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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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FRENCH HOTEL DISCOURSE AND ITS SPEECH GENRE PALETTE [PDF]

open access: gold, 2017
Зайцева Ирина Евгеньевна   +1 more
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Blackmail: Speech act VS Speech Genre

open access: yesInternational Journal “Speech Genres”, 2018
Nadezhda Nickolaevna Panchenko   +1 more
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

SUPPLICATION GENRE AND THE MEANS OF ITS LANGUAGE IMPLEMENTATION

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
This work was written with its topical genre tendency due to anthropocentricity of modern linguistic science. The genre of supplication, claimed as the object of the study, is presented as a special model of verbal expression, a certain complex of ...
T. G. Rabenko
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Speech genres, speech acts and the language of advertising

open access: yesRussian Language Studies, 2013
An advertisement can be described as a specific speech pattern having a certain genre and composition structure. Since an advertisement is much alike primary speech genres (message, announcement, explanation) in terms of their form and communicative goal, the theory of speech acts can be applied to their study.
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