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Lidando com piadas na aula de ESL: uma proposta pedagógica centrada na compreensão [PDF]
, 2019 This paper makes a pedagogical proposal to delve into jokes in the ESL classroom and sensitise learners to their complexity. It consists of five instructional phases and is based, on the one hand, on another proposal to teach the pragmatics of speech ...
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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La reduplicación léxica en español: origen, presencia, interpretación
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2019 On this occasion we will try to approach a topic that is not mentioned in the grammars, despite being quite frequent in the Spanish language, especially in its colloquial variety: that of the lexical reduplication type café café or guapo guapo.
Ewa Stala
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On some problems of meaning - polysemy between sense enumeration and core meaning paradigms [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2014 Polysemy is a semantic phenomenon which occurs when one lexical item has more meanings which can be seen as related to each other. It is to be distinguished from the other extreme pole of ambiguity, homonymy, which occurs when two or more ...
Dobrić Nikola
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The Relevance-Based Model of Context in Processing Puns [PDF]
, 2012 While the essential role context plays in the understanding of expressions and utterances has never been questioned, the way it is perceived has evolved from a static factor established prior to the process of utterance interpretation, indeed a ...
Solska, Agnieszka
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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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Word meaning and lexical pragmatics [PDF]
Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2004 In spite of their differences, Two-level Conceptual Semantics, Generative Lexicon Theory and Relevance Theory also have similarities with respect to treatment of the relation of word meanings and contexts. Therefore, the three theories can be considered as complementing each other in analysing word meanings in utterances.
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Lexical Concept Adjustment in Mechanical Engineering Discourse
Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, 2019 The lexical concept adjustment represents a significant aspect of the pragmatic meaning and has been approached from several perspectives in literature. As the semantics-pragmatics interface is a matter that attracts numerous debates among pragmaticians,
Jekaterina Čerņevska
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Questioning and responding in Italian [PDF]
, 2010 Questions are design problems for both the questioner and the addressee. They must be produced as recognizable objects and must be comprehended by taking into account the context in which they occur and the local situated interests of the participants ...
Rossano, F.
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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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