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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"metapragmatics"”.
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"Welshness politicized, Welshness submerged: the politics of ""politics"" and the pragmatics of language community in north-west Wales"
… signals a wrinkle in received theories of metapragmatics. Conventionally, metapragmatics makes sense of the text–discourse relation, but not the relations between discourse and consciousness because theories of metapragmatics apply only to the former. Unless the relationship of …
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The problem with belief: the history and present of discursive violence in policing rape
To understand the metapragmatics of sexual assault at a police academy in Illinois that has a novel approach to sexual assault training, this dissertation examines the discursive development of various rape myths within the United States, and Illinois specifically, while also tracing the …
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THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE
This study contributes to the ongoing academic conversations on language and citizenship by examining how the notion of citizenship is discursively constructed in Singapore, and its relationship with how new citizens imagine and position themselves in Singapore society with respect to the material …