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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 +1 more
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Cross-cultural pragmatic failure [PDF]
This paper explores the study of failures in intercultural communication due to misunderstandings in the linguistic field of pragmatics. It focuses on three areas of pragmatics; compliments, refusals and complaints and examines how cultural ...
Peter McGee
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Metaphorical COVID-19 Concepts: A Corpus Pragmatics Study
This paper investigates the way pragmatics and corpus linguistics can benefit from each other through tackling metaphorical language. The metaphors of COVID-19 and how they can be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitively in the realm of corpus ...
Shameem Alsalami
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Pragmatics is a topic that intersects many social science fields including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and communication. This entry defines pragmatics and outlines approaches to its study, including some key contributors to ...
Robert T. Craig (17950815) +1 more
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The Pragmatics of Word Meaning [PDF]
In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. Linguistic processing is nformationally encapsulated and utilises relatively simple \u27taxonomic\u27 lexical semantic knowledge.
Copestake, Ann, Lascarides, Alex
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An Analysis of Igbo Proverbs and Idioms
This paper looks at Igbo proverbs and idioms in the light of the existing linguistic theories. It tries to show that application of the current linguistic theories in the interpretation of Igbo proverbs and idioms will be futile without a consideration ...
Okolo, Bertram A.
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UNIVERSAL PRAGMATICS: MEMPERTIMBANGKAN HABERMAS DALAM PENELITIAN LINGUISTIK
: The aim of this writing was to describe the Habermas theoretical dimension named the universal pragmatics and its contribution in linguistic-especially, critical linguistic-research. In this research, this writer used the library research concerning to
Makyun Subuki
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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SPAHNONYMIC VOCABULARY IN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS: LINGUOPRAGMATIC ASPECT
Purpose. The article is devoted to the identification, description and analysis of phraseological units containing names of the internal organs of a person.
Natalya Viktorovna Nemchinova
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This volume presents a theoretical and practical approach to the teaching of pragmatics in primary and secondary educational contexts. Targeting first language (L1), second language (L2), and foreign language (FL) teachers, the volume starts by ...
Sara Gesuato
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