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Ismailova, F. "COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF DIPLOMATIC DISCOURSE." BULLETIN Series of Philological Sciences 73, no. 3 (2020): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.51889/2020-3.1728-7804.13.
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The article is devoted to the communicative and pragmatic features of diplomatic discourse from the point of view of its institutional nature. Diplomatic discourse is viewed as a unity of linguistic, cognitive and communicative aspects. Another factor of the diplomatic discourse is the linguistic personality of the diplomat, which determines the success of all communication. The categories of politeness and manipulation are noted as integral components of diplomatic discourse. The article examines in detail the tactics used in diplomatic discourse and their influence on the choice of a particular pragmatic phenomenon: communicative, interactive, perceptual. The article defines the parameters of diplomatic discourse as institutional and reveals its basic system-forming characteristics. In recent years, scholars have been actively exploring and describing discourse using different approaches. The reference to diplomatic discourse and its linguo-pragmatic categories in the article is carried out from the position: pragmalinguistics, discourse linguistics, communication theory.
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Pallavi, Kiran, and Rahman Mojibur. "A preliminary pragmatic model to evaluate poetry translation." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 64, no. 3 (2018): 434–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.00046.pal.
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Abstract The article presents a Preliminary Pragmatic Model (PPM) with the practical levels of pragmatic features. Poetry translation pose great difficulty in retaining the ‘extra-linguistic features’ of the source text and target text. When placing more emphasis on linguistic features, ‘extra-linguistics’ are ignored by the evaluators. This lack is largely due to the non authentication of pragmatics of the languages involved and the non-development of ‘extra-linguistic’ parameters for evaluation. Focusing on this fact, the study takes pragmatic as the common denominator between poetry and translation, and develops a pragmatic model. The model adopts the concept and objective from the prominent Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) model of Juliane House, and the two models of Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi and his team: (a) Practical Model for Translation Analysis and Assessment of Poetic Discourse, and (b) Semiotic Model for Poetry Translation. The model is an extended part of Vahid’s model with pragmatic (features) layering. The article is prefaced with a brief description of the pragmatic features and functions to explain how and why it matters to compare poetry translation. Later, the effectiveness of the model is tested with a randomly-selected short poem by Gulzar and its English translation by Nirupama Dutt. Gulzar is an Indian poet writing in Hindustani (a mix of Hindi and Urdu). Versing mostly in free style, he makes his poems pragmatically poignant with unusual imagery. Evaluating his poems through the model verifies its working. The findings (tabulated, compared, and discussed) show literal translation of metaphors that becomes displaced as well as losing the sense in the poem. Thus, the translation misses the pragmatic force of Gulzar’s philosophy and does not achieve dynamic equivalence. The study recommends the application of pragmatic procedure for evaluation of poetry translation and offer new possibilities in translation research.
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Karimova, Yasmina. "LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF LEGAL COMMUNICATION PHRASES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK." Oriental Journal of History, Politics and Law 01, no. 01 (2021): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/supsci-ojhpl-01-01.
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This article is devoted to the study of the linguistic features of English and Uzbek expressions with legal semantics. The author gives expressions corresponding to the subject of the article and demonstrates the pragmatic implementation of their legal content. The theoretical part of the article is confirmed by the corresponding examples of English and Uzbek expressions with legal meaning.
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Gómez, Marjorie N. "Focusing on Speech Acts to Understand and Teach Pragmatics in Language Instruction." Revista Científica de FAREM-Estelí, no. 16 (May 9, 2016): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/farem.v0i16.2605.
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Pragmatics is considered to be an important aspect of language instruction. Today, scholars in language instruction recognize that learners must develop linguistic as well as pragmatic competence. Pragmatic competence helps learners understand, employ, and interpret language in context. However, pragmatics is regarded as one of the most strenuous aspects of language teaching and learning. Studies in pragmatics still seek to respond to the question about the teachability of targeted pragmatic features, which opens the question about whether pragmatics can be taught effectively. Can pragmatics be fully taught or must educators focus on key features of pragmatics such as speech acts, which is perhaps currently the most important established part of the subject? Certainly pragmatics and language teaching should accompany each other. However, in order to assist and assess learners in the appropriate use of language in context, language teachers today must receive some explicit instruction about pragmatics themselves. They need to be acquainted with the resources available to teach pragmatic norms. Speech acts, as part of pragmatics, can help teachers orient their instruction on developing a general awareness of how language forms are used in context. Speech acts provide a framework on which teachers can build learning opportunities for L2 pragmatic development. Speech acts can greatly support students´ development of pragmatic competence. Focusing on speech acts to teach pragmatics seems to be the answer today in language instruction; at least until new classroom research arise to help teachers find resources and materials of pragmatic features and norms.
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AVERIN, ARTYOM S. "LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH POPULAR LEGAL TEXTS: THEORY AND PRACTICE." Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, no. 4 (2020): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2410-7190_2020_6_4_5_15.
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The article describes the basic text features applied to a number of typical English popular legal texts. These include integrity, connectedness, continuity, pragmatic attitude, informativeness, completeness. Each feature is briefly described: integrity reflects the indissoluble connection of all elements of the text, connectedness refers to the internal semantic unity of the text and the continuity implies the input of new information into the existing semantic indissoluble chain of text, pragmatic attitude is a functional orientation of the author of the text to achieve specific objectives, informativeness involves the gradual disclosure of the topic text by entering all new information, completeness means the disclosure it threads to the necessary extent. The paper also analyzes the manifestation of these features in relation to the research material. The analysis shows that pragmatic attitude of English popular legal texts is specific because of the author's intention to clarify legal rules, court's decisions, and legal practice related to a particular legal issue...
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Anvar Rustamovich, Ismailov. "PRAGMATIC - LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF ASTONISHMENT CATEGORY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE." International Journal of Advanced Research 7, no. 11 (2019): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/9980.
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Lee, V. S., and R. D. Karymsakova. "LINGUISTIC PRAGMATICS AND SPEECH ACT THEORY AS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF JUDICIAL LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE (from lingual expert practice)." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no. 3 (July 28, 2016): 155–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2016-3-155-159.
