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Shareef, Dilgash M.; Qyrio, Marina Isteefan; Ali, Chiman Nadheer – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
For the purpose of achieving a successful communication, issues such as the appropriateness of speech acts and face saving become essential. Therefore, it is very important to achieve a high level of pragmatic competence in speech acts. Bearing this in mind, this study was conducted to investigate the preferred refusal strategies Kurdish and…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Native Speakers, Social Status
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Hunter, Starling David; Smith, Susan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Network Text Analysis (NTA) involves the creation of networks of words and/or concepts from linguistic data. Its key insight is that the position of words and concepts in a text network provides vital clues to the central and underlying themes of the text as a whole. Recent research has relied on inductive approaches to identify these themes. In…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Content Analysis, Semantics, Fiction