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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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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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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Linguistic Contextualism of the Cambridge School: The Problem of the Idea as Historical Action by Georgiy R. Khudaybergenov

“…The article discusses in detail the main provisions of linguistic contextualism: the concept of discourse as a system of linguistic conventions that define the boundaries of possible utterance; the role of speech act as an instrument of discourse change and political action; and the significance of authorial intention in text interpretation. …”
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Probing the role of Coniferin and Tetrahydrocurcumin from Traditional Chinese medicine against PSAT1 in early-stage ovarian cancer: An in silico study. by Jia Zhang, Shalesh Gangwar, Nagmi Bano, Shaban Ahmad, Mohammed S Alqahtani, Khalid Raza

“…The inhibitory effects of Coniferin and Tetrahydrocurcumin compounds were evaluated with the Pharmacokinetic studies and compared with the standard values, which resulted in an utter performance against each descriptor of the QikProp and performed the Molecular Interaction Fingerprints that resulted in the most interaction residues with counts were 4GLY, 4ASN, 4HIE, 4SER, 4THR, 3ARG and many more. …”
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…Terrence Malick’s 2019 film A Hidden Life explores the ethical and political problem of refusal as an act and utterance of “not doing” violence and injustice that is expected. …”
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Exposition et exhortation : deux facettes du discours écologique by Gaëlle Ferré

“…Prosodically close to pedagogical discourse, expository discourse is typically uttered with greater emphasis. Multimodally, this type of discourse relies on visual resources (slideshow, maps, etc.) and speakers’ gestures mostly include three types: discourse organisation gestures, pointing to visual resources, and representational gestures (McNeill, 2005) which illustrate the verbal content in speech and may even complement other types of visuals.For its part, exhortation will be shown to be expressed by hyperbolic speech (Druetta, 2015a; Ferré, 2014), metaphor and contrasts. …”
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Context as a modifier of phraseological meaning by M. V. Harlamova

“…The phraseological units with positive or negative estimation, expressing emotionally-evaluative attitude of the speaker towards the subject, influence the creation of the pragmatic direction of the utterance. Effected by the context, some changes take place within the structure of phraseological meaning. …”
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Optic Chiasmitis as an Isolated Manifestation of Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein-Associated Disease – a Case Report by Nina Barankiewicz-Tyc, Karolina Kania, Wojciech Kozubski

“…We hope that this ophthalmic manifestation of a rare neurological disease will make other clinicians aware of the utter importance of careful evaluation of visual disturbances.…”
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Enhancing social functioning using multi-user, immersive virtual reality by D. J. Holt, N. R. DeTore, B. Aideyan, L. Utter, L. Vinke, D. S. Johnson, J. Zimmerman, K. N. Dokholyan, A. Burke

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The Last Word by Pieter Fourie

“…Distance education demands that every word you utter has to go through a rigorous process of educational planning and design, writing, evaluation by critical readers, re-writting, re-evaluation, and proofreading over and again, before it goes through the processes of production and despatch. …”
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