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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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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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On the nature of the lexicon: The status of rich lexical meanings
Journal of Linguistics, 2020 Both in linguistics and in psycholinguistics there is some debate about how rich or thin lexico-semantic representations are. Traditionally, in formal semantics but also in philosophy of language as well as in cognitive pragmatics, lexical meanings have ...
L. Hogeweg, Agustín Vicente
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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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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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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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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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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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The Lexical Pragmatics of Reflexive Marking
LanguageIn French, the members of a subclass of anticausative verbs are optionally marked with the clitic se, traditionally considered to be a reflexive marker. We show that this optionality is not a case of free variation. Rather, the presence or absence of se
Martin, Fabienne +2 more
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On ad hoc concept construction and impoliteness mitigation: evidence from Jordanian Arabic
Open LinguisticsThis study examines how ad hoc concept construction mitigates impoliteness in Jordanian Arabic. Drawing on Relevance Theory and lexical pragmatics, it analyzes how hearers pragmatically adjust conventionalized expressions in face-threatening contexts to ...
Khalifah Lama Ahmed +2 more
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