Ad hoc properties and locations in Maltese by Gréte Dalmi

“…The present proposal combines Maienborn’s (2003, 2005a,b, 2011) discourse-semantic theory of copular sentences with Richardson’s (2001, 2007) analysis of non-verbal adjunct predicates in Russian, based on alternative states. …”
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Russian Non-Bolshevik Diplomacy and the Issue of International Recognition of the White Movement in 1918-1920 by E. M. Mironova

“…The article traces the evolving discourse of career diplomats considering this issue at different stages of the civil war. …”
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TROIS POÈMES DE STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ: A DEBUSSY-RAVEL COMPARISON by Attila FODOR

“…Even the third mélodies, based on different verses of Mallarmé’s late period (Éventail by Debussy and Sourgi de la croupe et du bond by Ravel), show at least one significant characteristic in common: unlike the former two conceived in a basically tonal context, they rather present an expansion of these limits toward the atonality, in a vague musical discourse, just in the spirit of the pronounced abstractness of the poems. …”
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES: ANALYZING THE PROPINQUITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS by MUBASSHIRU SALISU MOHAMMED

“…In order to carry out this work, data were obtained largely from secondary sources from books, articles journals, Nigerian constitution, published and unpublished materials available as well as internet sources and it was analysed through discourse analyses from different perspectives of disciplinary evolution, development, scope, boundary, research, theory and practice, interrelationship among social sciences, It has been discovered inter-alia that the study and practice of public administration has been significantly influenced and shaped by various social science disciplines like political science, law, sociology, psychology, economics as it incorporates various ideas, concepts and principles in terms of policy formulation, implementation, evaluation as well as general human resource management. …”
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Didactic strategy to contribute to the development of communicative competence in Health Psychology students by Ana María Molina Gómez, Angelina Roméu Escobar, Miriam Gutiérrez Escobar, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the cognitive, socio-cultural and communicative language teaching approach reveals the importance of syntactic speech closely related to semantic and pragmatic dimensions and aimed at understanding, analysis and construction of discourse. <strong>Objective:</strong> to design a didactic strategy that contributes to the development of communicative competence. …”
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The new media as monitors of democracy by Dumisani Moyo

“…What is clear is that these new forms of communication are fast eroding the monopoly of incumbent politicians over the communications landscape, undercutting the liberation discourse that has had a stranglehold on election processes, and signalling the possibility of more open political spaces where divergent views can coexist. …”
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The Ranking Argument - Challenging Favourable Comparative Rhetoric about Swiss Animal Welfare Law by Christian Rodriguez Perez, Nico Dario Müller, Kirsten Persson, David Martin Shaw

“…We conclude with some thoughts on how the ranking argument can and should be challenged in public discourse. …”
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Portuguese and Brazilian national cultures, organizational culture and trust: an analysis of impacts by Lúcio Flávio Renault de Moraes, Anderson de Souza Sant’Anna, Daniela Martins Diniz, Fátima Bayma de Oliveira

“…The reports of the interviews gave evidence of the relevance of a more effective management of cultural artefacts, in particular greater attention to the sharing of values, in order to foster the building of stronger bonds of trust and to stimulate cultural contexts more in tune with contemporary organizational discourse.…”
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Exploring factors for the introduction and implementation of quality assurance systems in selected higher education institutions in Tanzania by Evaristo Andreas Mtitu

“…Thus, this study contributes to broader discourse on QA in higher education by providing a contextual analysis of Tanzanian universities, offering practical solutions for other institutions facing similar challenges. …”
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Caring for Form: Ali Smith and Contemporary Refugee Life-Writing by Miriam Nandi

“…Instead of scrutinising the authority of the real-world author, it is worth redirecting the attention to the narrative discourse and the specific forms it takes. Drawing on Caroline Levine’s social formalism, the article investigates the interplay between political and aesthetic forms. …”
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Do they understand more? Turkish EFL speakers perception of sentence stress in English by Anita Buczek-Zawiła

“…It most typically signals details of an utterance information structure, but it also performs a contrastive or emphasizing function, thus expressing focus in the spoken discourse. In English and many other languages its location, while exhibiting certain regularities it additionally determined by extra relevant or relative information. …”
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Interrogating the Role of Language in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Zimbabwe by Nhlanhla Landan, Sindiso Zhou, Baba Tshotsho

“…We used Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the language of religious leaders in the narrative of women and abuse as reflected in the media. …”
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INFORMACIJOS VISUOMENĖS SAMPRATA: SENŲJŲ VYNMAIŠIŲ GNIAUŽTAI by Marius P. P. Šaulauskas

“…Second, that such an existential-axiological assumption is articulated along the lines of modern ideological discourse, i.e. in terms of mainstream liberal-socialdemocratic controversies. …”
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A Universal Story: Conversations with Richard Potts About Human Evolution Heritage by Camila Marinetti

“…My primary objective was to explore his role in advancing our understanding of humanity’s evolutionary heritage within the broader discourse on world heritage. The interview, conducted in Dr. …”
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Comparative analysis of interactional metadiscursive resources in academic writing by L2 and L1 English writers by Musa Al-Mudhaffari, Supyan Hussin, Imran Ho Abdullah

“…Interactional Metadicursive Resources (IMRs) are established as the most common rhetorical features that assist writers in achieving interaction with the discourse community. The purpose of this study was to compare the use of IMRs in research articles (RAs) authored by Yemeni L2 writers and L1 English writers, while also examining the extent to which both groups employ these resources to achieve persuasive purposes. …”
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HAYDENO WHITE’O NARATYVISTINIO-TROPOLOGINIO PROJEKTO RECEPCIJA IR KRITIKA by Vytautas Žemgulis

“…In his capital work Metahistory (1973) he advanced the radical innovative narrativistic project of historical discourse based on tropology. The theory received a lot of comments among scholars of different branches and trends in humanities. …”
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“Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together”?: the Crisis of the World Sports Movement in the Context of the Pandemic and the Problem of Racism by E. V. Khakhalkina, A. V. Munko

“…In recent years, sport reflects the most painful trends in social development, economics, culture, and international politics.Major international sporting events of the summer 2021 reveal, according to authors, the crisis of Olympism and degradation of the ideological and philosophical basis of professional sport, which is an important element of international relations undergoing a noticeable transformation under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic and the exacerbation of racist traumas of the past.The study is based on social constructivism, it uses elements of critical discourse analysis and comparative analysis. European Football Championship and Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, FIFA 2022 qualifiers show some politically motivated refereeing, as well as bursts of racism on the part of individual participants. …”
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LINGUOPRAGMATICS OF INTERACTION IN THE GENRE OF BUSINESS PRESENTATION by Natalya Yu. Sorokoletova

“…As a rhetorical genre of business discourse, the presentation is characterized by its own scenario of communicative behavior and aims at informing the audience about innovations (ideas, projects, brands, goods, services) and providing their commercial promotion by influencing people (potential customers) and encouraging them to take actions beneficial to the company. …”
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IN REGARDS TO CONSTANT AND INTERPRETATIVE CRITERIA OF CONCEPT IN A LANGUAGE by M. N. Fedulova

“…Along with this the scientists focused on and are still focusing on non-contradictory construction of concept logic in a language discourse. The author of the article states that the forming of the notions and perceptions about space, time, life is based on the conceptualization processes and reflected in the language and concepts. …”
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The “State Interest” and Humanitarian Diplomacy of Oliver Cromwell by L. I. Ivonina

“…They relied in this mostly on the contemporary theological thought and the nascent “Law of Nations,” which fostered a discourse opposing the extremes of government (tyranny). …”
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