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Speech acts that support other speech acts

Dialogue & Discourse
Theories of discourse structure and existing discourse structure annotation schemes (e.g. Mann and Thompson, 1988; Sanders, 1997; Asher and Lascarides, 2003; Webber et al., 2019) often make a distinction between propositional, subject-matter, or semantic coherence relations on the one hand, and speech-act-level, presentational, or pragmatic relations ...
Katja Jasinskaja, Frank Zickenheiner
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Movies Are Speech Acts: A Speech-act Analysis of Movies

, 2018
This paper aims to relate speech acts to movies by analyzing the discourse of movies inthe light of Austin's and Searle's notions of speech acts treating entire movies as singleutterances (/communicative acts/texts) spoken to the audience. Movie-utterances havebeen tested against Austin's and Searle 's criteria of speech acts (including their ...
Siddique, Zainab, Uzair, Muhammad
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Impact of instruction based on movie and TV series clips on EFL learners' pragmatic competence: Speech acts in focus. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Omar FR, Razı Ö.
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Questioning speech acts

, 2019
We investigate the sentence-final particle ho from Cantonese, which can stack on top of other sentence-final particles indicating various types of speech acts. We argue that ho is a higher level question operator that operates at the level of speech acts.
Law, Jess H.-K., Bhadra, Diti, Li, Haoze
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Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli, Mudasir Andrabi, Tova Cohen, Pranali G. Patel, Tapasya Katta, Chen Lin   +5 more
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Speech by His Excellency President William Samoei Ruto, Phd., C.G.H on Mashujaa Day October 20, 2022

, 2022
President William Ruto’s 2022 Mashujaa Day address honours Kenya’s freedom fighters and the values that drove the independence struggle—unity, sacrifice, justice, and patriotism—while calling on citizens to embody these ideals through everyday acts of ...

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A Depolarizing Leak in Sodium Bicarbonate Cotransporter NBCe1 Causes Brain Edema

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives SLC4A4 encodes electrogenic sodium bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1, prominently expressed in kidney and brain. Recessive loss‐of‐function variants in SLC4A4 cause proximal renal tubular acidosis, no brain edema. In the brain, NBCe1 is expressed by astrocytes, where it regulates pH and mediates astrocyte volume changes.
Quinty Bisseling, Mark D. Parker, Sven Kerst, Richard A. Pasternack, Jacob Tondreau, Marjolein Breur, Gemma M. van Rooijen‐van Leeuwen, Davide Tonduti, Ettore Salsano, Alejandra Darling, Joanna A. E. van Wijk, Susanna Törnroth‐Horsefield, Marianna Bugiani, Petra J. W. Pouwels, Quinten Waisfisz, Marjo S. van der Knaap, Rogier Min   +16 more
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Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants. ABSTRACT Objective Return of disease activity is expected when patients discontinue disease‐modifying therapy (DMT) for multiple sclerosis (MS). Some MS DMTs are associated with higher‐than‐expected disease activity (rebound) after discontinuation.
Ralf Gold, Krzysztof W. Selmaj, Regina Berkovich, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Giancarlo Comi, Eva K. Havrdová, James K. Sheffield, Hetal Desai, Chun‐Yen Cheng, Jon V. Riolo, Andrew Thorpe, Erik DeBoer, Bruce A. C. Cree   +12 more
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The pragmatics of Kirundi marriage discourse : speech acts and discourse strategies

, 1991
This dissertation is a descriptive study of speech acts encoded in Kirundi marriage transactional discourse and the strategies used by the participants to encode them and attempts to understand the interrelationships between the speech acts and the ...
Nkurikiye, Sylvestre
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CSF Monoamine Metabolites and Cognitive Trajectory in Early Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Imaging and postmortem studies indicate that abnormalities in monoaminergic neurotransmission contribute to cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, it remains uncertain if cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites can serve as biomarkers of cognitive decline in early PD.
Jing‐Yu Shao, Rong Li, Yu‐Xiang Jiao, Kai Ma, Hong‐Qi Yang, Zheng‐Yu Sun, Jie‐Wen Zhang, Shuai Chen   +7 more
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