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Semiotic Perception and Dynamic Forms of Meaning
What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework of...
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Weak determinism and the computational consequences of interaction
Recent work has claimed that (non-tonal) phonological patterns are subregular (Heinz
2011a ,b ,2018 ; Heinz and Idsardi2013 ), occupying a delimited...
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Pausing and breathing while reading aloud: development from 2nd to 7th grade in French speaking children
Pauses when reading aloud play an essential role in reading and listening comprehension (for a review: Godde et al., 2020). Among the various types...
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Linguistic Markers of Affect and the Gender Dimension in Online Hate Speech
Language is not only a tool for information transfer but also a vehicle of the producer’s subjectivity which adds to the persuasive power of the...
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The effect of a reading aloud program on reading rate and reading prosody in a group of sixth-grade low-achievement, language-minority, and/or low-SES readers
The purpose of this study was to investigate if a group of sixth-grade low achievement language minority (LM) students’ reading skills could be...
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Language of Emotion
Nelson Mandela once said, ‘Because when you speak a language, English, well many people understand you, including Afrikaners, but when you speak...
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Selvon’s Stylistics: Self-Conscious Language Production in An Island Is a World
Samuel Selvon’s 1955 novel An Island Is a World portrays characters who intentionally alter the linguistic and prosaic features of their speech in...
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God, It’s Amazing the Junk People Will Buy! When a Construction Impacts Lexical Choices: The Case of Nouns in Concealed Exclamations
This chapter focuses on nouns occurring in NPs embedded in three exclamative constructions (It’s amazing the car he bought, You would not believe the...
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Dissonant Silence: Susan Sontag and the Aesthetics of Silence
With Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “The Aesthetics of Silence” as starting point, this chapter discusses what silence could mean in modern art. While...
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Conclusion
This work has been concerned with approaching Metaphor of Modality within an integrated cognitive-functional framework.
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Operationalizing the Role of Context in Language Variation: The Role of Perspective Alignment in the Spanish Imperfective Domain
We present a cognitively grounded analysis of the pattern of variationVariation that underlies the use of two aspectual markers in SpanishSpanish...
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You Hoboken! Semantics of an expressive label maker
‘You bastard’ is insulting because ‘bastard’ is an expletive, but what’s wrong with ‘You Hoboken’ or ‘You big wet noodle’? This paper explores the...
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Textual Emotivity and Literary (Im)Politeness
Against the backdrop that human emotion and (im)politeness are both cognitively and pragmatically related and that studies of (im)politeness have...
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From Form to Microgenesis. Toward a Dynamic Theory of Language Activity
The concept of form has been an epistemological obsession for the sciences of language. Defining the status of a linguistic form, as it presents...
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Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice
This chapter details the theoretical frameworks involved in the discourse study of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression. The study is...
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Directives and Politeness in SPICE-Ireland
Working from the perspective of Leech’s (The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014) modification to Blum-Kulka et al .’s...
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Intercultural Relationships
What is the language of love? In intercultural relationships, language is an important basis on which two people build intimacy. Taking the time to...
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Cognitive Semantics Against Creole Exceptionalism: On the Scope of Metonymy in the Lexicon of Nigerian Pidgin English
One of the claims of creole exceptionalism is that speakers of creole languages, because they have poorer cognitive abilities, use grammars and...
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Ettounsi and Tamazight Writing on Facebook: Oral Vernaculars or New Literacies
With the democratization of information and communication technology and access to Social Networking Sites (SNS) in post-revolutionary Tunisia, new...
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Some consideration on expressive audiovisual speech corpus acquisition using a multimodal platform
In this paper, we present a multimodal acquisition setup that combines different motion-capture systems. This system is mainly aimed for recording...
