Abstract From a conversation-analytic perspective, this article analyzes three types of verbal negation in Korean, which shape requests for confirmation (RfCs) into distinctive interactional resources. The pre-verbal ( an ) RfC emerges the context where recipient is prompted to see “fittedness” its confirmable as referencing “allusive” aspect his/her situated domain, inferentially formulated by...

In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. show that inflected reflexives trigger co-varying person as DP/nominalization subjects and complements of postpositions, which appears to contradict the generalization on anaphor effect (AAE). At same time, reciprocals induce 3p external targets. These data are puzzling two aspects. First, it is unclear how derive ...

This research focuses on the problem of correlation between discursive modality and illocutionary force - with substantiating variations in as a pragmatic basis for scale-paradigm deontic modality, influencing binding international instruments. Guided by criterion explicitness implicitness markers, well their localization performative or propositional part, paper categorizes five classes commis...

With recently widespread use of mobile phones and SMS communication in Iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. With this in mind, the p...

This paper focuses on two corpora of headlines and subheadings from news articles about the coronavirus, published in China Daily (CD) The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) between January 7 February 8, 2020. Applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly nominalization framework (Halliday, 1997/2004) Appraisal (Martin White, 2005), explor...

nouns: A neural network approach. In Proceedings of the 20thAnnual Conference of the Cognitive Scien ce Society (pp. 1036-1042). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

The interpretation of nominalized expressions in English poses several problems. First, it must be explained how their meanings are derived from the meanings of the underlying verbs. Second, different forms of nominalizations differ in their semantic behaviour. Finally, aspectual restrictions which exist for ingofnominals must be explained. The solution to be proposed is based on the assumption...

This research is a qualitative using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis which aims to; (1) revealing the form of language power women legislators in South Sulawesi political through vocabulary features, (2) forms grammatical (3) features text structure. The data this study are natural texts transcripts women's legislators' speeches that contain construction power. sources for phras...

previous research has identified the nominal group as the most distinctive feature of the research article title. in contrast, the findings reported in this paper suggest theme/rheme is the dominant structure in title text. theme/rheme structures order and tie nominal groups in titles. when a title starts with a methodological term the first position nominal group acts as a theme marker. thus, ...