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Pragmatic Development

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2018
A foundational feature of human communication lies in the fact that what a speaker means often goes beyond the literal meaning of what the speaker says.
A. Papafragou
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Upper Cervical Cord Area as a Biomarker of Conversion to Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study assessed whether upper cervical cord area (UCCA) measured on routine brain MRI can serve as a biomarker of conversion to SPMS. Methods This is a single‐center retrospective cohort study of RRMS patients with cross‐sectional and longitudinal analyses of clinical and MRI data. Future SPMS converters were matched by age, sex,
Nabil K. El Ayoubi, Sola Al Ghazal, Salem Hannoun, Medhat A. Siddik, Nour M. Najjar, Jim Dagher, Joseph Abboud, Myriam G. Semaan, Samia J. Khoury   +8 more
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Validation of the cancer fatigue scale (CFS) in a UK population

BMC Cancer
Background Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in patients with cancer. Fatigue reduces health-related quality of life. The Cancer Fatigue Scale (CFS) is a brief instrument that captures the multidimensional nature of fatigue with ...
C. Robinson, G. Feder, AL Huntley, J. Ramsay, D. Varsani, D. Gangahar, M. Kröz   +6 more
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L2 pragmatics as ‘intercultural pragmatics’: Probing sociopragmatic aspects of pragmatic awareness

Journal of Pragmatics, 2019
One of the important ‘current issues in intercultural pragmatics’ is how conceptual, theoretical, and empirical developments in this field can be used to help reconstitute the teaching and learning of second languages as an intercultural endeavor.
Troy McConachy
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The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Allele rs10191329A and Cognitive Function: A UK Biobank Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The genome‐wide association study of Multiple Sclerosis severity linked the genetic variant rs10191329A to long‐term disability and implicated brain resilience as a determinant of outcome. We hypothesised that rs10191329A might influence cognition in other neurological diseases and healthy controls.
Ioanna Zimianiti, Sheena Waters, Adil Harroud, Pernilla Stridh, Ruth Dobson, Benjamin M. Jacobs   +5 more
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Urine-based assays for inpatients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in rural South Africa

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
Background: Accurate non-sputum-based tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics are urgently needed to improve diagnostic yield and patient outcomes. Objectives: To compare the diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic yield of Urine Xpert Ultra (Urine-XPU) and Urine ...
Mbulelo Mntonintshi, Bianca Sossen, Hloni Bookholane, Aimee Lifson, Lisa Africa, René Goliath, Nicola Wearne, Andy Parrish, Graeme Meintjes   +8 more
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SPECIFICITIES OF THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF CONTEXT AND ASSESSMENT IN FRENCH EVALUATIVE UTTERANCES

Novìtnâ Osvìta, 2019
The paper is focused on the study of the interconnection of context and evaluative utterances in French. The assessment of different aspects of the world is viewed as a considerable part of human cognitive activities.
Halyna Moroshkina
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Higher Education, Management Control and the Everyday Academic [PDF]

, 2023
This is the final version. Available on open access from the Journal of Pragmatic Constructivism via the link in this recordThis contribution to the Festskrift for Hanne Norreklit examines how the use of management controls by senior management of ...
Burns, J, Jollands, S
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Advancing Stroke Clinical Trials Using Community Engagement and Implementation Science Approaches

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stroke clinical trials are essential for advancing stroke care but can face challenges with recruitment, retention, clinical relevance, and translation into real‐world practice. We propose that integrating community engagement and implementation science approaches into stroke trials can help address these needs.
Lesli E. Skolarus, Devin L. Brown, Bernadette Boden‐Albala   +2 more
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Pragmatics for argumentation

Journal of Pragmatics, 2023
The relationship between argumentation and language has recently attracted a great deal of attention through various publications in the field of argumentation studies (see e.g., Boogaart et al., 2021; Hinton, 2021; Oswald et al., 2018; Oswald et al., 2020). In this paper I propose a historical overview of this relationship by narrowing the scope of my
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