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Stereotyping Scotland: Groundskeeper Willie’s illocutionary acts in The Simpsons by Virdis, Daniela Francesca

“…This article explores the Scottish character of Groundskeeper Willie in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons with a pragmatic and social-psychological…”
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Subversion of gender stereotypes in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret by Öztekin, Sercan

“…Victorian sensation fiction strives to go beyond its time through issues and characters that do not conform to nineteenth century social norms. The novels of…”
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The pragmatics of promotional features and discourse strategies in postgraduate school prospectus in Nigeria by Oke, Felix Bayode, Olajimbiti, Ezekiel Opeyemi

“…This paper extends the frontier of research in the marketisation of higher education institution by investigating the pragmatics of promotional features and…”
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A window into short-story construction: Richard Yates’ “Builders” and questions of the autobiographical content of his work by Wood, Karl

“…Richard Yates, most remembered for his Revolutionary Road (1961), was also the author of two fine and exceptionally well-crafted collections of short stories,…”
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A contribution to the implicit/explicit debate on grammar learning: the case of contrast connectors by Costa, Ana Luísa

“…In this paper, studies on language acquisition and development are seen as most relevant to grammar teaching and learning. Grammar teaching may be conceived as…”
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Meaning in multisemiotic messages – functions of gestures accompanying speech as elements of utterance structure by Kraśnicka, Izabela

“…The topic of the article will be the discussion of the issue of how gestures accompanying speech may complement a gap in a statement. The considerations will…”
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The preposition under and its noun collocates in the under-NOUN pattern: A quantitative corpus-based investigation by Wiliński, Jarosław

“…This paper adopts a usage-based perspective on grammatical structure (Goldberg 2006, 2013) and the attraction-reliance measure (Schmidt 2000; Schmid Küchenhoff…”
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The city vs. the country: A climate of anti-urbanism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton by Kiersnowska, Beata

“…This paper aims to discuss a contrast between the city and the country in Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell’s first novel. By juxtaposing negative images of…”
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I will see it done: Metonymic extensions of the verb see in English by Matusz, Łukasz

“…English verbs of perception appear to be significant generators of divergent polysemous senses. The aim of this paper is to propose a dictionary study of the…”
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Does Brexit mean Brexit? An analysis of the semantic field of the lexeme Brexit by Sekścińska, Izabela, Piórkowska, Agnieszka

“…The article presents the results of a discourse analysis of the contextual uses of Brexit. Based on corpus-driven Internet samples, the research employs the…”
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Code-switching between Arabic and English during Jordanian GP consultations by Alkhlaifat, Etaf, Yang, Ping, Moustakim, Mohamed

“…This study draws conceptually on communication accommodation theory (CAT) to describe and analyze conversations between doctors and patients to identify the…”
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Should we teach first language grammar in compulsory schooling at all? Some reflections from the Spanish perspective by Fontich, Xavier

“…This text explores the controversial issue of grammar teaching in Language Arts. It considers the importance of grammar in schooling based on the learners’…”
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Polish pre- and upper-intermediate learners’ opinions on the significance of linguistic and non-linguistic determinants of speech in developing their EFL speaking skill: A quantitative study by Gajewska, Klaudia

“…Since “spontaneous verbal expression is not solely a product of knowledge and skill in using a language code” (Rivers 1968: 192), many scholars have emphasised…”
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Selected aspects of the conceptualisation of success in English and Polish by Lach Mirghani, Katarzyna

“…Conceptualisation is “the process of meaning construction to which language contributes. It does so by providing access to rich encyclopaedic knowledge and by…”
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Conceptual metaphors in lyrics, vocal realization and music – reinforcement or modification of emotional potential by Zyga, Magdalena

“…The paper seeks to examine the ways in which the emotional potential (germ. Emotions potential) rooted in the textual part of selected songs can potentially be…”
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Teacher identity and agency in language teaching: Adult ESL instructors as explorers by Sanczyk, Anna

“…As the world becomes more globalized, various social, cultural, and historical contexts are shaping teacher identities. Exploring teacher identities is…”
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Lost in space, lost in himself: Paul Auster’s Ghosts and the postmodern city by Kula, Julia

“…Ghosts, the second part of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, is generically classified as anti-detective fiction. The dominant setting of the novel, the…”
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Investigating multilingual contexts in the Nigerian advertising space: A domain of intellectual stimulation by Dalamu, Taofeek Olaiwola

“…This study examined advertising, exhibiting multilingual structures to reach the Nigerian audience. Halliday’s mood system and morphological processes served…”
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Annual Company Reports’ narratives migrate to the Web: A diachronic perspective by Giglioni, Cinzia

“…Despite the dramatic innovation brought about in the field of corporate communication by the advent of the World Wide Web, when it comes to annual company…”
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Lexical networks between sounds and meanings in Taiwan Mandarin: Evidence from psycholinguistics by Tseng, Tzu-Yi

“…The present study aims to provide an outline of lexical networks between sounds and meanings in Taiwan Mandarin. Both the phonological and semantic relations…”
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