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Telling People to Change Their Behaviour Through Implications: An Implicature Analysis on Covid-19 Public Service Announcements in Indonesia

open access: yesElsya, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction

open access: yesRevista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015
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
doaj   +1 more source

Verbalisation of an alternative academic position in totalitarian discourse

open access: yesМова: класичне, модерне, постмодерне, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

IMPLIKATUR PERCAKAPAN ANAK USIA 7 TAHUN DALAM KEGIATAN ANAK DAN ORANG TUA PADA KONTAK INTERPERSONAL

open access: yesSeBaSa
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
doaj   +1 more source

What are particularistic pejoratives?

open access: yesMind &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
wiley   +1 more source

Implicatures of modified numerals: quantity or quality? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +1 more source

Courage, cowardice, and Maher’s misstep [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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.
core   +1 more source

AN ANALYSIS OF IMPLICATURES FOUND IN WHATSAPP STORIES

open access: yesProsodi, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to make people do things with words

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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