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The paper reflects the progress and results of such applied linguistic research, as the conclusion of the expert-philologist (forensic linguistic) expertise, the object of which is due to the content of tasks for the specialist (expert). According to the transcript of a conversation, the features of verbal behavior of participants of the conversation that are relevant for the criminal investigation are studied. The study used lingual pragmatic analysis, techniques of text discursive analysis. The result of the semantic-pragmatic analysis of speech situations, speech acts as the units of researched conversation led to unambiguous conclusions about the nature of relations between the participants of the conversation, the communicative role of each of them, the absence of women’s guilt in the state of fear experienced by man, etc. In general, conversation analysis has shown that the achievement of linguistic pragmatics with its theory of speech acts can be successfully used in forensic linguistic examination. The results of this research can be used in the formulation of recommendations on the methodological support of forensic linguistic examination.
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Lang, Jun. "What impacts L2 Chinese pragmatic competence in the study abroad context?" Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報). The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA 54, no. 3 (2019): 191–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/csl.18001.lan.
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Abstract This paper reviews current literature on contributions of the study abroad context to second language (L2) Chinese pragmatics and discusses the future prospects of this rapidly growing research area. By synthesizing sixteen empirical studies on pragmatic competence in L2 Chinese in the study-abroad context, this paper answers one question: What impacts L2 Chinese pragmatic competence in the study abroad (SA) context? The findings show that the SA effect on L2 Chinese pragmatic development is mediated by seven factors including general proficiency, pre-program pragmatic competence, language exposure, intercultural competence, learner agency, linguistic affordance, and learner language and cultural background. Based on the research synthesis, this paper suggests future research directions regarding target pragmatic features, measurements, pragmatic competence in writing, and learner factors mediating study-abroad effect from a dynamic-system perspective.
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Potts, Christopher. "On the negativity of negation." Semantics and Linguistic Theory, no. 20 (April 3, 2015): 636. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v0i20.2565.
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Natural language negation is persistently negative in the pragmatic sense, and emphatic and attenuating negative polarity items modulate this effect in systematic ways. I use large corpora of informal texts with meta-data approximating features of the context to characterize this pragmatic negativity, and I attempt to explain it in terms of the ways in which negative sentences engage the questions under discussion. The discussion highlights some of the ways in which quantitative corpus methods can be used to achieve novel results in linguistic pragmatics.
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Potts, Christopher. "On the negativity of negation." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20 (August 14, 2010): 636. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v20i0.2565.
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Natural language negation is persistently negative in the pragmatic sense, and emphatic and attenuating negative polarity items modulate this effect in systematic ways. I use large corpora of informal texts with meta-data approximating features of the context to characterize this pragmatic negativity, and I attempt to explain it in terms of the ways in which negative sentences engage the questions under discussion. The discussion highlights some of the ways in which quantitative corpus methods can be used to achieve novel results in linguistic pragmatics.
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Hassan Nofal, Khalil. "Syntactic aspects of Poetry: A Pragmatic Perspective." Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 4 (October 31, 2011): 91–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/bjll.v4i0.40.
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This paper is meant to review some studies and analyses that deal with the language of poetry as it is different from the language of other literary genres. Poetry consists of language that produces effects ordinary language does not produce. So poetry is a language differently ordered or arranged. Levin (1969) pointed out that linguistic analysis, when applied to poetry, would result in a grammar that is different from the grammar that a linguistic analysis of ordinary language would produce (11).The language of poetry differs drastically from ordinary discourse. Many of these differences derive from certain literary conventions. In other words, many features distinguishing poetry from ordinary discourse result from the mere fact that a writer addresses himself to writing a poem. This fact entails a considerable number and variety of linguistic particularities. The conventions of the poetic form entail features like rhyme, alliteration, meter and so on (Levin 59).
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Shamne, Nikolay, and Elena Pavlova. "Linguistic Pragmatics of English Language Restaurant Online Discourse." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 3 (November 2019): 182–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2019.3.15.
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The paper presents an analysis of linguistic pragmatics of restaurant online discourse that is plunged into studying the content of English versions of British restaurant websites. The authors state that the investigated segment of virtual restaurant communication is organized on the basis of a linguistic-and-pragmatic model, which is constructed from the following components: discourse goal, discourse addresser's intention / communicative-pragmatic purposes with corresponding strategies and tactics. Special attention is paid to the main communication strategies of the discourse under analysis, among which there are the strategies of creating positive emotional mood, constructing an attractive image of the restaurant, increasing the activity of restaurant guests. It is established that these strategies are implemented by a set of tactics. The authors distinguish and describe verbal (lexical, lexical-grammatical and stylistic features), as well as non-verbal means that are used by site moderators for implementing the desired tactics. It is stated that the most frequent linguistic means are lexical units with emotional-expressive and attitudinal meanings, metaphorical and pleonastic constructions, modal verbs, superlatives; interrogative-responsive and imperative structures; non-verbal means of communication are represented by graphics, font and colour highlighting, various illustrations and photographs. The suggested linguistic and pragmatic model uncovers the following restaurant online discourse regularities: location of zones with verbal or non-verbal dominating means is defined by visual assessment factors of information representation on the website.
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Veselko, Vita. "The Focus in Spanish Language: Definition Problems and Syntactic Manifestations." Verba Hispanica 26, no. 1 (2019): 165–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/vh.26.1.165-192.
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The field of information structure, a meeting point of pragmatics with the traditional linguistic disciplines, is nowadays facing many terminological inconsistencies which hinder its theoretical consolidation, and the resulting practical application of its analytical models to concrete linguistic manifestations. The present article aims to revise the different conceptions of one of the central terms of this linguistic discipline, the focus, to contribute to its terminological elucidation. After presenting the existing definitions of focus as a pragmatic function, the author proceeds to analyse the information structure of its syntactic manifestations in concrete communicative situations in an attempt to determine how the assignment of this pragmatic function is conditioned by the degree of newness of the information, and what its relationship with the notion of contrast is. The study thus concludes with an outline proposal of a possible redefinition of the term and its main distinctive features.
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Pardaev, Azamat Bakhronovich. "THE ROLE AND LINGUOPRAGMATICS OF FUNCTIONAL PARTS OF SPEECH OF THE UZBEK LANGUAGE IN THE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM." CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 02, no. 05 (2021): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-05-22.
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Identify the role of function words in Uzbek language system, relation to content words, sources of enrichment and methods, historical and evolutionary development and determination of functional-stylistic and substantial-pragmatic features in speech. The aim of the papers is to define the status of the Uzbek language function words in the linguistic system, and to reveal their source and methods of enrichment, historical and evolutionary development, as well as functional-stylistic and substantial-pragmatic features.
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Galiullina, O. R. "Pragma-linguistic and stylistic features of the English online movie review." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 27, no. 1 (2021): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-1-151-161.
