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Indonesian Interrogative Sentences: a Study of Forms and Functions [PDF]

, 2016
This study examines Indonesian interrogative sentence problems by focusing on issues of forms and functions. The data used in this analysis are interrogative sentences in Indonesian language that are currently used in oral and in interethnic ...
Lindawati, L. (Lindawati)
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

From Contested Endogenization to Regulatory Unravelling of Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: Extending the Endogeneity of Law Framework

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on the endogeneity of law framework, this study examines how business, legal, public, and civil society actors constructed the meaning and practice of mandatory human rights due diligence in the context of the German garment industry and the German Supply Chain Act.
Nora Lohmeyer, Elke Schüßler, Sarah Ashwin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"How do you think it should be done?" About the thematic-rematic structure of a certain type of interrogative sentences [PDF]

, 2016
The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the thematic-rematic structure of Polish equivalents of interrogative sentences such as What do you think he had done?, namely of questions about some component of subordinate clause.
Wójcicka, Alicja
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Learnability of clause-embedding predicates (p-to-Q distributivity)

, 2020
Some clause-embedding predicates like English "know" and "guess" can take both declarative and interrogative clausal complements. It has been hypothesised in the formal semantic literature that the meanings of these predicates when they take a ...
Wataru Uegaki, Jennifer Culbertson
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Explicating Choice of MTN® Advertising Frameworks in Nigerian Print Media

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020
The meaning that a communicator intends to make determines the choice of the lexemes that the individual employs. Thus, this study explored the textual choices of MTN advertisements; as such entities were utilised to generate meaning potential.
Taofeek O Dalamu, Ogunlusi Gbenga
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability in Government Use of AI: Citizen Concerns and Preferences

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government adoption of AI opens the “pandora's box” of accountability, a core aspect of public value. Despite the centrality of governmental AI accountability, citizens' concerns and preferences in holding governments accountable for AI usage remain poorly understood.
Naikang Feng, Yanto Chandra
wiley   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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