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LingBaWAdvancing the proposal that conversationalists frequently engage in humorous communication to convey propositional meanings, the paper aims to employ pragmatic inferential mechanisms specified in a relevance-theoretic framework in order to explicate the
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020 This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs.
Manuel Padilla Cruz
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The role of context and relevance in translating European Union texts
Вісник Київського національного лінгвістичного університету. Серія: Філологія, 2021 The article presents the nature and legitimacy of translation studies; it examines the function of a translator, its role during the translation process and the generated linguistic product from the point of view of cognitive pragmatics.
Ilona Lechner, Ilona Huszti
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Biblical Performance Criticism: Survey and Prospects
Religions, 2019 Biblical Performance Criticism (BPC) analyzes communication events of biblical traditions for audiences. Every communication event of a tradition has four aspects: a communicator, traditions re-expressed, an audience, and a social situation.
Peter S. Perry
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Le cinéma comme forme de communication floue
Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, 2016 Blurred communication, which lays on Sperber & Wilson’s Relevance Theory, requires us to attribute mental states to other people. In front of a movie, not only we have to imagine which kind of intentions has got the author (such an hypothesis is ...
Laurent Jullier
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Névtani Értesítő, 2015 The aim of this study is to present the problems that may be raised by the translation of proper names on different levels of context, and the methods with which translators can solve these issues.
Vermes, Albert
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Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis LingüísticsThis article focuses on the intensifying schematic construction [[adj1positive] [adj1comparative] [NP]] that is strongly related to headings, as our corpus analysis reveals. A characteristic of the construction is that, although it structurally exhibits
Sören Stumpf, Fabio Mollica
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REFERENCE THEORIES AND THE RELEVANCE OF DESCRIPTIONS [PDF]
Manuscrito, 2020 Abstract Mario Gómez-Torrente (2019) is a fundamental contribution to the issue of reference and especially of reference fixing. In this article I will focus on some questions addressed in it, especially on the relationships between some components of Kripke’s, Putnam’s and Gómez-Torrente’s theories of reference fixing as well as on the relevance of ...
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Placeholders in crosslinguistic perspective: abilities, preferences, and usage motives
LinguisticsIn spontaneous discourse, a speaker sometimes encounters word-formulation trouble, and she may use a ‘placeholder’ (PH) such as whatchamacallit and you-know-what, a dummy expression to be inserted into the slot of a ‘target form’ in the sentence ...
Seraku Tohru
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