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The paper deals with linguo-pragmatic and semantic-stylistic characteristics of the English-online movie review. Internet communication provides a fertile ground for the development of the modern genre studies due to the emergence and development of digital genres, or Internet genres. The amateur online movie review is one of the most widespread Internet genres due to its high degree of the audience-oriented intention, focus on the wide range of readers, as well as the dialogical nature of communication. The aim of this paper is to reveal and systematize pragmatic and stylistic parameters of the English amateur online movie review. The empirical study is based upon the movie reviews taken from the IMDb website. The analysis of online movie reviews has revealed that their pragmatic function is determined by the use of the wide range of linguistic and stylistic evaluative means. In most cases the ascription of explicit evaluative characteristics to the film and its components in the text of the amateur online movie review is done with the help of the evaluative language. The important finding is that the creation of perlocutionary effect and the attribution of dialogization and intimization to the speech act are created by the use of personal pronouns of the first and second person singular, imperatives, appeals, question-and-answer structure. We have come to the conclusion that various lexical and syntactic means of expressiveness belong to stylistic markers of online movie review carrying evaluative, emotional and emphatic connotations. All the analysis conducted allows us to conclude that online movie review beside the initial function of informing also performs perlocutionary force.
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Belyaeva, Svetlana, and Olga Kirkolup. "Communicative and Pragmatic Features of Everyday Media Discourse in French Linguistic Culture." Philology & Human, no. 2 (July 21, 2021): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/filichel(2021)2-03.
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The article studies the communicative and pragmatic features of everyday media discourse based on the material of French mass-media, particularly, on the Internet commentary as one of the genres in the field of the most important French media events. Based on the empirical material, the following communicative and pragmatic characteristics of Internet comments are identified: interactivity, creativity, authenticity, emotional intensity, brevity. The results of the study underline the importance of further studying the everyday French media discourse, its linguistic and cultural features, and the importance of making a contrastive-comparative analysis of the Internet comments to the same events by different linguistic cultures (French, Russian, English, etc.), in order to highlight ethnospecific and universal methods of social interaction in everyday virtual discourse and in everyday media discourse in particular.
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Margetts, Anna. "The linguistic encoding of three-participant events in Saliba." Studies in Language 26, no. 3 (2002): 613–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.26.3.06mar.
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In this article I investigate the strategies for encoding events with three participants in an Oceanic language. I look at three-place predicates featuring three syntactic arguments but also and particularly at the functional alternatives to such constructions. Besides ditransitive clauses and clauses featuring two arguments plus an adjunct, Saliba speakers productively use two further strategies to express three-participant events. One strategy makes use of possessive classifiers to express a beneficiary, the other features directional suffixes to express a recipient or goal. In both cases pragmatic implicature plays a role in encoding the third participant. There is evidence though that the three-participant reading is beginning to grammaticalize and in investigating these constructions we are looking at the gray area between morpho-syntax and pragmatics.
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Altakhaineh, Abdel Rahman Mitib. "The Linguistic Features of Acronyms in Arabic." SAGE Open 7, no. 4 (2017): 215824401774671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017746710.
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This study investigates the phonological, semantic, and pragmatic features of acronyms in Arabic. Acronyms in Arabic have appeared quite recently as a result of globalization and exposure to or contact with, mainly, English via radio stations and TV channels, which are broadcasting in English and in some countries, for example, Morocco in both English and French. Through in-depth analysis, it has been observed that acronyms in Arabic are subject to different restrictions: (a) The phonological combinations are formed on the basis of Arabic templates; hence, should be compatible with Arabic phonotactics, for example, consonant clusters should be broken up by vowels; (b) the connotation of the acronyms should not be negative; and (c) in conformity with relevance theory, when the acronyms are homophonous to existing words, the former maximize contextual effects with minimum processing effort. The fact that they appear in certain contexts also reduces the processing effort. It has also become evident that the period between the establishment of the movement or party and the first use of the acronym decreases over time, provided that the acronyms are frequently mentioned in the media. The examination of acronyms in different languages shows that acronymization is quite pervasive cross-linguistically; this may suggest that not any word-formation process can easily spread; it needs to be prevalent and potentially universal.
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Babel, Anna. "Why Don't All Contact Features Act Alike? Contact Features as Enregistered Features." Journal of Language Contact 4, no. 1 (2011): 56–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187740911x558806.
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AbstractIt has been widely observed that speakers of Andean Spanish use features that are borrowed or calqued from Quechua (de Granda 2001; Pfänder 2009). In this article, I demonstrate that these features are not evenly distributed over contexts of language use; rather, most contact features occur significantly more frequently in conversations than in formal contexts such as meetings. However, some contact features behave differently: they are more likely to occur in meetings than in conversation. Why don't all contact features act alike? I suggest that this result can be explained by the linguistic anthropological theory of enregisterment (Agha 2005, 2007). Agha defines register as 'a linguistic repertoire that is associated, culture-internally, with particular social practices and with persons who engage in such practices' (2004: 24). I demonstrate that while some Quechua contact features in Spanish have been linked to informal contexts associated with Quechua and Quechua speakers through the process of enregisterment, other features bypassed this process, retaining Quechua pragmatic content that links them to a formal register. I argue that the theory of enregisterment provides a useful tool for interpreting the effects of language contact.
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Zinaida, Bandurko. "LINGUISTIC AND PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF THE POETIC TEXTS OF THE MOVEMENT “NEW OBJECTIVITY”." Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series Germanic Studies and Intercultural Communication, no. 1 (September 30, 2019): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32999/ksu2663-3426/2019-1-2.
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Khramchenko, D. S. "FUNCTIONAL-LINGUISTIC PARAMETERS OF ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE." Professional Discourse & Communication 1, no. 1 (2019): 9–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2019-1-1-9-20.
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This paper is devoted to basic functional-linguistic analysis of modern English professional and business discourse. The aim of this paper is to look at the phenomenon of modern English professional discourse from a functional-linguistic perspective to discuss key elements of verbal interaction that define rhetorical uniqueness of this type of communication and combine traditions, standards and conventional nature with enough freedom for speakers to express themselves and be creative in composing texts of their own. The author sums up different approaches to the definition of professional communication, singles out and describes major functional features of this type of verbal interaction: goal-setting, functional loading of professional communication, typical participants, chronotopos, forms of verbal behaviour, role and status relations, pragmatic conventions and standardization, etiquette, functional differences between official and semi-official professional discourse, peculiarities of written communication. All the above mentioned functional features of modern English professional discourse impose severe limitations on the speech arsenal available to people. Basic functionallinguistic analysis of discursive fragments reveals what aspects should be further elaborated on in terms of improving the process of strategic planning of speech, selecting proper linguistic means to cause appropriate pragmatic impact on listeners/ readers, work out ways to increase efficiency of rhetoric.
