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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers

Mostacero Pinilla, CristinaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2020

This study examines the patterns of use of pragmatic markers in heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners of Spanish at different proficiency levels (advanced vs. low-intermediate) by comparing their performances in a series of oral tasks. The investigation is guided by two main goals: 1) …

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Pragmatic Markers in Italian Four Case Studies on Illocutive Functions of Adverbs and Sociolinguistic Variation

Cerruti, Massimo, Favaro, MarcoUniversità degli Studi di Torino2021

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A Diachronic Study of the Pragmatic Markers well and now. Fundamental research into semantic development and grammaticalisation by means of a corpus study.

Defour, Tine2007

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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING

Wamsley, James Christian[Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University2023

… their discourse status, and highlight them for pragmatic purposes. Discourse deictics remain understudied, despite serving varied and complex functions. This work investigates Hakha Lai, a South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Chin state in Burma and in diaspora …

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Pragmatic readings of the letters of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611 with diplomatic transcriptions of their correspondence

Williams, Graham TrevorUniversity of Glasgow2009

… with the methods and concepts from historical pragmatics. This cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach is demonstrated to be a valuable way of providing more nuanced readings of the letters and of extracting their communicative forms and functions. These documents reward close …

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