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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2016 This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
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A Pragmatic Study of Aggression in Some English Comic Strips
آداب الكوفة, 2021 Aggression can be detected in speakers' language for many purposes such as criticism, refusal, delivering unpleasant messages or even solidarity among people. To cover the disagreeable consequences of such aggressions, speakers usually utilize humour as
Ahmed Mubarak, Sundus Allawi, MA
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CLAUSAL SUBSTITUTION IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN [PDF]
Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2020 The article focuses on the ways and mechanisms clausal substitution in English works, thoroughly analysing said cohesive relation along with some of its most typical instances.
Snejana Obeyd
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The L2 Acquisition of French Interrogatives: Pragmatic Inferences in Clefted wh-Questions
Languages, 2021 The present study aims to elaborate on the understanding of the second language (L2) acquisition of French interrogatives by focusing on clefted (subject) wh-questions, structures that are largely absent in prior L2 literature.
Emilie Destruel, Bryan Donaldson
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PRESUPPOSITION IN THE JAKARTA POSTS POLITICAL ARTICLES: A PRAGMATICS APPROACH
Indonesian EFL Journal, 2015 This study is aimed to investigate presupposition in The Jakarta Post daily newspapers articles in political column. It covers two problems: types of presupposition and triggers of presupposition. Those problems were identified by applying presupposition
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly, Ayu Putri Kurnia
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Distinguishing Entailment and Presupposition Under Negation Test
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2016 Distinguishing entailment from presupposition is quite difficult because their semanticrelation seems to be similar. Both entailment and presupposition have an automaticrelationship based on the context.
Gatri Asti Putri Indarti
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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing the addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion is the goal of speakers and the force of the speaker's commitment as indicated in the utterance is an important ...
Anne Reboul
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Iperstoria, 2021 The study investigates the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on institutional tourism communication. In view of the necessary changes occurred in the tourism field since the start of the pandemic, a comparison will be made with the results of a previous ...
Daniela Cesiri
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PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ORAL NEWS AND WRITTEN ONLINE NEWS DISCOURSE
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy), 2017 Information becomes a crucial thing that someone gets in everyday terms. Dealing with the digital era, people can get the information through any communication devices. Then, language still has its own rule in communication.
Luthfiyatun Thoyyibah
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Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent.
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