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Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ...
Nous and On in Semi-formal French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-16)
French linguists have long noted the substitution of the indefinite pronoun on for the 1st person plural pronoun nous, in both formal and informal situations. Studies of informal conversation have found this replacement ...
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ...
Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis of Negotiated Identities in Ethnographic Research on the Language Classroom
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
This study examines interactional entanglements that occurred during ethnographer-participant interactions in a language classroom. It draws upon Goffman's notion of framing to analyze how research participants use deixis ...
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(2013-06-07)
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...
The Locus and Nature of the Object-Extracted Relative Clause Penalty
(CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 2013-03-22)
Talking To Strangers--a Sociolinguistic Experiment: Variation In Initial Dyadic Interactions Between Spanish-speakers In Early 21st Century Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal ...
A Corpus-based Analysis Of Discourse Anaphora In English And Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach
(Linguistics, 2013-07-22)
This dissertation explores discourse anaphora in English and Korean by using a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach with corpus-based data. Very little study of Korean discourse anaphora has yet taken place at the inter-sentential ...
The Segments And Tones Of Soyaltepec Mazatec
(Linguistics, 2012-04-11)
This dissertation describes the segments and tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico virtually undescribed in the literature with the exception of Pike (1956). The preliminary work done by ...