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Grounding Strategies and Their Implication for Common Ground in Meaning Recovery in Nigerian Pidgin Health Talk

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The shared knowledge, belief and presupposition of interlocutors in conversational exchange have been identified as requisite to the success of the communicative endeavour. The mutual linguistic and contextual common ground of interlocutors has been reinvestigated and adduced as not being static or fixed as erstwhile conceived in some linguistic circles but rather dynamic and emergent […]

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Decoding the Underpinning Assumptions of Linguistic Theories: The Lens on Structural Linguistics

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Linguistic theories are frameworks about language and language use. Linguistic theories seek to outline the parameters of operations in any given language. They are developed by linguists who study language over a period to arrive at specific assumptions about the nature of human communication. Among others, the most prominent linguistic theories today include    generative linguistics,

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Literature and Politics-A Review of George Orwell’s Animal Farm And Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

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Philosophical discussion of the topic “the interrelations of literature and politics” can take many forms. For instance, one might be concerned to argue for or against the claim that literature must be understood as a product of the social and political forces that are at work when it is produced. Or, one might be concerned

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Alternation of the Velar Phonemes of the Tera Language

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In the current study, I examine the alternations that the velar fricatives of Tera [k g x ɣ ŋg] undergo focusing on phonological and morpho-phonological conditioned alternations. Secondary data was used in the study and also my intuition as a native speaker of Tera. Phonologically conditioned alternations showed that the velar phonemes of Tera undergo

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Implicit Vs. Explicit Prosody Teaching in Developing Listening Comprehension Skills by Interpreter Trainees: An Experimental Study

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The present study investigates the effect of explicit vs. implicit prosody teaching in developing listening comprehension skills by Farsi-English interpreter trainees. Three groups of student interpreters were formed. All were native speakers of Farsi who studied English translation and interpreting at BA level at the University of Applied Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Participants were assigned to

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Cognitive Pragmatic Analysis of Illocutionary Metonymies in Li Bai’s Poems

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Metonymy is not only a trope but also a basic way of thinking, and a conceptual tool in which one conceptual entity, the vehicle, offers mental access to another conceptual identity, the target. Panther & Thornburg (1999) hold that, in accordance with the pragmatic functions, metonymies can be classified into propositional metonymies and illocutionary metonymies.

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