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Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and coastal Spanish [PDF]
Book synopsis: This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation ...
Placencia, Maria Elena
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A Pragmatic Study of Presupposition in Masoud Barzani’s Speech ahead of the Referendum
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]
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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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
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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SENTENCE ADVERBIALS AND EVIDENTIALITY [PDF]
The paper deals with expressions of evidence (originating in perception, inference or reported information) and their role in sentence/utterance pragmatic modification.
Hirschová, Milada
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The difference between Lexical Pragmatics and Lexical- Semantics
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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Lexical pragmatics and types of linguistic encoding: evidence from pre- and postpositions in Behdini-Kurdish [PDF]
Lexical pragmatics starts from the assumption that the meaning communicated by a word is underdetermined by its semantics, and lexical pragmatists usually study the processes involved in bridging the gap between the encoded and the communicated meaning ...
Unger, Christoph
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Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory [PDF]
The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent differences in social communication and interaction, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Language difficulties are common in autism and can affect multiple domains, including phonology, morphology ...
Dilber Kaçar Kütükçü +2 more
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Forms of encoded pragmatic meaning: semantic prosody. A lexicographic perspective.
– 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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