The expression lip̄nē, literally "to the face of," is commonly translated as "before." In combination with root ngp ("inflict/defeat"), this leads to awkward English translations; e.g., "Israel was defeated before Philistines" (1 Sam 4:2). What exactly role of Philistines in event? recent years, some scholars have used grammaticalization theory argue that lip̄nē context an Agent marker: by Philis...

Language politeness is a critical element to be incorporated in communication for its worth across social status, power, or position. In this study, WhatsApp text conversations between students and lecturers were utilised analysing strategies used by the students. Purposive sampling which involved texts from two classes of English Oral Presentation (ELC590) subject was conducted messages thirty...

Accounts of the scalar inference from 'some X-ed' to 'not all X-ed' are central to the debate between contemporary theories of conversational pragmatics. An important contribution to this debate is to identify contexts that decrease the endorsement rate of the inference. We suggest that the inference is endorsed less often in face-threatening contexts, i.e., when X implies a loss of face for th...

Attention is believed to be biased toward threatening objects or faces. Therefore, we tested whether angry face stimuli would capture attention even when they are irrelevant to the task. Observers searched for a neutral face with a tilted nose. On some trials, the target was shown together with an irrelevant angry or happy face and we measured the N2pc (an electrophysiological marker of attenti...

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A threatening facial expression is a potent social sign of hostility or dominance. During the past 20 years, photographs of threatening faces have been increasingly included as stimuli in studies with socially anxious participants, based on the hypothesis that a threatening face is especially salient to people with fears of social interaction or negative evaluation. The purpose of this literatu...

Among a crowd of distractor faces, threatening or angry target faces are identified more quickly and accurately than are nonthreatening or happy target faces, a finding known as the "face in the crowd effect." Two perceptual explanations of the effect have been proposed: (1) the "target orienting" hypothesis (i.e., threatening targets orient attention more quickly than do nonthreatening targets...

This research analyses the type of figurative language (sarcasm or mock; impoliteness is used to perform face threatening acts with use politeness strategies that are obviously insincere and thus remain surface relizations satire; desire precisely clear still an audience protest which intends be describe painful absurd situations foolish wicked persons groups as vividly possible ) in songs domi...