Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional ...

Tense in Adjuncts Part 2: Temporal Adverbial Clauses

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...

The Status Change of Japanese Temporal Adverbial Clauses in SLA

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

the american dream in three plays by eugene oneill, tennessee williams, and lorraine hansberry

این مطالعه به نقد و بررسی مفهوم اسطوره ی رویای امریکایی در سه نمایشنامه ی قرن بیستم امریکایی می پردازد، که این نمایشنامه ها عبارتند از: the iceman cometh (مرد یخین می آید) نوشته ی یوجین اونیل، 1940؛ desirea streetcar named (اتوبوسی به نام هوس) نوشته ی تنسی ویلیامز، 1947؛ و in the sun raisin a (انگور خشکیده در آفتاب) ، نوشته ی لورین هنزبری، 1958. هدف از این بررسی، ابتدا شناخت مفهوم رویای امری...