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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Deixis"”.
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IDeixis : image-based deixis for recognizing locations
… image-based web search. This is an image-based deixis capable of pointing at a distant location away from the user's current location. We demonstrate our approach on an application allowing users to browse web pages matching the image of a nearby location. Common image search metrics can match …
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A study of deixis in relation to lyric poetry.
This thesis is an examination of the role of deixis in a specific literary genre, the lyric poem. Deixis is seen as not only a fundamental aspect of human discourse, but the prime function in the construction of 'world-view' and the expression of subjective reference. In the first part of the …
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The usage of deixis in advertising slogans related to hair care /
… various linguistic techniques are used, such as deixis. Deixis is used to create a link between language and context, between the speaker (the advertising slogan) and the listener (the reader of the slogan). The use of deictic words creates a more intimate atmosphere that attracts potential …
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Apóstrofe, deixis y referencialidad en La voz a ti debida (1933) de Pedro Salinas
Fil: Urli, Sebastián Daniel. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Deixis, movement, and power in Old English literature: Perceptions of space in early medieval England
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15450 on 2020-10-02 at 15:49:25
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Building a narrative text-world through deixis and modality: a contrastive study of Spanish and English
… narrative styles in terms of how they use deixis and modality to build a narrative ‘text-world’. TextWorld Theory (Werth 1999; Gavins 2007) is both a theory and a method of discourse analysis, which posits that language users jointly build a mental representation of the discourse as it …
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The role of a spatial-temporal deictic paradigm in literary analysis : an evaluation of Karel Schoeman's triptych "Stemme” ['Voices']
Deixis has had a useful, yet fairly one-dimensional history in Linguistics. The core of traditional deixis is essentially the manner that the utterance reflects the spatial and temporal position of the narrator. The aim of this study has been to pursue a paradigmatic application of deixis to …
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Erdvės raiška deiktiniais žodžiais virtualiose ekskursijose /
… of place are analyzed: from cases of direct deixis to imaginary deixis (and its subtypes). The same analogy is followed when analyzing the demonstrative pronouns. Examples with the pronoun anas ʻthatʼ are given separately from other deictic words due its questionable place in the deictic …
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A theory and praxis of a city poetic: Jakobson, poetic function and city space: women, deixis and the narrator: a city poem: 'Shades of light: a triumph of city'
… poetic is investigated by way of a discussion of deixis and shifters (place and self) - with special attention given to the benefits of distinct terms for these two stylistic categories. This thesis is practice-led and half is comprised of the long poem: Shades of Light: A Triumph of City. This …
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Vietos deiksės raiška šiaurės žemaičių kretingiškių šnektoje /
The expression of the place deixis in the territory of the Northern Samogitians Kretingiškiai is almost unexplored – there are only a few hints in scientific literature of place deictic systems in the Samogitian dialect. The aim of this research is to describe which deictic words are used to …
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Hebrew Verbal System and the Use of Weqatal and Wayyiqtol in Discourse-Thematic Analysis
… as the other constituent. Aspectuality and deixis are two prototypical features of qatal and yiqtol. In Early Biblical Hebrew, they interact with each other and with the context to generate Aktionsart and situation aspects. Given that the primary aim is to understand how weqatal and …
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It’s nothing personal? - A linguistic account of the personalization of American political communication
… the thesis adopts the experiential view of deixis, which claims that deixis (expressions such as here, now, and I) is derived from the actual physical act of pointing to things (Marmaridou 2000). Accordingly, we can “point” to things which are closer to us in terms of language use when we …
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… Solidartiy Clitic establishes is between the “Deixis Center” (the Speaker and the Addressee) and the proposition. In order to explain these differences structurally, I propose that the EthCl and the<em> </em>SolCl<em> </em>are different elements: the SolCl is variable and the EthCl<em> </em>is …
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Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du
… through empirical means. Issues of reference, deixis and pragmatic function are critically discussed from the persectives of cognitive linguistics, text and discourse analysis. Past research has primarily concerned itself with written discourse, or with data gathered under controlled …
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The Koh verbal system
… "tenseless" language in the sense that temporal deixis does not appear as a formal category in the verbal system. Rather, it is a sentence level function or is derived from the discourse-pragmatic context. There are one basic mood opposition and four aspectual categories. One aspectual category …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… case-marking systems, the encoding of vertical deixis, object-incorporated verbs, and nominalization issues. As this Kiranti adaptation goal involves adaptation into multiple target languages, I also present a disambiguation strategy that ensures that the manual disambiguation performed for one …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… case-marking systems, the encoding of vertical deixis, object-incorporated verbs, and nominalization issues. As this Kiranti adaptation goal involves adaptation into multiple target languages, I also present a disambiguation strategy that ensures that the manual disambiguation performed for one …
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Gertrude Stein, spatial form, and prose poetry : how Stein uses the linguistic hybridity of prose poetry to present space as process
… in the prose poem to develop a newly plural ‘deixis’. By offering the reader fresh, dynamic ways to orientate themselves deictically in the text, Stein makes the prose poem into form where experience can be encountered as it emerges from the ‘yet-to-be-determined’, and where ‘place’ can be …
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Uncanny Bodies: an arts practice-based exploration of strategies to embody thresholds between life and death
… the same room. The use of spatial and temporal deixis enables me to embody notions of presence / absence and mortality, while my written commentary brings together research on the uncanny, indexicality, the phantasmagoria of pre-cinema and the nature of the media screen in relation to video …
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The Language of Collapsing Power: A Cognitive-Lingusitic Critical Discourse Analysis of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak
… triangulated systematically as markers of power: deixis, presupposition, frames, hidden dialogicality, logical fallacies, stumbles, and backdrops. The thesis is organized into seven chapters, in addition to an introduction and a conclusion. The first chapter lays necessary theoretical foundations …
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