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Words in Motion: Slurs in Indirect Report
Gestalt Theory, 2021 Slurs are pejorative epithets that express negative attitudes toward a class of individuals sharing the same race, country of origin, sexual orientation, religion, and the like.
Tenchini Maria Paola
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Reported Speech in Greek Tragedy [PDF]
Illinois Classical Studies, 2020 Abstract This article examines reported direct speech embedded in narrative sections of Greek tragedy, analyzing the content of reported speeches, their metrical form, and the descriptions of their sound. Reported direct speech is revealed to be considerably restrained, even when it occurs in highly emotional contexts.
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Managing Participation through Modal Affordances on Twitter
Open Library of Humanities, 2015 On Twitter, retweets function as a method of reporting speech and spreading the talk of other users. We propose that changes to the interface and mechanisms of Twitter have led to the coexistence of two complementary forms of retweeting.
Fawn Draucker, Lauren B. Collister
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Gesture and speech integration: an exploratory study of a man with aphasia [PDF]
, 2009 Background: In order to fully comprehend a speaker’s intention in everyday communication, we integrate information from multiple sources including gesture and speech.
Cocks, N. +4 more
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E-REA, 2019 This article aims at studying in what ways the three major types of reported speech, namely direct speech, free indirect speech and indirect speech, give a more or less lifelike representation of the characters' thought in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day,
Alexandra PEDINIELLI-FÉRON
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Semantic Plasticity and Speech Reports [PDF]
The Philosophical Review, 2014 Most meanings we express belong to large families of variant meanings, among which it would be implausible to suppose that some are much more apt for being expressed than others. This abundance of candidate meanings creates pressure to think that the proposition attributing any particular meaning to an expression is modally plastic: its truth depends ...
Dorr, Cian, Hawthorne, John
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Singer ou de la répétition des mots à l’imitation des corps
Itinéraires, 2009 This article addresses the ways in which the other’s gestures, postures, and attitudes (subsumed by the concept of corporality), just as his/her words, can be reported, and the place of corporal repetition in reported speech as a specific phenomenon of ...
Laurence Rosier
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“Deux mots de lettre pour te dire que …”
Corela, 2020 This work aims at examining the characteristics of enunciative heterogeneity in a corpus composed of letters from soldiers of the Great War with substandard proficiency in the language.
Corinne Gomila
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Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context [PDF]
, 2013 On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or American).
Breitkreutz +80 more
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Development of a speech recognition system for Spanish broadcast news [PDF]
, 2008 This paper reports on the development process of a speech recognition system for Spanish broadcast news within the MESH FP6 project. The system uses the SONIC recognizer developed at the Center for Spoken Language Research (CSLR), University of Colorado.
Jong, Franciska de, Niculescu, Andreea
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