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Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun "one"

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceIn this paper we investigate the uses of personal pronoun one. Our study is based on 604 occurrences of personal pronoun one; 263 of those were extracted from the British National Corpus and the rest from other sources.First of all ...
Mignot, Elise
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When money isn't everything: Identifying stage‐based patterns of entrepreneurial resource acquisition

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Structure Affects the Resolution of the Subject Pronouns Er and Der in Spoken German Discourse

open access: yesDiscours, 2013
Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments were designed to investigate the resolution of ambiguous German pronouns, the personal pronoun (er) and the d-pronoun (der) in spoken discourse.
Miriam Ellert
doaj   +1 more source

The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CLASSIFICATION OF THE INDEPENDENT PERSONAL PRONOUN IN THE QUR\u27ĀN

open access: yes, 1970
The independent personal pronoun or, in Arabic, aḍ-ḍamīr al-munfaṣil, appears in verbal sentences and in nominal sentences, where it functions as the grammatical subject of the sentence or as pronominal copula.
Dror, Yehudit
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Nous et je : énonciation et argumentation dans le discours de Simone Veil sur la dépénalisation de l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (26 novembre 1974) [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences
This paper analyses the power of enunciation through personal pronouns regarding the speech Simone Veil brought before the National Assembly that opened the debate on the decriminalization of abortion (November 26th 1974).
Casalone Myriam
doaj   +1 more source

Dysphemism Of Personal Pronoun Among Men's Character In Hiromasa Okushima's Comic Akira No 2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In Japanese, especially in informal situations, men tend to change words that are subtle or ordinary with more harsh words. This phenomenon called dysphemism.
Pujiono, Mhd.; Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Sumatera Utara   +2 more
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Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

“Why Can't They Just Stay?” A Critical Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis of Racial Neoliberalism in English Language Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing and Evaluating a Measure of Lexical Diversity Across Word Classes

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lexical diversity (LD) has been shown to be a strong predictor of second language (L2) proficiency. However, most current indices combine all word classes into a single measure and thus only capture the broadest patterns of lexical variation.
Taehyeong Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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