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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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The topic of collocation has drawn attention for the past three decades in the lexical area of theoretical and applied linguistics. Our research team developed and evaluated a corpus-based assisted tool for collocation learning in Spanish.
Hui-Chuan Lu +2 more
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Intersections and differentiations: a corpus-assisted discourse study of gender representations in the British press before, during and after the London Olympics 2012 [PDF]
This study examines the impact of a global sports event on gender representations in media reporting. Whereas previous research on gender, sport and media has been mainly concerned with sports events in the North American or Australian context, this ...
Hunt, Sally, Jaworska, Sylvia
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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COLLOCATION PHRASES IN RELATION TO OTHER LEXICAL PHRASES IN CROATIAN
The paper analyzes the semantic and lexicological aspects of collocation phrases in Croatian with tendency to separate them from other lexical phrases in Croatian (terms, idioms, names).
Goranka Blagus Bartolec
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PARALLEL CORPUS OF TEXTS: THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND LEXICOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES
The article deals with theoretical and methodological aspects of processing two or more texts from the corpus translation, indicates a positive lexicographical level of parallel corpus translation (text enrichment stable phrases, idioms, specification ...
Ю. І. Дем’янчук
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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SYNTAGMATIC LEXICAL RELATIONS IN THE TEXTBOOK “LET’S LEARN SERBIAN 2” (LEXICOLOGICAL ASPECT)
Since language is actualized through lexical compounds, this research focused on the rules according to which the relations between lexical compounds are based.
Драгана С. Симеуновић
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