Pronominal Selection and Its Functions in Presidential Speeches

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

Stress, pauses, pronominal types and pronominal functions in Danish spoken data

In this paper we present a study of the relation between types of third personal singular neuter pronoun and their functions in Danish spoken data where stress information is marked so that personal and demonstrative occurrences of the pronouns can be distinguished. This study confirms that there are language specific differences in the way various types of pronoun are used to refer to abstract...

Fitting Ranked English and Spanish Letter Frequency Distribution in U.S. and Mexican Presidential Speeches

The limited range in its abscissa of ranked letter frequency distributions causes multiple functions to fit the observed distribution reasonably well. In order to critically compare various functions, we apply the statistical model selections on ten functions, using the texts of U.S. and Mexican presidential speeches in the last 1-2 centuries. Dispite minor switching of ranking order of certain...

Language for Winning Hearts and Minds: Verb Aspect in U.S. Presidential Campaign Speeches for Engaging Emotion

How does language influence the emotions and actions of large audiences? Functionally, emotions help address environmental uncertainty by constraining the body to support adaptive responses and social coordination. We propose emotions provide a similar function in language processing by constraining the mental simulation of language content to facilitate comprehension, and to foster alignment o...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...