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Metaphors' journeys across time and genre: tracking the evolution of literary metaphors with temporal embeddings

Frontiers in Language Sciences
Metaphors are a distinctive feature of literary language, yet they remain less studied experimentally than everyday metaphors. Moreover, previous psycholinguistic and computational approaches overlooked the temporal dimension, although many literary ...
Veronica Mangiaterra, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini   +3 more
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The teaching of pragmatics by native and nonnative language teachers: What they know and what they report doing

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
The paper focuses on how nonnative teachers of a target language (NNTs) deal with pragmatics in their classes. It starts with a discussion of what pragmatics entails.
Andrew D. Cohen
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Sequence, gaze, and modal semantics: modal verb selection in German permission inquiries

Linguistics
Two modal verbs of German are regularly used to express deontic possibility: können (‘can’) and dürfen (‘may’). We examine how speakers select between them, focusing on modal inquiries for permission to carry out some action (darf/kann ich das machen ...
Zinken Jörg, Mack Christina
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Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Much of the work in experimental pragmatics is devoted to testing empirical hypotheses that arise within the study of linguistic and philosophical pragmatics.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
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Pragmatics Avoidance in Second Language Learning: Kurdish language as an Example

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021
This paper is entitled Pragmatics Avoidance in Second Language Learning: Kurdish language as an example. This study is concerned with the Point that when a foreign language learner learns Kurdish Language, first s/he learns and controls the sematic ...
Shakhawan Jalal Haji Faraj , Aso Abdulrahman Karim   +1 more
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Request for confirmation sequences in German

Open Linguistics
In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative analysis of 200 RfCs and their responses in German conversations to ...
Deppermann Arnulf, Gubina Alexandra, König Katharina, Pfeiffer Martin   +3 more
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Recognizing Communicative Intentions Lies at the Heart of Irony Processing; and Bilinguals Might do it Better: A Literature Review

Psychology of Language and Communication
Bilinguals perform better in interpreting intentions, the pillar of irony comprehension. As bilingualism becomes normal, exploring the role of the second language (L2) in irony comprehension seems invaluable. Evidence suggests that L2 proficiency impacts
Chełminiak Paweł
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TimeGPT’s Potential in Cryptocurrency Forecasting: Efficiency, Accuracy, and Economic Value

Forecasting
Accurate and efficient cryptocurrency price prediction is vital for investors in the volatile crypto market. This study comprehensively evaluates nine models—including baseline, zero-shot, and deep learning architectures—on 21 major cryptocurrencies ...
Minxing Wang, Pavel Braslavski, Dmitry I. Ignatov   +2 more
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Review of New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics

Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The volume is edited in honor of Andrew D. Cohen, who is a preeminent and leading scholar in applied linguistics and has made great contributions to pragmatics in second language contexts. In particular, chapters in this volume address Cohen’s legacy in
Xi Li, Liu Yang, Qiao Huang
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Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis

Scientific Reports
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety in life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance of considering the patient’s subjective experience.
Cristiano Nichini, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Biagio Scalingi, Eleonora Alecci, Luca Toschi, Simone Cavallotti, Anna Chiara Cigognini, Federico Durbano, Silvia Ferraris, Patrizia Santinon, Chiara Pompei, Federico Frau, Veronica Mangiaterra, Luca Bischetti, Marta Bosia, Gianluca Peschi, Pierluigi Politi, Valentina Bambini   +17 more
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