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Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain) [PDF]
Nominal and pronominal address forms, which play a central role in the construction of interpersonal relations (cf. Bargiela et al. 2002; Clyne, Norrby and Warren 2009), have been the focus of attention in different linguistics subfields for several ...
Fuentes Rodríguez, C. +2 more
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Revisiting Vocatives in English
This study aims at revisiting the forms and functions of vocatives in English. Vocatives can be classified into different forms that perform two main functions in English viz, calling the addressee and maintaining the relationship, the former labeled as ...
Asst. Lect. Salah Y. Rasheed Asst. Lect. Salah Y. Rasheed +1 more
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Phatic units of language and the theory of speech genres [PDF]
The article discusses approaches to the description of the phatic communication domain and the connection between the concept of phatics and the theory of speech genres.
Sharonov, Igor Alekseevich
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Stance-taking in Spanish-speaking Preschoolers' Argumentative Interaction [PDF]
The aim of this study is to determine what linguistic resources are used for stance-taking in confrontational interactions. For this purpose, we analyze 70 argumentative sequences in spontaneous peer conversations during play situations of 4 dyads (2 mid
Migdalek, Maia Julieta +2 more
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“Allez, (mon) chou, on y va!”. Twenty years later: Revisiting the puzzle of French vocatives [PDF]
The main assumption put forward in this paper is that that vocative phrases are not substantially different from noun phrases in argument positions when it comes to their internal make-up and the rules underlying their syntactic derivation.
Martine Coene*,Yves D’hulst**, Liliane Tasmowski***
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Prosody as an argument for a layered left periphery [PDF]
Van Heuven and Haan’s (2000, 2002) experimental work on the prosody of Dutch question types found that the prosodic signalling of interrogativity is stronger for declarative questions, less so for yes/no-questions and even less so for wh-questions.
De Clercq, Karen
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On definiteness and person in Romanian vocatives
We investigate the correlations between the various morphosyntactic types of Romanian vocatives (+/- vocative-morphology, +/- definiteness) and the main types of vocative uses – addresses, evaluative, selecting calls and non-selecting calls (where ...
Blanca Croitor, Ion Giurgea
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The ancient Greek address system and some proposed sociolinguistic universals [PDF]
© 1997 Cambridge University PressThis article summarizes the results of a longer study of address forms in Ancient Greek, based on 11,891 address tokens from a variety of sources.
Dickey, Eleanor
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A preliminary analysis of intonation patterns in Ecuadorian Cuencano Spanish
El Cantado Cuencano “Cuencano singing” constitutes the hallmark of Cuencano Spanish: a widely spoken Andean dialect in the Ecuadorian province of Azuay.
Portocarrero Alex, Stewart Jesse
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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