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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND IMPLICATURES IN UNDERSTANDING TOEFL SHORT CONVERSATION
Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, 2012 Listening comprehension is found to be among the most difficult tasks for the learners due to several reasons. Mostly, test-takers find difficulty in interpreting the intended meaning of the utterances in the TOEFL examination. To understand the intended
Desi Tri Cahyaningati
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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Respectful Debiasing in Democratic Deliberation
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic deliberation about health policy requires, as one of its inputs, ethical judgments from members of the public. These judgments may, however, be biased and unreliable—they may be systematically distorted by framing and emotion effects, by the effects of self‐interest, and by a whole host of other cognitive and affective biases ...
Shang Long Yeo
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PRESUPPOSITIONS AND IMPLICATURES [PDF]
, 2008 Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Ienneke, Indra Dewi
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Conversational implicature: a diachronic cognitive pragmatic approach
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis study conducts a corpus-based diachronic investigation of the noun phrase hóngyǎn (红眼) and proposes the diachronic cognitive pragmatic model to demonstrate that particularized conversational implicatures develop into generalized conversational ...
Ruili Su, Yanfei Zhang
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EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONS OF IMPLICATURES IN NORTHERN KURMANJI
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆThe current paper explores the functions of implicatures in Northern Kurmanji (NK). It lays concentration on the non-literal meanings (interpretation) that speakers convey beyond the literal one of either their speech or writing.
Nechirvan Jawzal, Fakhir Mohammed
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Elsya, 2021 Public service announcements (PSAs) are the official way for governments to inform, educate and change public behaviour in order to reduce public health issues, such as Covid-19.
Susan Marbun +2 more
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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature
Synthese, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study investigated how high‐evidence factors jointly contribute to Chinese‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (CFL) speaking self‐efficacy. Data from 236 CFL learners in Beijing revealed a multifaceted pattern of associations.
Peijian Paul Sun +3 more
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