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Technology‐Enabled Sustainability: Behavior‐Based Carbon Footprint Levy in Hotels
ABSTRACT The paper explores the predisposition of domestic and international urban tourists of Athens, Greece, to pay an app‐calculated green levy based on the carbon footprint (CF) of their hotel stay. The study employs fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to explore the complex configurations between the effects of the sustainable hotel
Kyriaki Glyptou
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Modelling Discourse-related terminology in OntoLingAnnot’s ontologies [PDF]
Recently, computational linguists have shown great interest in discourse annotation in an attempt to capture the internal relations in texts. With this aim, we have formalized the linguistic knowledge associated to discourse into different linguistic ...
Aguado de Cea, G., Pareja-Lora, A.
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Cognitive scale-free networks as a model for intermittency in human natural language
We model certain features of human language complexity by means of advanced concepts borrowed from statistical mechanics. Using a time series approach, the diffusion entropy method (DE), we compute the complexity of an Italian corpus of newspapers and ...
Allegrini, Paolo +2 more
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The Role of Semiotic in Translating Symbols for Biblical Texts
Semiotics, which is the science of signs, has become an increasingly interesting interdisciplinary area of study. As such, semiotics can also be used as both structural and pragmatic approach for translation studies, especially for studies in which ...
Ni Made Diana Erfiani +2 more
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Abstract Silence can be a communicative act. Tanesini (2018) demonstrates how “eloquent” silences can virtuously indicate resistance and dissent; in this paper, I outline one way silence can also be used viciously to cause discursive harm, specifically by slurring victims. By distinguishing between eloquent and “signaling” silences (two kinds of what I
A. G. Holdier
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Abstract This paper presents the first systematic review and meta‐analysis on cross‐linguistic correlations between sign language and spoken/written language competences in bilingual d/Deaf learners. A total of 202 effect sizes were identified based on 70 independent samples that appeared in 52 studies from 1981 to 2023 (N = 3570).
Dongbo Zhang +3 more
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Morphological word structure in English and Swedish : the evidence from prosody [PDF]
Trubetzkoy's recognition of a delimitative function of phonology, serving to signal boundaries between morphological units, is expressed in terms of alignment constraints in Optimality Theory, where the relevant constraints require specific morphological
Raffelsiefen, Renate
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This article presents a project of methodologically applying and conceptually adjusting Goffman's frame analysis to studying visual social life: what is going on, and how, in the abundance of visual scenes that we increasingly navigate through in our everyday lives.
Eeva Luhtakallio
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Referential Cohesion, Ambiguity, Vagueness and Generality in Parliamentary Debate*
Abstract Political discourse has been characterised as being ‘vague’ and ‘ambiguous’. It is argued that politicians tend to use generic and unspecific words in order to avoid explicit commitment (McGee 2018). Although this situation may describe discourse genres such as political interviews and election debates, it is unclear that it can be applied to ...
Josep E. Ribera
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If-conditionals and Modality: Frequency patterns and theoretical explanations [PDF]
It has often been claimed that conditionals have a special relation to modality. This study tests this claim empirically by examining the frequency of modal marking in a number of conditional and non-conditional structures using a corpus-based approach ...
Adamson George W. +43 more
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