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EXPRESSION OF PRAGMATIC MEANING IN LEXICAL UNITS.

open access: yesTheoretical & Applied Science, 2021
Shavkatjon Abdurahmonov   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
wiley   +1 more source

Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Sweet as – The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
wiley   +1 more source

Pragmatic and Cognitive Constraints on Lexical-Constructional

open access: yes, 2009
This article explores the constraints that underlie the functioning of motion verbs expressing movement in a particular way (e.g. skulk, scamper). Our study has been carried out in accordance with the postulates of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), as put forward by Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal (2006).
Pérez Hernández, Lorena [0000-0001-6500-0157]   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: New trends in typical and atypical language acquisition. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Diez-Itza E   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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