Language style (mis)matching: Consuming entertainment media from someone unlike you is linked to positive attitudes by David M. Markowitz

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That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony by Pfeifer Valeria A., Mehl Matthias R., Lai Vicky Tzuyin

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Are Profit and Profitability the Same Thing? by Edward Evans

“… The terms “profit” and “profitability” are used quite frequently in everyday talk to mean the same thing. We often hear someone say “my business made a profit last year” or “my business was profitable.” …”
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Are Profit and Profitability the Same Thing? by Edward Evans

“… The terms “profit” and “profitability” are used quite frequently in everyday talk to mean the same thing. We often hear someone say “my business made a profit last year” or “my business was profitable.” …”
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Youth Mentoring: Involving College Students by Emily Rickerson, Muthusami Kumaran, Kate Fogarty

“… Today’s youth are facing a number of troubling issues including substance abuse, family disturbances, bullying, low morale resulting in low academic achievement, dropping out of school, and more. Having someone who cares about youth, to talk to them about the issues they face and mentoring them, can be a positive factor for all involved. …”
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Youth Mentoring: Involving College Students by Emily Rickerson, Muthusami Kumaran, Kate Fogarty

“… Today’s youth are facing a number of troubling issues including substance abuse, family disturbances, bullying, low morale resulting in low academic achievement, dropping out of school, and more. Having someone who cares about youth, to talk to them about the issues they face and mentoring them, can be a positive factor for all involved. …”
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Dinamika Komunikasi Antar Pasangan by Fitra Yeni

“… Communication is a someone ability to express their feeling and an ability to understanding others. …”
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GODS OF TRANSHUMANISM by A. V. Halapsis

“…Immortality itself is necessary not so much for stopping someone’s fears or encouraging someone’s hopes, but for the final solution of a religious issue. …”
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Table ronde autour d’une performance dans un panier en osier by Baptiste Buob, Jérémy Demesmaeker, Laurence Maillot, Carl Lavery, Vincent Rioux

“…In place of an abstract, here are a few lines written by a reader of this article, someone who is himself a contributor to this issue on “Plastic Anthropologies”, and is keen on Lacan’s topology.Four people—Laurence, Baptiste, Vincent and Jérémy, who have been working together for a few years on a re-imagining, a re-writing, a re-situating, a performance and an (“incremental”) re-programming inspired by the film Les Maîtres fous by Jean Rouch—were invited by a fifth person, Carl, to show and talk about what they have done, in such a way that the article itself re-enacts and therefore transforms the academic ritual of the “round-table discussion”. …”
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Reading from the Guts: of Text and Disgust by Solveig Dunkel

“…One reviewer wrote: “I need to talk to someone about this book. I’m trying to digest it. …”
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Community perceptions of community health worker effectiveness: Contributions to health behaviour change in an urban health district in South Africa by L S Thomas, Y Pillay, E Buch

“…More than 90% of households were extremely satisfied with their CHW; they found it easy to talk to them within the privacy of their homes and to follow the health education and advice given by the CHWs. …”
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Postmodernity, globalisation, communication and identity by Bert Olivier

“… This article sets out to explore what it is to live in the postmodern age as an 'individual', that is, as someone with a distinct sense of self. Consideration is given both to the possibility that individuals today, in the context of globalisation, may not have such a distinct sense of personal 'identity', and also to what it is to have an identity. …”
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Dramatic Autobiography: the Poetic Voice Recreating Itself in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Bride’s Prelude’ by Raphaël Rigal

“…As such, this poetic form helps recreate a life, through the fictitious reality of the poetic voice: by talking about itself and primarily to itself, the poetic persona of the dramatic monologue builds up an imaginary autobiography. …”
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Linguistic Identity with Special Reference to Western Hindi Dialects by Pallav Vishnu

“…Linguistic identity gets trickier when you’re talking about two people who may share linguistic bonds but come from mutually hostile ethnic groups. …”
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On Chinese Translations of Colloquial Russian Pragmatic Approximator Markers: Analyzing Speech Patterns from Literary Fiction by Xiang Yanan, Natalia V. Bogdanova-Beglarian

“…To facilitate this, the authors turn to the use of — along with other colloquialisms and tools — pragmatic approximator markers that are to show the speaker’s uncertainty in what he/she is talking about. Such typical markers in Russian are as follows: типа, или там, как бы, вроде (and their structural variations). …”
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