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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"reported speech"”.
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A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Reported Speech and the Effects of Interference and Transfer in Learning English as A Foreign Language
Problem. By equating the processes of child first language acquisition, with those of adult foreign language learning, some scholars have been tempted to minimize the use of native language transfer strategy used by adults while performing in a foreign language. Nevertheless, there are some ot
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Propositional attitudes and indexicality : a cross categorial approach
… mood can be treated on a par when they occur in reported speech. We consider several generalizations that hold across sortal domains, and develop a theory of propositional attitudes and indexicality that captures these facts, and treats all three categories on a par. First, we extend the notion …
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Reduction of fear arousal in young adults with speech anxiety through elicitation of positive emotions
… theory of positive emotions in a speech anxious sample of undergraduate students. Experimental elicitation of positive emotions has previously been shown to speed cardiovascular recovery, increase attention, and broaden thought-action repertoires compared to elicitation of negative …
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Examining Variables Associated With Age of First Concern and Diagnosis in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… concern and diagnosis; and while parents reported Speech/Communication concerns most often, multiple first concerns was associated with earlier recognition by parents and diagnosis. Efforts should be made to educate the public on the more subtle symptoms and behaviors associated with ASD. …
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Modelling readers of news articles using nested beliefs
… told to a reporter by game sources. Such reported speech can only be adequately modelled using nested belief models to represent the reader's beliefs about the reporter's beliefs about the source's beliefs. This thesis proposes a method for representing a news article, analysing it to …
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The structure of attitude reports : representing context in grammar
… have a secondary use as a marker of reported speech. I unify this use of complementizers with their more common clausal subordination use by adopting the proposal in Kratzer (2006), which argues that the modal quantification component of attitude reports is in the complementizer, …
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A Comparative study of language attitudes, use and identity in two returnee migrant contexts: Greek-Brazilians and Greek-Germans in Greece
… and other linguistic devices including reported speech and the use of the pronouns ‘we’ and ‘they’. A comparison between two groups, which is the focus of this study, highlights the importance of avoiding generalization of the findings to all returnee groups. Findings, point to the wide …
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Approaching devices in personal narratives in Lambayeque, Peru
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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TWIN TALK
… though not necessarily uniquely. Simultaneous speech is a conversational practice evident in every set of twin siblings' transcripts, serving as a completion to the other's utterance. In the presence of parents, it functions as a competitive move, other-initiated repair, and entertainment. As …
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USING SINGAPORE COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH AS A PEDAGOGICAL MEASURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
… of Singapore Colloquial English (SCE), students' speech and their writing. It also sets out to experiment whether the teaching of Standard English (Std E) features using SCE features (which is a more familiar register of the English Language (EL) for the students because of their widespread use …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with …