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Diglosia, 2022 This study aims to identify the content of extortion and threats in messages sent by collectors from PT (reported) to NT (whistleblower). This research uses the descriptive qualitative method.
Ali Kusno +2 more
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Referring to women using feminine and neuter gender
Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2021 In German, gender is a strongly grammaticalized category and has the function of indicating grammatical agreement between syntactic units. Usually, each noun is assigned one of three grammatical genders.
Simone Busley, Damaris Nübling
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Fostering learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness through film analysis
Language Value, 2021 Film-based dialogues have been praised in the current work on pragmatics as a potentially useful source that can enhance learners’ (meta)pragmatic awareness of the pragmatic phenomena in actual communicative events. Following this view, this paper first
Esther Usó-Juan, Alicia Martínez-Flor
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Language Value, 2018 Author/s Aika Miura Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate whether it is possible to assess learners’ sociopragmatic competence in learner spoken data by examining requests produced by Japanese ...
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Revisiting intertextuality and humour: fresh perspectives on a classic topic
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 In humour research, intertextuality has been extensively studied with the aim of understanding how humorous texts are constructed on the basis of previous texts. In this paper, we elaborate on the sociopragmatic functions of intertextuality, pointing out
Villy Tsakona, Jan Chovanec
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AN ANALYSIS OF COMMISSIVE SPEECH ACTS USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN WOMEN-CENTRIC MOVIES
International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS), 2023 This study explores the usage of commissive speech acts in the women-centric movies "Little Women" and "Enola Holmes." It employs Searle's classification of speech acts (1979), along with Hymes' social structure theory (2001) and Brown Levinson's ...
Hamadah Ashfiya, Agwin Degaf
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) and their translation into English. The study aims to identify the most effective English translations of these metaphors by sending a questionnaire
Ali Mohammed Saleh Al-Hamzi +3 more
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Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish
Open Linguistics, 2023 In this article, we provide further evidence that Bogotá Spanish is transitioning from being an extensively usted-using variety into one in which tú is preferred in informal interaction by analyzing survey data through a quantitative approach, and ...
Fernández-Mallat Víctor, Barrero David
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Grammatical gender reversals: A morphosyntactic and sociopragmatic analysis
Open Linguistics, 2021 This work analyzes grammatical gender reversals (feminine to masculine and masculine to feminine) in various languages by examining them both morphosyntactically and sociopragmatically, and is, to the best of my knowledge, the first such twofold analysis
Steriopolo Olga
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DOMINANT TYPES OF LANDSCAPE DESCRIPTIONS IN VERBALIZING THE TEXT CATEGORY OF COHERENCE
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies the main features of types of landscape descriptions in providing the coherence and cohesion of a literary text. The essence of these linguistic phenomena is analyzed.
Arcady Borisov
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