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Lundquist, Lita. "Mere fugl end fisk. Sproglige ligheder og forskelle bag typologisering af tekster." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 11, no. 20 (2017): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v11i20.25451.
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The work reported here explores a cognitive-communicative hypothesis of text ty-pology that text types defined on external communicative criteria also exhibit typical constellations of linguistic features text-internally. Inspired by Tversky's (1981) math-ematical "contrast model of similarities", a French contract, a law and a judgment were analyzed using the computer program 'Cohérelle' into sets of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and textlinguistic features. Subsequent computations showed that reliable similarities (in the linguistic expression of cognitive content) and differences (in the use of communicative grounding expressions) could in fact be distinguished among the linguistic features of the three text exemplars, thus permitting the postulation of dif-ferent types on text-internal linguistic grounds.
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Toska, Bledar. "Dialogizing Communication through Pragmatic Markers." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 5, no. 1-2 (2008): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.5.1-2.89-98.
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The paper discusses the meta-communicative features of pragmatic markers. Communication is approached from the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism, which is seen as a two-way process between interlocutors in speech. In this view, the word is seen as a dialogical item that exists and gains meaning only in the context in which it is used. Pragmatic markers are dialogically fecund in their use. They play an important role in the communicative process thanks not only to their dialogical value but also to their meta-status. They are meta-communicative, meta-linguistic and meta-pragmatic linking words that express our divergent viewpoints and positions in communication.
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Ablova, Natalia. "TYPES OF NICKNAMES, THEIR PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS UND FEAATURES." Interexpo GEO-Siberia 5 (2019): 159–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.33764/2618-981x-2019-5-159-166.
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Today, in the era of multiple names, there is a large number of terms for the informal nomination of a person. But despite the large number of linguistic works devoted to their research, there is no systematic understanding of all types of informal nominations of the person, their functions and features. Therefore, the article attempts to classify them and identify their pragmatic functions and lexico-semantic features. To this end, the sites of news portals, blogs, microblogs, entertainment forums were viewed, which presented the authentic use of nicknames by representatives of the German national cultural community.
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Belozerova, Natalia N., and Anna A. ISAKOVA. "Pragmatic Dominants of the Regional Menu Text." Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates 6, no. 4 (2020): 24–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-197x-2020-6-4-24-47.
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This article examines restaurant menus as one of the components of the restaurant discourse. Any menu provides a great material for studying the linguistic and cultural features of discourse participants and the specifics of the language landscape in the city. Two restaurant menus in France (of the restaurant “La Tartine” in Albi) and in Russia (of the restaurant “Chum” in Tyumen) are considered with the aim of searching pragmatic dominants in this type of text. The research is based upon contextual, structural, semantic, and functional analysis of the main menu, children’s menu, and business lunch menu, among others, using the cognitive-pragmatic and linguistic and cultural approaches. Having taken into account the linguistic properties, the authors developed the structural scheme of a modern restaurant. The authors came to the conclusion that the semantics of dish names directly depends on the historical and cultural context, the elements of which often play the role of attractors and perform a pragmatic function. The regional component, revealed both in the composition of the dish and in its name, comes as a pragmatic dominant, influencing the consumer both implicitly (“La Tartine”) and explicitly (“Chum”). Any menu text has three main functions: informative. pragmatic, and communicative. Hybridity seems to be an integral feature of the text of the regional menu due to the ongoing cultural integration, which is reflected, among other things, in the nomination of dishes. The structure of any menu is subordinated to its pragmatic function (a strict structure for the main menu, simplified for a business lunch menu). The name of the dish comes as an attractor; the ingredients of the dish could be regarded as semantic components. Therefore, they can be considered as the general pragmatic dominant for regional restaurants both in France and Russia.
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Tawfiq Bataineh, Mohamed. "Linguistic and Pragmatic Devices in King Abdullah’s Speech: A Political Discourse Analysis." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 2 (2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.2p.40.
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This article investigates a speech delivered by King Abdullah of Jordan at Oxford University. The study is carried out on the basis of political discourse analysis. The researcher commences by outlining the growth of concept of discourse, and elucidating features of political discourse. At a later stage, the scrutiny deals with the analysis of linguistic and pragmatic devices which are utilised in the speech. This paper has revealed those features that are employed in the discourse; to be precise, these are: the use of first person deixis, metaphor as a rhetoric figure, repetition, term choice, and the pragmatic use of language. Eventually, the text analysis demonstrates that the King’s speech can be envisaged as a political discourse whose structure is convincing and influential. The researcher has proved that the speech is rich in linguistic elements which are certainly indispensable in language of politics.
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Striuk, N. V. "Inscriptions on clothing as an object of linguistic studies." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 3 (341) (2021): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2021-3(341)-43-50.
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Clothing performs not only the typical protective and utilitarian functions, but also becomes a means of communication. This position is particularly evident in garment with inscriptions and prints. The growing popularity of such textile fabrics causes the study of the typology of inscriptions on clothing from a linguistic standpoint. The purpose of the work is to determine the main approaches to the study of inscriptions on clothing in modern science in general and linguistics in particular. It has been determined that within the framework of linguistics, inscriptions on clothing are considered in the context of the communicative-pragmatic paradigm. However, there is no unified approach to the interpretation of this linguistic phenomenon, some researchers define it as a separate genre or subgenre of a particular discourse, others – as a new type of media. As a result of the study, it has been established that inscriptions on clothing are characterized by certain linguistic features (use of abbreviations and numbers, prevalence of simple sentences and elliptical constructions, use of colloquialisms, youth slang and puns, specific style of writing, use of imperatives and intertextuality) and perform various functions (communicative, regulatory, informative-representative, expressive-pragmatic, epistemological, aesthetic). Though most modern linguists agree that inscriptions on clothing function as a means of communication, the problems of using the appropriate term (inscription, slogan, message) and studying inscriptions not only on T-shirts, but also on other types of clothing remain unsolved.
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Komorowska, Ewa, and Anna Ohrimovich. "The compliment as a speech act in Russian: A lexical-pragmatic study." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 15/1 (December 18, 2018): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2018.1.03.
