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Yemelyanova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the analysis of the addressee's factor foregrounding in the limerick discourse. The study demonstrates that the limerick discourse is characterised by an addresser-writer's and an addressee-reader/listener's reciprocality via idiosyncratic protagonists portrayed by an addresser-writer. A limerick presents a laconic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Stereotypes, Humor
Bruns, Gerald L. – Coll Engl, 1970
Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 26-30, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: English, Figurative Language, Formal Criticism, Language Patterns
Marckwardt, Albert H.; Quirk, Randolph – 1964
This transcription of radio conversations on the English language between Albert H. Marckwardt and Randolph Quirk, jointly produced by The British Broadcasting Corporation and The Voice of America, indicates that American and British English have never been so different as people have imagined and that the dominant tendency has been toward…
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects