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Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined verbal irony comprehension in monolingual and bilingual autistic children, focusing on irony recognition, intention understanding, cue use while deciphering ironic meanings, and error patterns. A low‐verbal, multimodal task was used to minimize linguistic and metalinguistic demands.
Maria Andreou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Directive prohibition utterances with honorific politeness used by families in Makassarese community: An ethnolinguistic study

open access: yesDiglosia
Different ways are used in delivering prohibition utterances in a particular society. This research is important because it reveals social value, honor, and philosophical value reflected in prohibition utterances applied by families in Makassar society ...
Nashruddin Nashruddin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implicity of indirect utterances (on material of American and English authors’ fiction texts)

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2015
In the given article implicity of indirect utterances (on material of american and english authors’ fiction texts) is studied. In this connection texts, in which implicity is present, are investigated.The object of the analysis is monologue and response ...
Semenova Sophia Novikovna
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Politeness Principle in Pragmatics Study

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics Research, 2019
The study focuses on Politeness Principle found in the movie Kung Fu Panda 1 using Leech’s theory.Leech defines politeness as forms of behaviour that establish and maintain comity.
Alfin Rosyidha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of backchannel utterances as a strategy to facilitate idea-generation in a copresence situation

open access: yesJournal of Human Environmental Studies, 2004
This study investigated the effect of backchannel utterances as a strategy to facilitate idea-generation when a listener was copresent with a speaker who was engaged in divergent thinking.
Machiko Sannomiya
doaj   +1 more source

Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Character education research is often constrained by blunt methodological tools. Surveys capture breadth without depth; case studies offer richness but lack replicability; and randomised controlled trials (RCTs), though indispensable at the policy level, are costly, disruptive and ill‐suited to everyday practice with individual pupils.
Shane McLoughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Forgiving as a Performative Utterance

open access: yes, 2021
Abstract When A wrongs B, A incurs an obligation to make atonement to B by apologizing with repentance, making reparation, and perhaps also doing a bit more for B, which I call “penance.” For B to forgive A (in the morally most important sense of “forgive”) is for B to promise to treat A in the future as someone who has not wronged B. It
openaire   +2 more sources

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