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Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, French, & English: Language Contact & Creole Emergence through the Lens of Powerful Little Words

Études Créoles
Pragmatic markers (PMs) are multifunctional elements that allow language users to organize and coordinate discourse and to express their attitudes and cognitive states.
Joy P. G. Peltier
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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]

, 2010
In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
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Little words, big meaning – Ideational and pragmatic markers in fictional war discourse

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
War discourse has gained importance amid today’s global instability due to war-related trauma. Because war often involves trauma, its fictional representation may disrupt language coherence.
Serhii Zasiekin
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Pragmatic functions of lengthenings and filled pauses in the adult-directed speech of Hungarian children [PDF]

, 2013
Two most common disfluencies of spontaneous speech, vowel lengthenings (VLE) and non-lexicalized filled pauses (NLFP) were investigated in the adult-directed speech of eight Hungarian children.
Deme, Andrea
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The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2013
We present new evidence against a grammatical distinction between second and third person in Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT). More precisely, we show how pushing this distinction into the domain of pragmatics helps account for an otherwise ...
Abelin, Abelin, Boyd, Boyd, Bresnahan, Bresnahan, Derwing, Derwing, Doel, Doel, Emar Maier, Gonet, Gonet, Kees De Schepper, Lindemann, Lindemann, Lippi, Lippi, Mareuil, Mareuil, Martine Zwets, Missaglia, Missaglia, Munro, Munro, Müller, Müller, Rifkin, Rifkin, Said, Said, Schairer, Schairer, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra, Szpyra   +40 more
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Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Jason de Koff, James Muriuki, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa   +3 more
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PRAGMATIC POTENTIAL OF DISCOURSE MARKERS

Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2019
The present article aims to outline the pragmatic functions of discourse markers viewed as language items structuring discourse. This issue requires thorough research not only from the language theory viewpoint but from linguоdidactic, particularly pragmalinguоdidactic, viewpoint as well.
Svetlana V. Shustova, Natalia M. Tsarenko   +1 more
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]

, 2012
The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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Ini Apel Ni Nya ‘This Here Apple Now' Deictics in the Malay Speech of Southwest Malukan Migrants in the Netherlands1 [PDF]

, 2008
Dialek Melayu yang dipakai para pendatang asal Maluku Selatan di Belanda inimemperlihatkan rangkaian demonstrativa dan endofora yang tidak ditemukandalam bahasa Indonesia baku.
Engelenhoven, A. V. (Aone)
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