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Az eszköz–alany váltakozás lexikai pragmatikai keretben [Instrument–subject alternation in a lexical pragmatic framework] [PDF]
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2017 The instrument–subject alternation is a cross-linguistic phenomenon in which a verb’s semantic argument with an instrument thematic role can be expressed syntactically not only as an adverbial phrase but also as a subject instead of an agentive subject ...
Bibok, Károly
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French Loanwords in Canadian English: A Usage-Based Approach
Anglophonia, 2019 This paper focuses on the semantic evolution of French loanwords adopted into Canadian English from the seventeenth century onwards. Our lexical database of Canadianisms of French origin, extracted from historical dictionaries and works on contemporary ...
Julie Rouaud
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The adjective “unique”: More than a buzzword in the language of advertising [PDF]
Ibérica, 2021 This paper examines the role of the adjective “unique” in car manufacturers’ websites. The presence of adjectives is generally acknowledged to be a significant feature of advertising texts; however, analyses often focus on issues relating to the ...
Marisa Díez-Arroyo
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A Pragmatic Study of Presupposition in Masoud Barzani’s Speech ahead of the Referendum
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021 The lexical presupposition is one of the primary concepts of pragmatics, and it is used to include a general class of pragmatic and semantic phenomena that have a fundamental impact on the apprehension of utterances.
Hero Hassan Sadiq +1 more
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Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2016 This essay examines language change and linguistic creativity as revealed by remodelling, especially as a source for euphemisms and euphemistic dysphemisms and as a function of verbal play. Within the scope of this essay, there are predominantly two ways in which novel terms and expressions are created leading to language change: formally through ...
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The difference between Lexical Pragmatics and Lexical- Semantics
Halabja University Journal, 2020 هذا البحث الّذي يحمل عُنوان (الفرق بين التَّداوليَّة المُعجميَّة وعلم الدّلالة المُعجميّ) مُحاولة لوصف التَّداوليَّة المعجميَّة مُتعلّقةً بتغيير المعنى، مع توضيح الفرضيَّة المعجميَّة، هذا من ناحية، ومن ناحية أخرى حُدِّد خط الاختلاف بين علم الدّلالة المعجميّ والتَّداوليَّة المعجميَّة.
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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs.
Manuel Padilla Cruz
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.This review redefines the carotid bulb (CB) as a variable geometric dilation shaped by hemodynamics and the carotid sinus (CS) as a conserved neurohistological baroreceptor field. Distinguishing these entities clarifies a century of anatomical confusion and links geometry, neurohistology, and clinical interpretation within a unified framework ...
Răzvan Costin Tudose +2 more
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Forms of encoded pragmatic meaning: semantic prosody. A lexicographic perspective.
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2014 – The present paper focuses on ways in which the pragmatic (functional) meaning that arises from various contextual features, known in corpus linguistics as semantic prosody (Sinclair 1996, 2004; Louw 1993, etc.) can become an integral part of ...
Mojca Šorli
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2023 The article deals with the discursive construction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the English-language media discourse. Corpus methods establish semantic, figurative-perceptual and axiological specificity in the media representation of AI in various
Larisa A. Kochetova
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