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Effectiveness of Chatbots in Improving Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis of Comparative Studies
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 834-851, May 2025.ABSTRACT The development of artificial intelligence has presented new opportunities and challenges for language education. Using artificial intelligence techniques such as automatic speech recognition and generative artificial intelligence, conversational chatbots have been integrated into language learning and teaching. However, findings of the impact
Boning Lyu, Chun Lai, Jianing Guo
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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“So moche ye owe me”: Speech-Like Representation in Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2017 Historical pragmatics of the last two decades has continued to refine its tools for examining the relationship of speech and writing (e.g. Culpeper and Kytö 2010).
Colette Moore
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“You’re too thick to change the station” – Impoliteness, insults and responses to insults on Twitter
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 This paper aims to propose a typology of replies to insults based on data retrieved from Twitter, which is ripe with offensive comments. The proposed typology is embedded in the theory of impoliteness, and it hinges on the notion of the perlocutionary ...
Bączkowska Anna
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On Nominatives Joining or ‘Replacing’ Vocatives [PDF]
Lingua, 1956 Abstract The construction Zeṽ πα'τeϱ ... 'He'λιoζ τe may probably be explained by the tendency to avoid ‘Ubercharakterisierung’, the nominative often replacing other forms of a noun. With regard to the grammatical form of an attribute of a vocative there does not seem to have been a generally accepted idiom in prehistoric times.
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 497-525, March 2025.Abstract Silence can be a communicative act. Tanesini (2018) demonstrates how “eloquent” silences can virtuously indicate resistance and dissent; in this paper, I outline one way silence can also be used viciously to cause discursive harm, specifically by slurring victims. By distinguishing between eloquent and “signaling” silences (two kinds of what I
A. G. Holdier
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The analysis of truncated vocatives in Taviano (Salentino) Italian
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 This paper documents and discusses various descriptive generalizations and alternative analyses of the vocative truncation found in the Southern Italian dialect of Taviano that is illustrated by such formations as Filoména > Filomé.
Michael Kenstowicz
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LanguagesIn this article, we address the issue of the sometimes indeterminate grammatical and functional status of vocatives and vocative-like NPs by proposing a prototype-based approach to their classification.
Janel Zoske, Tanja Ackermann
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The cross‐linguistic uses of proper names
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 1, Page 106-121, February 2025.Abstract A distinctive and widely recognized feature of proper names is that, unlike other words, names can be used across languages without modification. Yet, this feature of names—the prevalence and acceptability of their ‘cross‐linguistic’ uses—has been mostly overlooked within philosophy.
Nikhil Mahant
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How to commentate a soccer match in Shipibo-Konibo (Pano)?
Liames, 2020 The present paper lists and illustrates eleven strategies that are systematically used by Shipibo-Konibo speakers in order to comment live soccer matches in the context of an indigenous soccer cup informally called “Mundialito Shipibo”.
Roberto Zariquiey +7 more
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