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Charting New Paths in the Study of Kin Term Acquisition

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Kin terms appear among infants’ earliest words, yet a full mastery of kin concepts typically emerges only in late childhood. This prolonged developmental trajectory reflects not only children's acquisition of an abstract relational system of words, but also their growing understanding of social relationships and interactional norms.
Marisa Casillas, Yuchen Jin, Stephen C. Levinson   +2 more
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Address Terms in Communication Between Fashion Companies and Their Customers on Instagram

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the ways in which three global fashion brands, Princess Polly (Australia), Adore Me (United States) and Cider (China), address customers in their Instagram comments and captions during a 3‐month period in 2022. The analysis focuses on positive politeness markers such as the use of first names, nicknames and friendship/
Minna Nevala, Hanna Limatius
wiley   +1 more source

an Analysis of Deixis and Speech Act Used in English Teaching and Learning Process

Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal, 2017
This study focuses on analyzing deixis and speech acts used by the English teacher and eleventh grade students of language program at Islamic Integrated Senior High School Curup in the academic year 2013/2014.
Yulfi Patmo
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User Perceptions of Endearment Love and Regional Identity in Northern England

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the contemporary pragmatic scope of the endearment love and its indexical links with British regional identities as perceived by English language users in the United Kingdom. Popular metapragmatic stereotypes often associate the term with specific ‘northern’ English, working‐class and White socio‐ethnic identities ...
Nicole Baumgarten
wiley   +1 more source

GRAMMATICAL MEANS INDICATING SOCIAL DEIXIS IN A LITERARY TEXT

, 2022
Speech activity always occurs in connection with the need to express in linguistic form a personal attitude to reality in connection with it. Such speech activity is carried out with the help of deictic means. In this article, pronouns, forms of address as grammatical means pointing to social deixis are involved in the analysis.
openaire   +2 more sources

Embodied, Enacted, and Multimodal: Exploring Science Teachers’ Metaphors in Authentic Classroom Contexts

Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 5, Page 1469-1496, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, science education research has extensively examined the role of metaphors in teaching and learning science. However, much of the existing research has focused on verbal manifestations of metaphors, thereby overlooking aspects of metaphors that may occur in non‐verbal form. This study reconceptualises metaphors as dynamic
Magdalena Kersting, Priscila Kohler, Marianne Ødegaard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TINJAUAN WILAYAH KOMUNIKASI PADA PENGGUNAAN SHIJISHI KO-SO-A DALAM WAWANCARA INTERAKTIF BAHASA JEPANG

Lite: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya, 2012
Deixis are words meaning pointing. Accroding to Levinson (1983:54), deixis are classified into five types, they are person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, social deixis, and discourse deixis.
Irma Winingsih
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Spheres of interest: Space and social cognition in Phola deixis

Open Linguistics, 2023
Abstract After a period of space-centred description of demonstratives, recent research has highlighted the role of attention, psychological proximity and shared knowledge in determining deictic choice. While convincing evidence has been presented that mental states may define deictic reference (e.g.
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Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

Pronoun Drop as an Instrumental Variable

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 629-635, August 2026.
ABSTRACT A growing literature in comparative economics uses linguistic structure in empirical work to explain differences in culture and economic behavior, through the theoretical mechanism of linguistic relativity (or the “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis”). This paper explores the usage of one of these variables, pronoun drop, which denotes whether or not a ...
Ryan H. Murphy
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