raffaella
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Embarrassed to Observe: The Effects of Directive Language in Brand Conversation
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 11, Page 2922-2938, November 2025.ABSTRACT In social media, marketers attempt to influence consumers by using directive language, that is, expressions designed to get consumers to take action. While the literature has shown that directive messages in advertising have mixed results for recipients, we know little about the effects of directive brand language on consumers who see brands ...
Andria Andriuzzi, Géraldine Michel
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Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i JezikoslovljeThe article presents the results of a corpus-based study of interpersonal relations between the reviewer and the author aiming to analyze negative politeness strategies and identify linguistic resources employed by the reviewers to avoid face-treatening ...
Olga Boginskaya
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