The article presents a new view on Chinese modal verbs as part of speech. Based the typology language, authors analyzed according to their functional-syntactic, formal-morphological, and semantic features in order importance. discusses position operators sentence other characteristics. For instance, have no impact object cannot independently form sentences or combine with grammemes. Therefore, ...

The paper examines the suggestive potential of political speeches state leaders. author argues that greatest addresses given at turning points in history demonstrate a programming effect and, consequently, are intended as texts with features. current study proves rhythm is essential feature text. complex phenomenon built on balanced alternation or repetition certain elements (formal and semanti...

IN RECENT years the anthropologists Whorf (12), Lee (9), and Hoijer (6) have put forward the view that language is a determinant of perception and thought. The nature of the determining influence exerted by the vocabulary of a language is quite clear (1), but it is less easy to see how the grammatical features of a language can affect cognition. Yet it is just the grammatical differences betwee...

Disciplinary variation in language use is one of the focal topics academic discourse research. This paper critically reviews extant literature studies on close relationship between and disciplinarity, an attempt to clarify different perspectives, both theoretical methodological, exploring discipline-specific nature discourses. points out that previous mainly adopted a form-first approach analyz...

2 Abstract A series of experiments investigated whether naming latencies for homophones (e.g., /nΛn/) are a function of specific-word frequency (i.e., the frequency of nun) or a function of cumulative-homophone frequency (i.e., the sum of the frequencies of nun and none). Specific-word but not cumulative-homophone frequency affected picture-naming latencies. This result was obtained in two lang...