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Pragmatic functions and lexical categories
Linguistics, 2010 Much recent work has argued that the major lexical categories can be distinguished in terms of pragmatic functions (e.g., Baker 2003; Bhat 1994; Croft 2001; Hengeveld 1992). Typically, such pragmatic accounts argue that nouns distinguish themselves by referring, verbs distinguish themselves by predicating and adjectives distinguish themselves by ...
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates stakeholder perspectives on mobilising private‐sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia, emphasising Hong Kong's role as a financial intermediary. Through semi‐structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, insurers, and project developers, we employed a grounded ...
Laurence L. Delina +4 more
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
, 2018 This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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On Encoded Lexical Meaning: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012 The past few years have seen quite a bit of speculation over relevance theorists’ commitment to Fodorian semantics as a means to account for the notion of encoded lexical meaning that they put forth in their framework. In this paper, I take on the issue,
Stavros Assimakopoulos
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Lexical pragmatics and types of linguistic encoding: evidence from pre- and postpositions in Behdini-Kurdish [PDF]
, 2005 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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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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Lexical dynamism in social networks: Contributions to Lexicography
Calidoscópio, 2018 This paper proposes a reflection on the (internal and external) lexical dynamism, including social networks, in order to discuss its contributions to Lexicography, as the lexicon of a language system is supported by its constant evolution.
Fábio Henrique de Carvalho Bertonha +1 more
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Interlocutors-Related and Hearer-Specific Causes of Misunderstanding: Processing Strategy, Confirmation Bias and Weak Vigilance [PDF]
, 2017 Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate inferences, cognitive overload, non-shared knowledge, topic organisation or focusing problems, among others, may cause ...
Cruz, Manuel Padilla
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