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The aim of the paper is to identify the linguistic exponents of Russian compliments. The examples which will be analyzed come from contemporary Russian.
 We will consider direct and indirect compliments, paying attention to such phenomena as presupposition and implicature as well as to the pragmatic functions of utterances. An analysis of communication strategies will allow us to present the specific features and role of compliments in linguistic communication in Russia.
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Gorobtsov, Evgeny V., and Peter J. Mitchell. "Translation features of media articles about COVID-19 in Chinese in the linguo-pragmatic aspect." Neophilology, no. 27 (2021): 453–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2021-7-27-453-459.
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In the age of information, media language takes on special importance. Its continuous development is linked primarily to the evolution of information transfer technologies, which pro-vide media language a special role as a model of national language in the information space. Me-dia speech influences language norms, tastes and preferences of native speakers more than official, academic or artistic speech. The study of media texts as a result of speech immersed in a specific social context may help to examine in greater detail the basic principles of certain spheres of life. This, in addition to considering the translation of media articles and its linguistic and pragmatic features, can form the basis for further linguistic research, and additionally is especially relevant in light of the global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work the linguistic and pragmatic translation features of media texts were considered on the basis of media texts on COVID-19 in Chinese. By analyzing these articles, data on the structure and characteristics of me-dia texts and media language are proposed, which can help to delve deeper into the specifics of media language and the translation of media texts; analysis of the translation of media articles from Chinese into Russian is also conducted.
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Lusini, Gianfrancesco. "Mohammed Ali, ʿƎmanini (“Trust me”): Linguistic features of a novel in Tigre". Aethiopica 10 (18 червня 2012): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.10.1.193.
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The novel ʿƎmanini (“Trust me”) by Mohammed Ali Ibrahim Mohammed (born 1966) is the first work written in Tigre by a native speaker. This is a true literary and linguistic experiment, which will greatly enrich our knowledge of the Tǝgrāyǝt grammar and vocabulary, specifically its little known variant spoken among the Beni ʿAmǝr. Several phonetic, morphological, syntactical and lexical peculiarities of the text are here examined in order to reveal whether they are dictated by linguistic constraints (lexico-semantic, grammatical or pragmatic), or have been chosen by the author as stylistic devices for reasons of expressiveness. Passages of ʿƎmanini are here published, translated and commented.
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Bekkozhanova, Gulnar Hismetollaevna, Saule Askarovna Askarova, Fatima Zylpykarovna Mamedova, and Gulmaria Turysbekovna Ospanova. "LEXICO-SEMANTIC AND FUNCTIONAL PECULIARITIES OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE AS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION." EurasianUnionScientists 3, no. 7(76) (2020): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/esu.2413-9335.2020.3.76.909.
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The article considers the communicative-pragmatic approach to the study of business discourse, analyzes the relationship between the business and the Internet space, reveals the genre specificity of blogs and the peculiarities of business discourse. The intentional base of business discourse is the struggle for power, which predetermines its main functions and methods of their implementation, speech acts, strategies and tactics. The goal of business discourse is not to describe, but to convince, having awakened intentions in the addressee, to give ground for persuasion and induce to action, in which the manipulative orientation of business discourse is manifested. Speech integration, orientation and aggression are widely used in accordance with the illocutionary purpose of expressing intentionality. Discourse is political when it accompanies a political act in a political setting. It has both common language functions and characteristic features of business discourse. The most important functions of social control and the legitimization of power can be considered, since it is they who have manipulative influence on the public, thereby achieving the main goal business discourse - the possession of power and control of society. In this research discourse can be used in any forms of communication related to the sphere of language. Such a definition of discourse involves the study of political language material taking into account the cultural, spatial and temporal conditions of its existence, as well as socio-cultural and personal characteristics of its creators and authors. In this regard, the issues of discourse analysis, as the most influential on public consciousness and widespread in the business, identifying its linguistic and extra-linguistic features are highlighted today, which requires to the system-forming signs of discourse, its units, basic concepts and functions prove the topicality of our research. Practical part identifies the main lexico-semantic, stylistic-syntactic and pragmatic features of modern business discourse in websites and mass business. It deals with a description of the functional and pragmatic capabilities of lexical and stylistic means in posts in political in websites and mass business, analyzes the pragmatic potential of these units and determines the range of their communicative and pragmatic functions. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that it considers the features of the web-site discourse from semantic, stylistic and communicative-pragmatic aspect, which will further deepen and expand the special knowledge in the conceptual world view of the English-speaking community and their fixation on the linguistic map. The purpose of the research work is to consider the most effective language means of representing the communicative and pragmatic potential of business discourse in web-sites and mass business. In the achievement of the main purpose of the study, the following tasks were set: - to characterize the phenomenon of discourse as a linguistic phenomenon; - to consider the specifics of the linguistic picture of the world in the framework of business discourse; - to identify the features of the functional, mainly linguo-cultural and stylistic peculiarities business discourse, reflecting business discourse in web-sites and mass business; - to stablish the general conditions for the productivity of lexical and stylistic and syntactic means in website discourse.
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Magaña, Dalia. "Modality across genres in Spanish as a heritage language." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 34, no. 1 (2021): 171–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.18048.mag.
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Abstract Writers’ use of modality, an interpersonal linguistic resource commonly used for expressing probability, reveals key information about their claims. Most research on modality addresses L2 English learners, leaving a gap in research in advanced language development in other languages. This paper addresses this gap by studying how heritage language (HL) speakers of Spanish express doubt and probability in Spanish and how the lexicogrammatical features they use across genres reveal how they express these meanings. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and pragmatics, this study examines modality in 125 texts written in Spanish by HL students in the U.S., including narratives, expositions, article reviews, personal responses, and research papers. The results reveal that students use the most modality resources in personal responses and the least in reviews. This work offers insights about the interpersonal resources writers choose to express their argumentative stance and the socio-pragmatic competence in writing among HL students.
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Muzychuk, Tatyana, and Anna Litovkina. "Image in Media Landscape: a Linguistic Discourse Portrait." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 4 (2019): 839–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(3).839-843.
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The review is a critical response to the monograph «Image advertorial as phenomenon of the contemporary media landscape» by L.G. Yegorova. The monograph makes a deep linguistic discourse analysis of the notion of media text, and shows relevant category features and ontological properties of image advertorial. The work is a coherent inter-disciplinary research, where the genre of image advertorial in Russian mass media discourse is studied from the position of linguo-sociological culturology and psycholinguistics, and from a communicative-pragmatic point of view.
