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Ostensive definition in vocabulary teaching
Journal of Child Language, 1980ABSTRACTOstensive definitions of words are ambiguous as to their referent. In a study of 40 mother–infant dyads engaged in looking at picture-books, it was found that 95% of ostensive definitions referred to the whole object depicted, rather than to its parts, attributes or actions.
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On the Borders of the Ostensive
2018This chapter studies uses of blushing as emotional expression both independently and in combination with the scalar expression almost in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. Introducing the notion of ‘emotional vigilance’, it argues that uses of involuntary emotional expression play an essential role in the communicative effect of the novel and are ...
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Genuine or ostensible politeness?
Journal of Historical PragmaticsAbstract This study examines the use of qingwen (an honorific request marker) across three different historical periods in China and unravels the evolved relationship between qingwen -initiated directives of
Xu Huang, Yongping Ran
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The Varieties of Ostensive Experience
2023This chapter establishes the conceptual groundwork for understanding legend trips. In doing so, it outlines how legends can become reality through ostension: influencing people’s behaviors and society itself. It first introduces “ostension” as a framework through which to understand legend trips and then examines the various forms ostension takes ...
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Meaning, Expectations and Ostension: Contrastive Stress in English
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2021Kate Scott
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The pragmatics of ostensive discourse: arguments from ostension
Factual claims in legal cases are typically supported by ostensive acts showing evidence to the factfinders. In these contexts, ostension is not performed for definitional or conceptual purposes, as “ostensive definitions” are, but for probatory ones. The litigated facts can be proven by presenting evidence that supports the relevant claims.openaire +1 more source
2019
Abstract Chapter 4 presents the thesis of the racialization of class, arguing that racial understandings are deeply interconnected to class principles. The analysis starts by showing how despite the assumption that mestizaje eradicated all racial ideas, people employ a wide range of racialized notions in everyday interactions. Second, it
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Abstract Chapter 4 presents the thesis of the racialization of class, arguing that racial understandings are deeply interconnected to class principles. The analysis starts by showing how despite the assumption that mestizaje eradicated all racial ideas, people employ a wide range of racialized notions in everyday interactions. Second, it
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