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Sociolinguistic Representations of the French Spoken in Rouen [PDF]
Thierry Bulot
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Provocative Vocatives: Slurs as Expressives
ABSTRACT Fifty years ago, Zwicky demonstrated the slur‐neutral counterpart vocative divergence thesis (SNCVD):Slurs occur freely as vocatives. Neutral counterparts do not. In this article, I craft a novel problem for theories of slurs. The Vocatives Problem is the challenge to explain the SNCVD. I argue that there are two strong solutions.
Robin Jeshion
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African American English intensifier dennamug: Using twitter to investigate syntactic change in low-frequency forms. [PDF]
Jones T.
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Variationist’s Approaches towards Japanese Language [PDF]
Yoshiyuki, Asahi
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MOTHER-TONGUE (L1) PHONOLOGICAL INTERFERENCE IN THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF SOUVENIR SELLERS IN LOMBOK [PDF]
This study aimed to examine the mother-tongue (L1) phonological interference in the spoken English of Souvenir Sellers in Lombok. Language and human are inseparable and since the languages of the world used in communication, there is bound to be a ...
Suadiyatno, Taufik
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Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken+1 more
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Professional discourse in multilingual settings: policies and practices [PDF]
De Clerck, Bernard+4 more
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Legal Methodology and Complexity: A Comment on Allen
Abstract This article is a response to Ronald J. Allen's “Reflections on Complexity, Evidence, and Law.” I begin by analyzing three key concepts that Allen employs in his argument: reductionism, emergence, and complexity. On the basis of this analysis, I question Allen's criticism of the reductionist approach that, according to him, legal scholarship ...
Michele Ubertone
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