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Prototipicality in entries of school dictionaries
Signo, 2015 Theoretical Lexicography is the discipline which, in a general way, studies and criticizes the dictionaries. It is open to the theoretical contribution from other fields of research, such as Text Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Multimodality, once they may ...
Everton Castro de Almeida +1 more
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Investigating Communication Support Strategies as 'Micro-Interventions': A Conceptual-Methodological Framework Applying Realist Evaluation and Relevance Theory. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Background Communication Partner Training is widely applied in speech and language therapy practice, premised on the idea that communication support strategies can optimise conversations involving persons with communication disabilities.
Jagoe C, Conica M, Wharton T, Zakaria M.
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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CrossroadsThe paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse.
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Cuadernos de Turismo, 2018 This article is focused on the language of tourism as a means of economic potential. Language in tourism, especially language of promotional texts, motivates and attracts tourists to visit a certain destination, and, consequently, makes profits.
Jasna Potočnik Topler
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Contested Memories in Stone: The Memorial Landscape of Waterloo Battlefield
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article examines the Waterloo battlefield as a spatially contested memorial landscape shaped by competing national and transnational narratives. Through GIS mapping and inscription analysis, it demonstrates how spatial arrangements and commemorative rhetoric reproduce different narratives while enabling grassroots actors ...
Bowen Chai
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DISCOURSE WORLD AS PROJECTIVE MACROREALITY IN BRITISH ADVERTISING: COGNITIVE-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 Advertising discourse is analyzed from projectivity perspective: with regard to the construction of the global discourse meaning known as “discourse world” as mental macroreality exposed to marketing laws.
S. L. Kushneruk
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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
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The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2017 This paper investigates a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g., shoot a rabbit /eat rabbit /wear rabbit ). Computational semantic approaches have traditionally analysed such sense alternations as being generated by an inventory of ...
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