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Golovanova, D. A. "THE FEATURES OF THE SEMANTICS OF NEGATION IN DIPLOMATIC TEXT." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 6(33) (December 28, 2013): 269–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2013-6-33-269-274.
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One of the crucial points of the article is an overview of the development of negation in linguistics which is considered to be one of the fundamental categories. The article explores the change in the paradigms of understanding negation in linguistics: from the structural approach to the cognitive one. The author presents such approaches as structuralism, the pragmatic conception and the cognitive approach. Besides, the peculiarities of functioning and the performance of the category are revealed in the article. Particular attention is paid to the cognitive approach as one of the main trends of modern linguistics. The focus on negation from the cognitive perspective allows to analyze both its functions in diplomatic text (some of them are represented in the article) and its dependence on external factors. Being a universal category, negation is reflected in all types of discourse, and the article concentrates on diplomatic discourse as the least studied one regarding its peculiarities from the linguistic perspective. On writing the particular features of negation from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, the author represents the analysis of oral diplomatic text and reveals the reciprocal conditionality of the semantic and formal aspects of negation. Also the dependence of its semantics on the opposition “my – foreigner’s” is presented.
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Shiryaeva, Tatiana Aleksandrovna, Alexander Yurievich Bagiyan, and Amaliya Robertovna Arakelova. "Linguistic Representation of Professional Values in Popular Science Discourse of IT: Axiological and Pragmatic Perspective." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 7 (2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.7p.52.
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The article examines how professional values acquire linguistic form and spread via the modern discourse of Information Technology. As an extremely dynamic sphere of human activity, the industry of information technology reflects the processes that take place in the society and influence the way people interact, share information, process data and implement knowledge. As a result, the language that is employed for describing, informing, reporting and promoting IT products and ideas inevitably reflects the most important concepts that are typical of this sphere, i.e., values. The article explores the way the discourse of IT is shaped and linguistically conditioned by a certain professional value system and its features. This is the area that has not been thoroughly explored from the standpoint of linguistics, but which, however, requires substantial research due to apparent societal and scientific relevance. The study of popular science discourse as presented in the biggest technology magazines revealed that values determine the language means, modality of the texts, communication aims, all of which are set by the addresser. Moreover, when viewed from the perspective of linguistics, values are found to depend on the language both for the cognitive and pragmatic purposes. Identification and interpretation of the most prominent values of the popular science discourse of IT is aimed to bridge socio-cognitive, linguistic and pragmatic aspects of these entities: an interdisciplinary study that has not been conducted before.
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Мкртычян, Светлана Викторовна. "THE PRAGMATIC ASPECT OF ANIMACY/NON-ANIMACY GRAMMATICAL CATEGOTY." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, no. 2(69) (June 1, 2021): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vtfilol/2021.2.045.
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Обсуждается лингвистический статус грамматической категории одушевлённости/неодушевлённости, её формальные и содержательные показатели; анализируются случаи, демонстрирующие колебание грамматических маркеров, с учётом интерпретативного потенциала возможностей системы языка и прагматических установок homo loquens. The linguistic status of animacy/non-animacy as a grammatical category is discussed, as well as its formal and semantic features. The cases are analyzed, where the grammatical markers of this category undergo fluctuations conditioned by the language system potential and pragmatic attitude of a homo loquens.
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Larionova, M. V. "Slogan in the Spanish political discourse: cognitive, linguistic and pragmatic dimension." Philology at MGIMO 23, no. 3 (2020): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2020-3-23-121-130.
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The article explores the cognitive, linguistic and pragmatic potential of Spanish political slogans as an integral part of political communication. The relevance of the investigation, carried out as part of a comprehensive methodology combining discursive, pragmalinguistic and content analysis, is determined by the need for a profound study of discursive mechanisms of influence on public consciousness and behavior, as well as ways to recognize and resist manipulative tactics. Slogans represent a variety of discursive texts and operate in the communicative-pragmatic contexts of “Protests” and “Elections”. Their illocutionary characterization is determined by the discursive situation: for protest slogans, demand dominates as the main speech act, while for electoral slogans, the main task is the desire to attract voters, to force them to vote for a particular candidate or party. Due to the linguistic, pragmatic and structural features, slogans influence the conceptual picture of the world of the electorate and serve as a mechanism for controlling public opinion and behavior. The addresser creates a slogan with regard to its perception by a recipient. Metaphors and other language techniques serve as linguistic means to create a desired perception vector and behavior algorithm, as well as cognitively integrate images and symbols, which often become precedents for the national language community.
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Maček, Dora. "Relativization in Swedish." Linguistica 27, no. 1 (1987): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.27.1.99-109.
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Relativization is a widespread syntactic and pragmatic strategy, found in such di verse languages as Arabic and Korean, Nahuatl and German (The Chicago Which Which Hunt 1972). It is a process of modifier formation producing relative clauses (RC), which can serve several pragmatic functions, such as supplying new informa tion, emphasis, cohesion etc. RCs have been much studied and they still offer intere sting linguistic insights. Alongside the obviously common features many differences in detail can be observed even among closely related languages. The differences as well as the similarities can be of a syntactic or a stylistic nature. Out of the many in teresting aspects of RC structure and usage a closer look will be taken only at the choice of the linking word and some rules governing its place and function.
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GUERRIERO, A. M. SONIA, YURIKO OSHIMA-TAKANE, and YOKO KURIYAMA. "The development of referential choice in English and Japanese: a discourse-pragmatic perspective." Journal of Child Language 33, no. 4 (2006): 823–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030500090600763x.
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The present research investigated whether children's referential choices for verb arguments are motivated by pragmatic features of discourse referents across different developmental stages, not only for children learning null argument languages but also for those learning overt argument languages. In Study 1, the form (null, pronominal, or lexical) and referential status (given or new) of verb arguments were systematically analysed in six English-speaking and six Japanese-speaking children and their mothers when the children were at 1;9 and 3;0. In Study 2, non-linguistic pragmatic correlates (pointing, reaching, moving, making a head motion, or purposeful gaze direction toward a referent) were analysed in addition to the form and referential status of arguments at each of four linguistic periods between MLU 1·00 and 4·00 in two English-speaking and two Japanese-speaking children and their mothers. The results revealed that, when both linguistic and non-linguistic referential behaviours were considered, the English-speaking children showed patterns consistent with language-universal as well as language-specific discourse-pragmatic principles by 2;0 (between MLU 2·00 and 2·99), whereas the Japanese-speaking children did not show these patterns even as late as 3;0 (MLU 4·00 and above). Results also indicated that the children who were exposed to more consistent discourse-pragmatic referential patterns from their input tended to show these patterns earlier than those exposed to inconsistent patterns. Together these findings suggest that both the referential status of discourse referents as well as parental input predict children's referential choices across typologically different languages.
