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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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ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures.
Luciana María Cignetti +1 more
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Verbalisation of an alternative academic position in totalitarian discourse
Background. In Soviet Ukraine, academic discourse often acted as a means of implementing language planning, in particular as a tool for the transformation of the language corpus. All grammar textbooks published after 1933 broadcast the official knowledge:
Natalia Kobchenko
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IMPLIKATUR PERCAKAPAN ANAK USIA 7 TAHUN DALAM KEGIATAN ANAK DAN ORANG TUA PADA KONTAK INTERPERSONAL
Conversational implicatures are hidden expressions of intent that can occur in various speech situations, one of which is in interpersonal contact between children and parents.
Ririn Tria Piani +4 more
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
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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Implicatures of modified numerals: quantity or quality? [PDF]
We propose a new analysis of modified numerals that allows us to: (i) predict ignorance with respect to the prejacent of at least (and thereby avoid to Bernard Schwarz's recent criticism of Coppock and Brochhagen 2013), (ii) get a three-way contrast ...
Ciardelli, Ivano +2 more
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Courage, cowardice, and Maher’s misstep [PDF]
Could a Nazi soldier or terrorist be courageous? The Courage Problem asks us to answer this sort of question, and then to explain why people are reluctant to give this answer.
Kyle, Brent G.
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AN ANALYSIS OF IMPLICATURES FOUND IN WHATSAPP STORIES
This study focuses on implicatures found in the WhatsApp stories. This study aims to find and explain types of implicatures found in WhatsApp stories using the theory proposed by Yule (1996).
Afiifah Al Rosyiidah
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How to make people do things with words
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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