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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Possessive Pronouns in Norms and Usage
Posvojne zamjenice služe za pojašnjenje pripada li nešto govornoj, sugovornoj ili negovornoj osobi te se definiraju prema licima. U dijelu rada u kojemu se raspravlja o teoriji pažnja je na početku posvećena vrstama riječi od kojih sve polazi, zatim ...
Bićanić, Petra
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Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2013 Signed languages display a variety of pointing signs that serve the functions of deictic and anaphoric pronouns, possessive and reflexive pronouns, demonstratives, locatives, determiners, body part labels, and verb agreement.
Richard P. Meier, Diane Lillo-Martin
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Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
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Grammatical properties of pronouns and their representation : an exposition [PDF]
, 2010 This volume brings together a cross-section of recent research on the grammar and representation of pronouns, centering around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing ...
Wiese, Heike, Simon, Horst J.
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Address Terms of Brotherhood in the Indian Online Gaming Community
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indian gamers are part of the Indian society as well as a globalised gaming community. To navigate this cultural dissonance, they can use address terms to reflect and create their double or divided identities. This article investigates forms and functions of kinship terms that are connected to the concept of brother ‘male sibling’, for example,
Linnea Garlepow
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Exploring authorial voice in English language medical journal abstracts in the age of AI
Language ValueAuthorial voice in medical journal abstracts has been widely studied; however, there is a clear research gap concerning how Hungarian authors place themselves in their English-language abstracts.
Katalin Doró
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Address between power and solidarity in audiovisual material in the case of Grey's Anatomy
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates cross‐linguistic variation in forms of address by examining the American prime‐time television series Grey's Anatomy, comparing the original English version and the German dubbing in season 1 (2005) and season 20 (2024).
Lisa‐Christine Altendorf
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Recent Diachronic Change in Affiliative Vocatives in British English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates recent diachronic change in affiliative address in spoken British English by comparing data from the demographic components of the BNC1994 and BNC2014. Using a systematically coded dataset of over 6000 vocative tokens, we analyze forms that signal solidarity and social closeness (including dude, bro, girl, dear, love ...
Mariam Gagua +4 more
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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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