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A Contrastive Study of Metadiscourse in English and Persian Editorials [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre.
Davud Kuhi, Manijeh Mojood
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Crossing the threshold: The sociolinguistic North/South divide in the US

open access: yesCorela
Many linguistic studies describe the diatopic variation of English in the US in a similar fashion, insofar as they almost consistently identify a specific dialect area in the Southern states.
Marc-Philippe Brunet
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Semantic Category of Otherness in American Military-Political Media Discourse

open access: yesСибСкрипт
Political discourse uses the category of otherness to legitimize the actions of the government and shape collective identity. The article examines the lexical representation of the semantic category of otherness in American socio-political media texts ...
Kseniya V. Kulakovskaya   +3 more
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Verbal Working Memory Is Related to the Acquisition of Cross-Linguistic Phonological Regularities

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Closely related languages share cross-linguistic phonological regularities, such as Frisian -âld [ͻ:t] and Dutch -oud [ʱut], as in the cognate pairs kâld [kͻ:t] – koud [kʱut] ‘cold’ and wâld [wͻ:t] – woud [wʱut] ‘forest’. Within Bybee’s (1995, 2001, 2008,
Evelyn Bosma   +7 more
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The linguistic representation of the other in colonial literature: the indian in 18th. Century Andean Bolivia

open access: yesEstudios de Teoría Literaria, 2019
The following essay explores the literary character of the Indio –as it appears in an entremés drafted in Potosí during the Eighteenth Century– in order to provide a comprehensive look at the linguistic representation of indigenous populations within ...
José Luis Ramírez Luengo   +1 more
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Do stereotypic tweets receive more retweets?

open access: yesJournal of Human Environmental Studies, 2016
Previous studies have revealed that stereotypic (vs. non-stereotypic) information about individuals spreads more easily among communicators in face-to-face communication.
Yuri Tanaka   +2 more
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Using fuzzy sets in determining the class of the car

open access: yesВісник Національного технічного університету "ХПÌ": Системний аналіз, управління та інформаційні технології, 2017
The article presents the stages of constructing a fuzzy inference system for selecting a class of a car. The procedures for collecting and processing the expert information necessary for constructing a system of fuzzy inference are described.
Ольга Игоревна Пронина   +1 more
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Consumer engagement with a brand on Facebook : linguistic category model analysis

open access: yes, 2020
Over the past years,social media has changed the way organizations promote business online and the use of digital technologies, such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter by brands to share product-related information, as well as to engage with consumer has grown significantly.
openaire   +1 more source

Manipulation Impact through Metaphors in Political Discourse

open access: yesRussian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2014
The article covers the metaphorical modeling in a political discourse as one of linguistic manipulation impact means. Political speech exercising a motivation function use symbols in order to link concepts which are not often even adjoined.
R I Zaripov
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Tracing Time's Threads: A Stylistic Analysis of Flashback and Foreshadowing in Betool Khedairi's Absent

open access: yesJournal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
When analyzing and evaluating literary texts, stylistic studies has adopted a certain approach. This study aims to investigate flashbacks and foreshadowing methods in which Betool Khedairi emphasizing in Absent.
Settar Jebbar Uloom
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