Idiomatic Expressions in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by Mutiara Amalia, Evert H. Hilman, Evi Jovita Putri

“…The Assertive Act is the most dominant act delivered by the speaker behind the utterances in speech acts. …”
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Portée propositionnelle et portée énonciative des adverbiaux cadratifs abstraits en fait et en réalité by Dennis Wandel

“…These adverbials have a framing function that relates to the propositional content of the utterance which is introduced from a specific perspective. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF LANGUAGE GAMES AS COLLEGE STUDENTS RESPONSES TO THE REVISED CRIMINAL CODE DRAFT 2019: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY by Nurul Nisfu Syahriy, Ridwan Hanafiah, Rudy Sofyan

“… A language game is a form of utterance that obtains various deviations, which is intended for various purposes and contains of more than one meaning that depends on how it used and to whom it is intended. …”
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Length Matters: Informational Load in Ambiguity Resolution by Barbara Hemforth, Saveria Colonna, Caterina Petrone, Mariapaola D’Imperio

“…This justification is achieved more easily when the long constituent conveys new information and when it relates to central elements of the utterance. Informational load is, however, not a simple question of length in numbers of characters or syllables but more likely a question of amount of information. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…Speakers who engage in the joint activity of a conversation tend to align their utterances with those of their interlocutors by reusing, reinterpreting, hence playing with co-present linguistic material. …”
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Discourse Markers as Cues for Topic Shift Interpretation: Experimental Evidence from Spanish by Mercedes Villalobos Cardozo, Ludivine Crible, Liesbeth Degand

“…Results show that these DMs do not override the semantic content of the utterances and, therefore, only moderately contribute to recognising topic continuity or topic discontinuity. …”
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Huuneh : incantation maya (lacandon) contre « la flèche de Kisin » by Didier Boremanse

“…The subject of the present study is a spell that is uttered to alleviate an acute and sudden pain that a person feels in a specific part of his/her body— arm, leg or chest. …”
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Training ESL students to reproduce beat gestures in discourse leads to L2 pronunciation improvements by Pilar Prieto, Olga Kushch, Joan Borràs-Comes, Daria Gluhareva, Carmen Pérez-Vidal

“…While one group was asked to simply repeat the instructor’s multimodal responses to discourse prompts by focusing on speech, the other group was asked to repeat the utterances together with the natural beat gestures that the instructor was using. …”
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L’interro-négative à l’oral en anglais contemporain : enjeux argumentatifs et pragmatiques by Pauline Levillain

“…Indeed, this study attempts to show how argumentation is inherent in the interlocution relation.To do so, I retrieved the utterances of negative interrogative clauses from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English and analysed them paying special attention to two dimensions: the utterer’s and the interpreter’s. …”
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The Information-Structural Status of Adjuncts: A Question-under-Discussion-Based Approach by Lisa Brunetti, Kordula De Kuthy, Arndt Riester

“…The analysis relies on the approach by Riester et al. (2018), which identifies the (generally implicit, sometimes overt) QUD preceding each utterance of a text by means of pragmatic principles, and derives from it the information structure of the utterance. …”
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Expressions parenthétiques dans un corpus parallèle français-grec : les adverbiaux de conviction personnelle by Fryni Kakoyianni-Doa

“…This paper aims at describing and comparing a subset of utterance-level French and Greek adverbials that express the personal conviction of the speaker towards the information transmitted. …”
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Talking responsibly about medicine in the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Alex Broadbent

“… A lot of what is currently being said about the future of medicine in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is irresponsible: it appears to be uttered without regard for whether it is true or false. …”
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Exploring the intricacies of politeness and impoliteness in Acehnese speech variations by Rostina Taib, Muhammad Kiki Wardana, Maya Safhida, Nurrahmah Nurrahmah, Subhayni Subhayni

“…Generally, in Acehnese, language is considered polite if the utterance uses proclitics corresponding to the actor in a sentence. …”
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DEIXIS FOUND IN KAMIO YOUKO’S HANA YORI DANGO IN ENGLISH VERSION by Mariska Febrianti

“…It can be seen from the portion of conversation made by the author is simple and short utterance and also related to some elements in comic itself.…”
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Analiza audytywno-akustyczna danych językowych z wykorzystaniem programów komputerowych: EXMARaLDA i Praat by Marta Rogozińska

“…EXMARaLDA is particularly suitable for speech analysis, as it can preserve and transcribe the sound of very long utterances, select specific phenomena, and create and manage text corpora. …”
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A Hybrid Neural Network BERT-Cap Based on Pre-Trained Language Model and Capsule Network for User Intent Classification by Hai Liu, Yuanxia Liu, Leung-Pun Wong, Lap-Kei Lee, Tianyong Hao

“…The model uses multiple transformer encoder blocks to encode user utterances and initializes encoder parameters with a pre-trained BERT. …”
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Individual differences in discourse management by Derya Çokal, Jason Bishop, Jacopo Torregrossa, Clare Patterson, Martine Grice, Simon Wehrle, Maria Lialiou, Sophie Repp, Heiko Seeliger, Sonja Eisenbeiß, Klaus von Heusinger, Kai Vogeley, Petra B. Schumacher

“…In this way, a single utterance potentially integrates very different cognitive capacities into a basic discourse processing unit. …”
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Mutual coordination of behaviors in human–chimpanzee interactions: A case study in a laboratory setting by Akira Takada

“…They also used other types of utterances, such as providing comments to clarify chimpanzee behaviors to smooth the flow of interactions when a chimpanzee was unlikely to provide a clear response. …”
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FORMULATICITY OF THE INCOMPLETE SYNTACTIC FORM OF AN IMPERATIVE STATEMENT IN DISCOURSE by Iuliia А. Nenasheva

“…The research shows that the sample comprises groups of incomplete syntactic structures of imperative utterances characterized by varying degrees of formulaicity. …”
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