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The conventions of the vocative may be broken for rhetorical effect: close-by addressees may be addressed as if they are far away, and vice-versa, to denote physical or emotional distance from the communicator. The vocative may also be used to introduce the expression of regret, lamentation, sarcasm or rebuke.
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On Moving Showstoppers: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘I’m Still Here’, There and Everywhere
Critical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 13-32, December 2024.
Edward Allen
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Addressing the Addressees: A Discourse Stylistic Study of the Vocatives in the Holy Qurʼān
Pakistan Journal of Islamic ResearchThis study investigates the function of vocatives in the Holy Qurʼān. The actual purpose of vocatives is to attract the attention of the addressee for a specific message, order, warning, command, instructions, awareness, and other exclamatory purposes ...
Sarwat Awan +2 more
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A Description of Tucumán Spanish Intonation in Argentina
Open Linguistics, 2017 This paper documents for the first time the intonation system of Tucumán Spanish, an understudied variety of Argentinian Spanish. Semi-spontaneous speech illustrating the intonation of main sentence types, i.e.
Terán Virginia, Ortega-Llebaria Marta
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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Язык и текстThe article discusses different types of vocatives that are performed in the story by A.S. Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" has a number of significant functions.
N.V. Chernikova
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Studia Linguistica RomanicaThis study investigates the use of preverbal addressees in discourse. More specifically, we examinethe effect of politeness on the acceptability of these vocatives in declarative sentences and why-interrogativesin Spanish.
Capellino, Julia, Krieger, Svenja
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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis
SAGE OpenAn increasing number of studies in pragmatics, second language acquisition, and related fields have opted to use sitcom conversations as a substitute for natural conversations in their analyses.
Min Li, Yan Xiao
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Impoliteness in Online News Discourse: Evidence from BBC News Facebook Comments
СибСкриптThis study investigates impoliteness in the comment section of the BBC English News website, focusing on the types of conventionalized impolite triggers used by commenters.
Derki Noureddine +2 more
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Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Mbada CE +9 more
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