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Reporting Someone Else’s Speech: The Use of the Optative and Accusative-and-Infinitive as Reportative Markers in Herodotus’ Histories

Open Library of Humanities, 2018
This article provides a pragma-semantic account of the oblique optative and accusative-and-infinitive in Ancient Greek. The proposed account analyses certain seemingly anomalous uses as special cases of a general meaning.
Corien Bary
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Presupposition Triggers in Editorials of the Jakarta Post

LINGUISTIK TERAPAN, 2016
The objectives of the study were to find out: (1) the realization of presupposition triggers in editorials of The Jakarta Post (2) the reasons for using presupposition triggers. The study was descriptive qualitative. The source of data was The Jakarta Post online website.
Fitriani, Eka Surya, Murni, Sri Minda
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures

Glossa, 2018
We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information (i.e., are nontrivial).
Christina Zlogar, Kathryn Davidson
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic triggers of presupposition in spoken discourse [PDF]

, 2019
Предмет ове студије је испитивање пресупозиције из формално- функционалне теоријске перспективе, која подразумева однос између лексичко- граматичке структуре реченице и дискурсног (језичког/ванјезичког) контекста. На основу спорних тачака у савременој
Knjižar, Ivan
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Analysis of Presupposition Triggers Found in the Utterances Produced by James Bond Character in Dr. No Movie [PDF]

, 2014
Keywords: Presupposition, Presupposition Triggers, MovieThis study is about presupposition on utterances of James Bond character in Dr. No movie. There is one problem to be solved the study, namely: What are the triggers of presuppositions of the main ...
PRASTYA, D. (DAVIT), Prastya, Davit
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Presupposition and it’s relation to Entailment, Conversational Implicature and Iqtidā

قضايا لغوية
This study focuses on presupposition, a linguistic phenomenon that holds utmost importance in communication. In addition, it analyses three other linguistic phenomena that are closely related to presupposition:entailment, conversational implicature ...
IBRAHIM ABDULLAH SULAIMAN
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