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Ivanova, Irina N. "Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts." Media Linguistics 7, no. 4 (2020): 501–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.409.
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A number of approaches to media texts tend to apply an interactive model to communication, and the texts are seen are intrinsically dialogic, relying on the receivers’ subjective interpretation of meaning and activation of intertextual relations. In addition, media texts are increasingly used as material for linguistic analysis with the aim to reveal how their linguistic potential is utilized by journalists to convey messages and ideas, and influence the audience. The paper discusses the pragmatic functions of interrogatives and the way they are realized in media text, more specifically in newspaper articles’ headlines, leads and bodies excerpted from British and American online media over a period of two months. The analysis is mapped against previous research of interrogatives in the field of pragmatics and medialinguistics. The main findings show that interrogatives in headlines realize a range of pragmatic roles when used on their own or as part of paratactic or hypotactic complexes. These roles are closely dependent on their syntactic and semantic features and can range from attracting and focusing readers’ attention, to urging readers to think about issues, look for certain types of answers in the text, or think of their own answers or reactions. Headlines can be expanded or clarified in the sub-headings, lead and main body of the article. In the main body, interrogatives help to structure and authenticate writer’s dialogue with the audience, making the narrative or argumentation more emphatic, and soliciting active commitment to issues, feedback and empathy from the audience. Furthermore, some topics of high public interest and importance might lead to an increase in the number of questions in media texts. Further research of larger and more varied thematically material might throw light on the way different topics affect the frequency and distribution of pragmatic roles of interrogatives in media texts.
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House, Juliane. "Translation Quality Assessment: Linguistic Description versus Social Evaluation." Traduction 46, no. 2 (2002): 243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/003141ar.
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Abstract The paper first reports on three different approaches to translation evaluation which emanate from different concepts of “meaning” and its role in translation. Secondly, a functional-pragmatic model of translation evaluation is described, which features a distinction between different types of translations and versions, and stresses the importance of using a “cultural filter” in one particular type of translation. Thirdly, the influence of English as a worldwide lingua franca on translation processes is discussed, and finally the important distinction between linguistic analysis and social judgement in translation evaluation is introduced, and conclusions for the practice of assessing the quality of a translation are drawn.
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Marín, María José, and Camino Rea Rizzo. "Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study." Quaderns de Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics 22, no. 22 (2018): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/qf.22.11307.
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The features of specialised languages have been extensively described by scholars in the literature. Amongst them, Enrique Alcaraz’s work stands out as an exhaustive and comprehensive description of EPAP at all linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. This research aims to provide a bottom-up assessment of his description on a lexical level through the implementation of corpus-based techniques on two specialised corpora of legal and telecommunications English. The results support Alcaraz’s portrayal as regards term usage, the relevance of sub-technical vocabulary, the peculiarities of Latin single and multi word terms in legal English and the significant presence and usage of abbreviations in telecommunications English.
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Larina, Tatiana, Vladimir Ozyumenko, and Douglas Mark Ponton. "Persuasion strategies in media discourse about Russia: Linguistic ambiguity and uncertainty." Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 15, no. 1 (2019): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2019-0002.
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Abstract The paper explores the role of the media in influencing public opinion from an inferential-pragmatic perspective. It presents preliminary results of the study focused on representation of Russia in Western newspapers. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 1995,2001; van Dijk 2009) and media linguistics (Fowler 1991, Richardson 2007, among others) the study centres around the linguistic means of construing ambiguity/uncertainty, viewed as a strategy of persuasion. We mostly focus on the semantics of certain groups of words and other textual features such as indefinite pronouns, epistemic modality, passive voice, present perfect tense, interrogative headlines and some other tools used in media texts to construe ambiguity which, in its turn, arguably aims at influencing public opinion. We also look at presupposition, information structure, evaluation and transitivity. Though we have limited our study to the English language sources (The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, news websites of the BBC, Reuters, Express, Politico and Fox News, among others), we are not suggesting that linguistic ambiguity is a feature of Western, rather than Russian, or other languages' media.
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Sawaki (SCOPUS ID: 18635502400), Yusuf Willem. "MENEROPONG TIPOLOGI BAHASA-BAHASA DI PAPUA: SUATU TINJUAN SINGKAT." Linguistik Indonesia 36, no. 2 (2019): 129–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v36i2.79.
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Tanah Papua, both the Indonesia provinces of Papua and West Papua, is the most diverse linguistic region that has the highest number of indigenous languages in Indonesia. Out of 760s languages in Indonesia, Tanah Papua has about 270s languages. The diversity of languages are not only about the number of languages but also about the linguistic features. Languages is Tanah Papua are divided into two major groups, which are Austronesian and non-Austronesian (known as Papuan) languages. Both major linguistic groups contribute diverse linguistic features ranging from phonological system, word, phrase, clause and sentence structures, as well as diversity of semantic and pragmatic structures. The linguistic diversity is also determined by a contact language history in the region that has been occurred for centuries, especially in the regions of Jayapura and the Bird’s Head of New Guinea. Although the region is linguistically rich, not many linguistic reseach has been doing in the region. We therefore do not have a comprehensive understanding about languages in Papua yet. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief description about grammatical features of languages in Tanah Papua.
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Makarova, Alexandra. "Ironic Content Features in the Orthodox Media Discourse." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 4 (52) (December 16, 2020): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2020-52-4-71-86.
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The religious communication is the most ancient of human communication
 types. The pragmatic linguistics as well as rhetoric shows a special attitude
 to this special type of discourse. Today the Internet text with its unlimited abilities
 is being in the focus of linguists’ attention. That is why the orthodox journalists
 are covering not only print media but also the Internet that helps to widen
 the sphere of influence on the people’s minds and souls.
 The analyses show that the media context of the Orthodox sites (such as
 The Orthodox people laugh and etc.) includes humorous publications that prove
 the necessity of studying peculiarities of religious communication and humorous
 texts in orthodox sites. The integrative approach including content analyses,
 discourse and linguistic cultural methods helps the author to come to a conclusion
 that orthodox media texts are distinguished by intertextuality, hypertextuality, creolism, and the authors want to influence the addressee in the most effective way. To define the communicative task, the missionary function should be taken into account which is peculiar to the religious discourse.
