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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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This paper presents the results of the analysis of texts and comments on the texts about poverty and social exclusion on the on-line edition B92 from the perspective of Grice’s principle of cooperation and Leech’s principle of politeness.
Dubravka Valić Nedeljković
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons
ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Pragmatics: Mapping Evidence on Enhancing Children's Use of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Capacities for Interactive Communication. [PDF]
Alduais A+3 more
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Investigating the Politeness Strategies and Politeness Maxims in Five Surahs from the Holy Qur'an
The present study aimedatinvestigating the politeness strategies of Brown and Levinson (1978) and politeness maxim of Leech (1983) used by Allah, Prophets, and humans in five Surahs in the Holy Quran. In the data analysis, it is found that 1) the characters used five maxims in their communication to each other and six positive politeness strategies and
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ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk+1 more
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Abstract This article charts the Council of Nicaea's (325) relevance to the Anglican Tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day, as manifested through Anglicanism's engagement with the Nicene Creed, its attitude towards early ecumenical councils, its appeals to ‘the Fathers’ and its approach to ‘tradition’, particularly in relation to ...
E. S. Kempson
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Self‐Deception in Human–AI Emotional Relations
ABSTRACT Imagine a man chatting with his AI girlfriend app. He looks at his smartphone and says, ‘Finally, I'm being understood’. Is he deceiving himself? Is there anything morally wrong with it? The human tendency to anthropomorphize AI is well established, and the popularity of AI companions is growing.
Emilia Kaczmarek
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Nowadays, the study of human communication is of great importance in linguistics and psychology. In order to achieve smooth and conflict-free interaction it is necessary not only to respect the rules of politeness, but also to take into account the ...
Gulnara F Gizatova
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The Pragmatics of Obscuring in Political Philosophy
ABSTRACT According to the obscuring objection against mainstream political philosophy, there has been a long‐standing dominant research paradigm focusing on distributive justice. This has made it difficult to call attention to important social facts, such as discrimination and oppression.
Stina Björkholm, Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis
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