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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Second person pronouns"”.
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Pronouns of address in informal contexts: a comparison of two dialects of Colombian Spanish
… among others, display a tripartite system of second person pronouns comprised of tú, usted and vos. The case of Colombian Spanish is particularly interesting because there is greater variation in the patterns of use of pronominal address. The use of more than one pronoun to address the same …
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Linguistic Predictors of Peer Responsiveness in an Online Cancer Support Group
… had higher word count, OR=1.30, p=.001, or fewer second person pronouns, OR=.923, p=.040. Messages were less likely to receive a reply if they evidenced high levels of positive emotion, OR=.94, p=.03. The most common message topics related to self-disclosure (51%), the group (38.5%), medical …
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Teacher-Student Interaction: The Overlooked Dimension Of Inquiry-Based Professional Development
… multiple linguistic signs (questions, responses, personal pronouns, hedges, backchannels, reactive tokens, directives, figures of speech, parallel repetitions) that convey not only semantic meanings (the literal information being exchanged) but also pragmatic meanings (information about teachers …
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Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context
… draw the distinction between the first and second person pronouns versus third person incorrectly. Evidence for syntactic "uniformity"–that first, second and third person expressions are individuated in the same way–is presented in chapter 2. It is concluded that Kaplan's notion of …
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"All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585
… the use of rhetorical markers (vocatives, second person pronouns, and imperatives). Some direct address contains such 'markers' and is thus clearly directed to the audience, for these rhetorical markers explicitly acknowledge the audience; other direct address does not. Early English drama …
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Imagine this: a test of imagination, message framing and reference-level on attitude, self-efficacy and intention to perform exercise
… that refer directly to the audience (i.e., uses second person) or that refer to other people in general (i.e., uses third person). Understanding how the combination of imagination, potential future losses or gains, and direct or indirect references to the viewer influence how viewers respond to …
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Functions of morphosyntactic alternations, and information flow in Surgut Khanty Discourse
… (noun phrase types of referents as lexical NPs, pronouns or zero anaphora), semantics (animacy and person) and pragmatics (information status as new or given information, referentiality as referent tracking, topicality) will be studied. Referent tracking means here coding the discourse …
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From deference to face: the evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish
This study analyzes the evolution of the second person singular address pronouns in Costa Rican Spanish, from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The analysis is built around two time periods, the first from the 16th to the 18th centuries and the second period covers the 19th century and the first half …