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Comrie, Bernard, and Raoul Zamponi. "Resurrecting the Linguistic Past." Cadernos de Linguística 2, no. 1 (2021): 01–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id339.
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Akabea belongs to the Great Andamanese family, one of the two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands. All that remains today of this family is a handful of “rememberers” of so-called Present-day Great Andamanese, based on the language furthest removed from Akabea. None of the traditional languages was the subject of professional linguistic documentation or analysis. However, two government officials collected extensive material, with Akabea being the language most thoroughly treated. Neither was a trained linguist, and one might wonder whether anything reliable can be derived from their documentation. We have worked in detail with the Akabea material, and conclude that while there are obvious gaps (e.g. in the phonetics), the overall picture is that of a very consistent and elaborate grammatical and lexical structure. We present two typologically unusual features of Akabea. One relates to the conceptual basis of the language’s lexicon, which makes extensive use of somatic (body-part) prefixes, e.g. Akabea aka- ‘mouth’. These are sometimes used literally (as in the word for ‘mouth’), sometimes by semantic extension (e.g. in words relating to food and speech). The other concerns an unusual grammatical feature of the language, namely verb root ellipsis. In English, it is possible to omit verbs under appropriate pragmatic conditions, e.g. in response to Is he reading? one can answer Yes, he is, with omission of the whole word reading, but not *Yes, he is -ing, with omission of just the root read. Precisely this bizarre non-existent English type is what is attested in Akabea.
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Oleksandrivna Kravchenko, Nina, and Kateryna Andriivna Bondarenko. "Lingual Means of Imperative in the Lecture and Sermon Discourses." Arab World English Journal, no. 3 (November 15, 2020): 171–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/elt3.15.
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The research aims to reveal the peculiarities of the linguistic means of imperative utterances which function in the lecture and sermon discourses. They encourage students/parishioners to engage in the learning process fully. The following tasks were formulated: to categorize imperative utterances in the view of characteristic features of the mentioned discourses; to characterize the lexical-syntactic peculiarities of each type of imperative phrases. The object of the research is an oral English-language institutional discourse of two kinds – academic (lecture) and religious (sermon). The subject of the study is the lexical and syntactic arrangement of imperative utterances in the lecture and sermon discourses. To achieve the aim, both general scientific and unique linguistic research methods found application. Conclusions of the study are as follows: the functioning of imperative utterances in the sermon and lecture discourse is determined by such linguistic and extralinguistic factors as the expressiveness/implicitness of the imperative constructions, the syntactic structure of the imperative constructions, the communicative-pragmatic orientation, and the targeted nature of the order/ localization of the imperative construction in the compositional text structure. In our work, direct and indirect explicit constructions, aimed at an immediate action, are viewed as operational imperative statements. According to the communicative-pragmatic orientation and considering the temporal signs, we distinguish two main types of motivation: simultaneous and post-communicative. The communicative-pragmatic orientation criterion also makes it possible to single out constructions intended to induce physical/mental impact (in lectures) and spiritual/mental impact (in sermons). The prospect of further investigation is studying non-verbal features of lecture and sermon discourses.
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Clarke, D. S. "Sign Levels Synopsis." Contemporary Pragmatism 15, no. 1 (2018): 95–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01501006.
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This Tractatus-style sequence of propositions describes logical features of natural language discourse, pre-linguistic levels of signs interpreted in associative learning and animal communication, and the specialized discourses of the institutions of science, religion, law, politics, and the arts. Its comprehensive scope is designed to help overcome the compartmentalization of philosophy into its branches of epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. The general perspective is that of pragmatic naturalism as developed by the classical pragmatists Peirce, James, Schiller, and Dewey. Central to pragmatism is its emphasis on the use of practical inferences combining descriptive and expressive premisses with prescriptive “ought” conclusions guiding conduct. I argue that by making such inferences its focus, pragmatism enables contemporary philosophy to offset the effects of social specialization.
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Ifukor, Presley. "Linguistic Marketing in “… a marketplace of ideas”." Pragmatics and Society 2, no. 1 (2011): 110–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.2.1.06ifu.
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The virtual community under consideration is called the Nigerian Village Square (NVS), ‘… a marketplace of ideas’. As an online discussion forum, NVS combines the features of listservs and newsgroups with a more elegant and user-friendly interface. While computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies augment political discourse in established democracies, new media and mobile technologies create avenues for a virtual sphere among Nigerians. Therefore, the ideal virtual sphere guarantees equal access to all connected netizens, equal right for all languages in netizens’ linguistic repertoire, and it fosters democratic deliberation through policy debates, public dialogues and ‘online polylogues’. By linguistic marketing is meant discourse as a vehicle for ‘promotional acts’ and for ‘selling’ particular cultures and ideologies to multicultural and multilingual readers/audiences. One interpretation of this is in terms of asserting language rights and linguistic equality. The use of Nigerian languages with Nigerian Pidgin online is promotional and for existential negotiation. This results in language mixture which is an instantiation of freedom of speech, freedom of switch and freedom to switch. The underlying pragmatic motivation for top-down language mixture and alternation in Nigerian virtual discourse is attention-getting with the aim of inducing an interdiscursive writer-reader cognitive as well as communicative interaction. Other pragmatic functions of code switching discussed in the paper include allusive textuality, amusing phaticity, anticipated interactivity, affective expressivity and audience affiliation or alienation, among others. Thus, intertextuality is an explanatory technique for investigating previously unexplored phenomena in digital code switching.
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Salomon, Meghan, and Gregory Ward. "Semantic/pragmatic factors affecting the salience of transfer verb arguments." Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 2 (June 12, 2017): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4042.
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Rohde et al. (2006) showed that, for transfer verbs, the salience of the recipient argument is a function of the particular coherence relation posited by participants. Using a priming paradigm with transfer verbs and occupation-denoting NPs in isolated sentences, we find that participants are sensitive to the lexical properties of the transfer verb itself as measured by the relative salience of the associated transfer verb arguments. Alternatively, using a sentence completion paradigm—a more strategic task in which participants are guided by discourse-level features—we find participants are sensitive instead to the coherence relations of the relevant event, replicating Rohde et al. (2006). Our findings support the notion that coherence relations drive the interpretation of multi-sentence discourses while sentences considered in isolation are guided by particular features of the linguistic context.