The Rising Religious Extremism and Mob violence in Nigeria by Ismail Husain Mshelia

“…In the light of a mob violence that resulted in the gruesome murder of a college student who allegedly uttered blasphemous comment, this paper examined the rise of religious extremism in Nigeria. …”
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The Correlation between Social Deixis and Social Class in a Speech by Nobel Prize Winners: A Sociopragmatic Study by Annur Karima Zulyanputri, Lia Maulia Indrayani, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri

“…The findings show that all types of social deixis which are absolute and relational can be identified from every speech uttered by the Nobel Prize winners. In accordance with the social class, only the relational type that can be correlated with the speakers’ social class. …”
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Quand maintenant et après disent (à peu près) la même chose (mais pas de la même façon) by Anne Le Draoulec, Josette Rebeyrolle

“…This article deals with a particular use of the French adverb après: a use in which après, in an initial position, loses its temporal dimension and signals a discourse shift, a rupture with the preceding utterance (see [A]). This pragmatic use is very close to the one which has been studied for the French adverb maintenant when it is also used in an initial position (see [B]):[A] Essaie de ne plus recommencer car tu pourras être mal vu par les administrateurs, c’est juste un conseil, après, tu fais ce que tu veux.…”
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A Bichannel Transformer with Context Encoding for Document-Driven Conversation Generation in Social Media by Yuanyuan Cai, Min Zuo, Qingchuan Zhang, Haitao Xiong, Ke Li

“…This conversational generator consists of a context encoder, an utterance encoder, and a decoder with attention mechanism. …”
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The structure / anti-structure of October Revolution celebration on late Soviet periodical press (on materials from Tomsk) by A. D. Moiseenko

“…The main research conclusions are related to determining the boundaries of the triad of celebratory actions and utterances under consideration. According to the source material, the combination of mechanisms for the implementation of hyperstructure and anti-structure of the celebration of the October Revolution Day reproduced the basis of the celebration — «structure» (which, by definition, should be a reflection of Soviet reality itself). …”
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The Contributions of Party System to Democratic Development in Africa: A Historical Perspective by Ameen Abdulkadir

“…Democracy instead of being the bedrock of good governance stayed on as an unfulfilled promise because the method of power acquisition remained basically authoritarian and functioned on the basis of a hierarchy of networks and alliances with local tribe, ethnic group or through top-down utter sovereignty of institutions that choke the grassroots politicization of society which had been the moral fibre of the process of democratization. …”
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Converging accommodation in the Black Country Dialect by Lyndon Higgs

“…Accommodation towards and away from BC dialect forms serves to disambiguate the situations of utterance involved, as well as clarifying relationships between the speakers. …”
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PHILOSOPHIC AND CLINICAL DISCOURSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by V. M. Skyrtach, R. S. Martynov, A. O. Karpenko

“…Originality of the research lies in definition of the clinical philosophical discourse as a special communicative process, where utterances not only focus on disease syndromes, and reveal phenomenology of inner experience of a pathological self, but also structure a certain type of sociality. …”
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Cognitive and emotional statements as components of reciprocal interaction in network thinking by Denis F. Dautov

“…Fundamental differences in the influence of various forms of reciprocity on utterances in the process of joint mental activity are revealed. …”
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What lies beyond and within humour: A relevance-theoretic approach to propositional meanings in the sitcom Modern Family by Magdalena Wieczorek

“…On this observation, it is assumed that processing of humorous utterances may result in the recipient’s being amused and/ or in making more insightful observations concerning goals a speaker wishes to attain. …”
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Voix de revenants dans les Pièces pour danseurs de W.B. Yeats. L’exemple de Ce que rêvent les os by Pierre Longuenesse

“…The action that unfolds before the spectator thus becomes a projection of his imaginary landscape, the “music of the lost kingdom” of memory, brought forth by the power of utterance. In this manner the writing itself becomes the place where dreams can emerge through its capacity to conjure up things that are simultaneously shown to be absent. …”
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Males and females’ complimenting behaviour on the celebrities’ Instagram comments by Muthiara Chairani, Subiyantoro Subiyantoro

“…A compliment is a sincerely positive comment, remark, utterance, or expression about the speaker’s intention to have a good relationship with others by delivering positive or good values toward someone else. …”
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LINGUISTIC AND ACOUSTIC RESOURCES OF THE COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF SPEECH INTONATION by Yu. A. Zdaranok

“…This article describes a novel approach to discriminating native and nonnative utterances based on suprasegmental features that constitute the intonation of the syntagma. …”
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Je parle pas la langue 1 by Noëlle MATHIS

“…They weave together the origin of writing and the origin of sensation; they utter what the body has retained of the echo of the passing presence of each language: the body is where vibration originates; they tell us that we are palimpsests – a complex canvas composed of numerous strata; they come from the night, from silence, from childhood. …”
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Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“…In the name of the editorial board of Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética and my own, we dedicate this issue to the heroes of this pandemic, the health professionals (doctors, nurses, para- medics, to name just a few) who have risked their lives for the most vulnerable and feeble, those who have suffered the agony of this utterly heartless coronavirus disease. …”
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LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH by V. G. Ivanova

“…Its aim is to minimize the impact of the negative factors on the message addressee, to lower the categoricity of the utterance and to take the interlocutor’s interests into account.…”
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“TRANSHUMANIZATION” OF MODERN EDUCATION by G. L. ILYIN

“…The paper defines the concept of transhumanism, which denotes transition beyond the bounds of humanism and bears in mind utterly new human beings. The author views the prospects of modern education through the optics of transhumanism project, describes the changes in education on the background of explosive growth of NBICS-technologies. …”
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Beneficial Effects of Palmitoylethanolamide on Expressive Language, Cognition, and Behaviors in Autism: A Report of Two Cases by Nicola Antonucci, Alessandra Cirillo, Dario Siniscalco

“…Expressive language, as measured by mean length of utterance, and overall autism severity as measured by the Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition, improved significantly. …”
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Comparing the productive vocabularies of grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) and young children by Tereza Roubalová, Lucie Jarůšková, Kateřina Chládková, Jitka Lindová

“…The results show that the ‘vocabularies’ of talking grey parrots and children differ: children use significantly more object labels, activity and situation labels, and emotional expressions, while parrots produce significantly more conversational expressions, greetings, and multiword utterances in general. These differences could reflect a strong link between learning spoken words and understanding the underlying concepts, an ability seemingly unique to human children (and absent in parrots), but also different communicative goals of the two species.…”
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Non-Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech by Natasha Warner, Daniel Brenner, Benjamin V. Tucker, Mirjam Ernestus

“…., was/were, from reduced pronunciations. Only the full utterance context (containing syntactic/semantic information such as ‘yesterday’ or another tensed verb) helped Dutch listeners to recover from reduction. …”
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