Less Stringent Global Health Treaties: Insights from Various Regimes by Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar

“…Then, it compared two sides of the debate on flexibility: the idealism of full commitment by all and the pragmatism of willingness to participate and enforce. …”
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IS L. WITTGENSTEIN A PHILOSOPHER OF ANALYTIC OR HERMENEUTIC? by Tomas Kačerauskas

“…Late Wittgenstein influenced the late hermeneutic and pragmatic analytic. …”
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Fictionality in “Fog on the Barrow-downs”: Myth and Reference by Sanja Ignjatović, Marija Budimski

“…In the introductory section, the authors review relevant literature pertaining to the manner in which immersion occurs, how analogous links are formed between fiction and reality, and whether the pragmatic dichotomy of the fictional and factual holds in all fictional circumstances. …”
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But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ Meaning construction in medical encounters by Eszter Kárpáti, Judit Kleiber

“…Our question is how institutional context influences the utterance meaning: if it is really triple layered (literal, utterance-type or pragmatic, Levinson 2000), or rather a continuum (Wilson 2016). …”
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Domains and Functions: A Two-Dimensional Account of Discourse Markers by Ludivine Crible, Liesbeth Degand

“…In particular, its main innovative feature is to distinguish between two independent layers of semantic-pragmatic information (i.e., domains and functions) which, once combined, provide a fine-grained disambiguation of discourse markers. …”
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Locative Inversion In Discourse: a strategy of non-commitment by Christine Copy, Lucie Gournay

“…Some examples of these properties are: LI’s incompatibility with negation or epistemic modalization, strong aspectual and temporal restrictions such as its incompatibility with BE+ING or generic interpretations.In the second part of this paper, we provide a discursive analyse of LI in two actual literary contexts: i) first, when it occurs at the beginning of folktales; there, its predicative use is compared to there-sentences, the latter, we argue, being typically speaker-based predications; ii) then, when it occurs in narrative’s descriptions (for instance in crime-scene description); there, LI appears in a context of internal focalization, with the make-belief effect of referring directly to the situation described as if it was perceptible by everyone.In both cases, it appears that LI occurs in contexts where the speaker is pragmatically determined. Its use depends on the need to resort to a "universal" commitment for the predication.…”
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Users' information behaviour - a gender perspective by Jela Steinerová, Jaroslav Susol

“…By sorting user types it was found out that women tended to manifest a pragmatic way of information use (the S type). Men confirmed analytic information processing (the A type). …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…We will show that this particular use of faire, which cannot systematically be paraphrased by dire, presents, in relation to the latter, an additional pragmatic value which consists in presentifying a represented speech act by mimicking it and replaying it. …”
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Do Economic Policy Uncertainty Have Ramifications on Inflation and Stock Market Performance? Evidence from Global Framework by Mishra Amritkant

“…This pragmatic study aims to comprehensively examine the underlying impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on both inflation and stock market performance across fifteen major global economies, employing the robust panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model. …”
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Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns by Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse

“…Moreover, we show that the use of emphatic pronouns is affected by pragmatic constraints, which is not the case for contrastive adverbs: emphatic pronouns typically modify subjects with a clearly identifiable – preferably human – referent. …”
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Concepções político-ideológicas e didáticopedagógicas dos participantes do IV ENESEB by Leandro Raizer, Daniel Gustavo Mocelin

“…Finally, despite the heterogeneous profile and different pedagogical and political views that were mapped, particularly the pragmatic and emancipatory ones, the survey reveals the existence of a consensus on the important role of the National Curriculum Guidelines (OCNS) for the qualification of the teaching of sociology as a discipline.…”
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Spanish prosody in people with autism spectrum disorder. A scope review by Valeska Torres Bustos, Ángel Roco Videla

“…The research studied the accent in people with autism spectrum disorder; another pauses; while a study dealt with the validation of a test to assess pragmatic prosody. Research on prosody in people with autism spectrum disorder in different variants of Spanish is scarce, which prevents adequate characterization of prosodic features in this population.…”
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Soviet Diplomacy: Waging and Winning Its Own War – Introduction to the Forum by K. M. Barsky

“…Secondly, it discusses the adeptness in striking a careful balance between steadfastly maintaining one's stance and employing flexibility and pragmatism to achieve the ultimate objective of victory over the enemy. …”
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L’organisation des expressions ritualisées dans le genre épistolaire : étude contrastive sur corpus en français et en chinois by Qianyun Li, Julie Sorba

“…The contrastive analysis of these formulas allows us to highlight the rhetorical and pragmatic functions chosen first by the writers of the two languages (to expose a thesis, to acknowledge receipt of a letter, to express a personal feeling, to arouse emotion, etc.). …”
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Focalisation averbale vs focalisation verbale en français parlé by Noalig Tanguy

“…Furthermore, the same pragmatic effect is obtained by both structures, as they result from the same focalisation process, entailing the fronting of a rhematic element.We will hence suggest an identical interpretation for such structures, as they can be analysed as a 'nucleus' + a 'suffix'. …”
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Skrif en kerkorde by A. Celliers, P. J. Strauss

“…The outlines of the nature and order of the church should be addressed in all church orders to avoid pragmatism and arbitrariness on the one hand, and to create space for the various demands of local circumstances on the other. …”
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern by Joel Janhonen

“…Therefore, our emotional impulses can be rich in pragmatic ethical wisdom. The intuition to resist change has a similar evolutionary origin. …”
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A ética do cuidado como uma gramática da ação: uma análise do consumo crítico em um mercado alternativo by Felipe da Luz Colomé, Ricardo Mayer

“…Through the contributions of the pragmatic sociology of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot (1991), we analyzed the axiological rationality that underlies the actors’ preferences in alternative markets. …”
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Referential Choices and Specific Language Impairment: Sensitivity to Contrast Levels and Grammatical Role by Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Flavia Adani

“…We examine the referential choices of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI), in order to differentiate between the linguistic and pragmatic abilities involved in the selection of appropriate referring expressions. …”
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