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Vocatives with determiners: the case of vocatives preceded by possessives
Isogloss, 2020 In some varieties of Spanish (American, above all), possessives can appear in vocative constructions such as Mi niña, ¿qué haces? (lit. ‘My girl, what are you doing?’) in contrast to the generalization that vocatives refuse definite articles (Bosque 1996,
Laura González López
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Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022 This paper takes a critical interactional sociolinguistic approach to examine the construction ofinterculturality(e.g., Nishizaka 1995; Mori 2003) through the use of vocatives in the discourse of a multi-cultural graduate student project group at a large American university.
Alice Corr
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Processing of linguistic deixis in people with schizophrenia, with and without auditory verbal hallucinations [PDF]
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are a key symptom of schizophrenia (SZ) defined by anomalous perception of speech. Anomalies of processing external speech stimuli have also been reported in people with AVH, but it is unexplored which specific ...
Paola Fuentes-Claramonte +13 more
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Vocatives: correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface
Cogent Arts and Humanities, 2018 Vocative expressions have been neglected in linguistic inquiry until very recently. This article provides a novel approach to the study of vocatives based on correlating the syntax and discourse at the interface.
Mohammed Q Shormani
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Vocatives and Vocative Particles in the Syntax-pragmatics Interface in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 Vocatives are small but important expressions in the meaning of an utterance. They are defined as a means of drawing an addressee's attention, in order to “establish or maintain a relationship between this addressee and some proposition” (Lambrecht, 1996,
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Zahra Mozaffari
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A complementary observation to determine Phaedrus’ age in Plato’s Phaedrus
Ágora, 2021 This paper deals with the problem of determining Phaedrus’ age in the eponymous dialogue. The vocatives ὦ νεανία and ὦ παῖ, in Pl. Phdr. 257c8 and 267c6, could suggest that Plato depicts him as a teenager. However, most scholars believe that Phaedrus is
Jonathan Lavilla de Lera
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A Pragma-Syntactic Study of Vocative in Selected English Novels
آداب الكوفة, 2023 This paper attempts to investigate the syntactic-pragmatic relationship associated with vocative use in two English novels–namely, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Hussein Al-Hassnawi, Hussein Ibrahim
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Vocatives as parenthetical adjuncts: Evidence from Arabic
Glossa, 2020 Vocatives are noun phrases that are generally used as calls to attract an addressee’s attention or as addresses to maintain contact with her/him. In her 2014 book, Virginia Hill analyzes vocatives as forms of address; they are converted to syntax as ...
Youssef Haddad
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Vocative Intonation in Language Contact: The Case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish
Languages, 2023 The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral
Jonas Grünke +3 more
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Vocatives in Russian and English Discourse
Филологический класс, 2021 In the Russian and English discourse, there is a set of nationally specific vocatives that form a system and can be represented in a Russian-English and English-Russian ideographic dictionary of vocatives.
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