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Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience
Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf +9 more
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Journal of Applied Studies in Language, 2018 This study aims to find out how a comic establishes strategy through presupposition in contributing to building a humour effect in stand-up comedy. A qualitative descriptive method was employed in this research to get full and depth conception.
Faisal Fahdian Puksi
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An inferential articulation of metaphorical assertions [PDF]
, 2019 This paper argues for the view that metaphors are assertions by locating metaphor within our social discursive practices of asserting and inferring. The literal and the metaphorical differ not in the stating of facts nor in the representation of states ...
Kwesi, Richmond
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina +6 more
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Negation and presupposition, truth and falsity
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 There are many kinds of negation and denial. Perhaps the most common is the Boolean negation not that applies to propositions-in-extension, i.e. truth-values.
Duží Marie
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the use of environmental disclosure as a strategic tool to manage legitimacy crises in a mining company, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the main methodology. Focusing on a case of environmental disaster, this research reveals how corporate narratives can be manipulated to minimize responsibility and reinforce
Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni +1 more
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تحلیل لمطلقات الافتراض المسبق في نصوص صحفیة انكلیزیة
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 The notion of presupposition and its triggers have been studied by many scholars, linguists and philosophers, but as far as the researcher knows, the investigation of presupposition triggers in journalistic texts has not been explored yet.
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Journal of Language and Education, 2016 This paper studies the pragmalinguistic markers of the political discourse in American presidents’ inaugural addresses made from 1913 to 2013 and concentrates on the language units that reveal the potential of perlocutionary speech acts.
Anna Gabets, Arnau Barios Gené
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Truth‐telling in the Australian Curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Unlike Canada and South Africa, Australia has not completed a national Truth‐telling of First Nations histories. As a consequence, the curriculum is at risk of excluding Truth‐telling, leading to indoctrination of past injustices as part of school learning.
Glenn Auld +29 more
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A set of semantic and pragmatic criteria for descriptive vs. metalinguistic negation
Glossa, 2018 This article is about metalinguistic negation and the types of criteria making a straightforward distinction between descriptive (DN) and metalinguistic negation (MN). First, I will distinguish three types of negation: one type of DN and two types of MN,
Jacques Moeschler
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