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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"addressee"”.
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Impossible to Write Alone: Expanded I and Absent Addressee in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick
Although Chris Kraus's I Love Dick has been largely read as autofictional or autotheoretical, I argue that its formal characteristics and innovations can be better understood by looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century precedents in the amatory epistolary genre. By examining the formal …
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Japanese Nouns Koto and No
… for by whether or not the speaker believes the addressee believes the speaker believes that a proposition or an open proposition referred to by koto or no is already salient in the addressee's mind. No is used when the speaker believes the addressee believes the speaker believes that the …
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Japanese Sentence-Final Particles: A Pragmatic Principle Approach
… a SFP to achieve his goal, and assumes that the addressee also believes that the speaker has a goal and believes that whatever the speaker does (including the speaker's choice of a SFP) is relevant for the speaker's goal. Given an utterance with a SFP, the addressee, who assumes that whatever act …
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Retelling Michel de Certeau
… and the theorization of the figure of the "addressee" which, as this study argues, is a central and complementary step to de Certeau's ideas. The conclusion suggests an alternative reading of the notion of "tactics" supported by concepts developed by rhetorical theory.
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Thinking outloud: the problem-solving language of preschoolers with and without language impairment
… function(regulative vs. affective) and addressee (private vs. social). The language of six children with specific language impairment was compared to that of six age-matched, and six language-matched peers. Correlations between dependency, impulsivity and efficiency and language use were …
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Choosing referring expressions
… expressions that are optimally helpful for their addressee (Ariel, 1990; Clark & Marshall, 1981; Givón, 1983), speakers do not choose expressions by adopting the addressee's discourse model: Pronouns are more frequent when the referent is salient to the speaker, not to the addressee. I argue that …
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Resemblance-oriented communication strategies: Understanding the role of resemblance in signed and spoken languages
… between cognitive effects (information the addressee finds worthwhile) and processing effort (the amount of work required to understand that information). Human communication reduces the amount of processing effort through conventionalization; words signify concepts, starting points from …
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A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Thai and *American Students' English Application Essays for Graduate Admissions
… the distance between the speaker and the addressee. Thus, there is more need for positive politeness strategies, i.e. showing optimism and interest, offering benefit, and being direct. However, when comparing the use of positive politeness strategies in all sub-categories between the two …
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<sup>~</sup>° and /--: Their origins, their grammaticalization, and the process of encroachment of the former by the latter from a historical perspective
… marker, a non-spatial goal marker with V[+addressee] or V[+target], and a non-spatial source marker with V[-give], V[-addressee], or V[-target]) were more prone to be encroached upon by /--.
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Interconnected musical networks : bringing expression and thoughtfulness to collaborative group playing
(cont.) In order to addressee the latter challenge I have decided to employ the digital network--a promising candidate for bringing a unique added value to the musical experience of collaborative group playing. I have chosen to address both challenges by embedding cognitive and educational concepts …
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Understanding political and citizen participation on digital platforms for civic mobilization. Analysis of cyber-activism in Spain through Change.org
… the addresser, the channel, the message and the addressee. According to the Jakobson's (1960) model of the functions of language, the phenomenon of cyber-activism -object of study of this doctoral dissertation- is analyzed as a linguistic process in which the prosumer, the channel and the message …
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Exploring the confluence of confianza and national identity in Honduran voseo: a sociopragmatic analysis
… including, gender match between speaker and addressee (although no independent gender of speaker or of addressee effects were detected), age of speaker and of addressee, and degree of confianza between interlocutors, in addition to other features particular to the interactional context, such …
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Manipulation of semantics and syntax: the use of emotive language in English and Arabic news reports and editorials with reference to translation
… language aims ultimately at persuading the addressee to accept the facts as they are presented by writers. It is regarded as a necessary condition for persuasion to be successful. This is due to the persuasive force of emotive meaning exerted upon the receiver. In addition, the employment of …
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Gli anglicismi nella comunicazione politica su Twitter
… namely transparency and the possibility for the addressee to fully understand the message.
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Epinician precepts: a study of Chiron and the wise adviser in Pindar
… the myth provides a model for that of poet and addressee and enables the poet to present his advice indirectly. In two separate case studies, I explore how Chiron's paradigmatic associations interact with the poet as adviser. In Chapter 2 (Nemean 3), I argue that the poet dramatises the …
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A comparison of the textual structures of Arabic and English written texts : A study in the comparative orality of Arabic
… it more than Arabic. 3. The addresser and the addressee are given a higher profile in the Arabic texts than in the English texts. 4. Arabic seems to use a higher proportion of pronouns than English. 5. English displays more use of cohesive synonym items than Arabic. 6. Arabic displays more …
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They become badasses: Qualitative inquiry into academic identity and face negotiation in mentoring relationships
… (FTAs) “run contrary to the face wants of the addressee and/or of the speaker” (Brown & Levinson, 1987, p. 301). It is not always possible to communicate in ways that do not infringe on the face wants of the other party. While we know much about the ways in which face threatening acts can …
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Intimations: videoperformance and relationality
… wider debates on relationality, to examine the addressee and the dynamics of relationality through the mediated encounter between performer and viewer, and to produce an account of relationality that manifests the specific ethical and political valence of this practice. I focus on …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… discourse referents in relation to speaker and addressee location. In non-demonstrative contexts, they mark discourse-level properties of nominal referents (e.g., topic status; prior discourse reference) and aid in semantic and pragmatic interpretation. This dissertation investigates elicitation …
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"This stage of woe" : the petrarchanism of Mary Wroth
… discourse that assumed a male poet and a female addressee. By paying attention to Wroth's socio-historical context, as well as her genre, I discuss how and why Pamphilia encounters elements of English Petrarchanism that do not easily allow for a female speaker. Illustrating that gendered …
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