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Redistricting to maximize the preservation of political boundaries [PDF]
Social Science Research, 1983 Redefining legislative districts is a task undertaken by the states after each census in order to ensure equitable representation. Many criteria have been proposed as objectives in forming districts but specific definitions of an optimal plan have not been enforced.
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Maxims of Politeness in Cia Cia Language
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2016 This article is part of the research in language Ciacia. Language Ciacia as one of the local languages in Southeast Sulawesi, especially in Buton has equal status to the languages of other regions in Indonesia results showed that in the language of Ciacia are implementing maxim namely (1) maxim of wisdom or maxims adhili (2) generosity maxim or maxims ...
La Yani, La Ino
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Politeness Principles in “Murder On The Orient Express” Film: A Pragmatic Study
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy)This research examines the application of the principle of politeness in the film "Murder on the Orient Express" using a pragmatic approach. This study analyzes how each dialogue spoken by the characters in the film can be defined as part of the ...
Isma Nabila, Heri Heryono
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Diglosia, 2022 In the interactions carried out by traders and buyers in buying and selling transactions in the Kehewanan Traditional Market of Samarinda, some speeches violate the principle of politeness in language.
M. Alief Ramadhany +2 more
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Application of Politeness Strategies and Maxims in Fortress Besieged [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education, 2015 As a pervasive phenomenon in human communication, politeness has been one of the key issues discussed by pragmatists. Through the analysis of politeness strategies and maxims in Fortress Besieged by Chien Chung-shu, this thesis intends to show that people are likely to use vivid, pleasant and indirect expressions for something they think unpleasant or ...
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For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING‐BUT‐GENTLE academy
Area, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract This commentary interleaves autoethnographic reflections and qualitative data to develop two critical reflections on “gentleness” in contemporary spaces of academia and activism. First, somewhat autoethnographically, I question how normative styles of academic performance and self‐presentation often lead us to efface and devalue gentleness ...
John Horton
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The cooperative principle in political discourse: flouting Gricean maxims in Modern Standard Arabic political speeches [PDF]
Research result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2019 The purpose of this study is to investigate the universality of the Gricean theory of conversational Implicature and its application to the modern standard arabic on political ...
Al-Qaderi, I., Alduais, A.
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Mudra: Jurnal Seni Budaya, 2023 Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that examines the external meaning of an utterance that is interpreted by the listener. This study aimed to examine the Politeness Principles in the oral tradition of "jawab dilaman" of the Malay society in ...
Irma Suryani, Julisah Izar, Rengki Afria
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A pragmatic Analysis of Personal Metadiscourse and Politeness Principle across Genres: From Relevance to Adaptation [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2020 This study investigated personal metadiscourse units across genres. Based on Ädel’s (2006) taxonomy of the discourse functions of personal metadiscourse and Leech’s (2014) grand strategy of politeness, three spoken genres were compared in terms of the ...
Omid Allaf-Akbary +2 more
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Why Engineers Should Read More Novels
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.What do engineers do? And what should they work on? A surprising answer is outlined in this essay, which argues that reading novels holds the key for addressing both questions. Novels train the imagination as well as our ethical abilities – skills that are essential for developing future‐proof technologies.
Michael Kuhn
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