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Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa 西非马比亚语的名词分类

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101514

Hasiyatu Abubakari , Samuel Alhassan Issah

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Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse 团结话语表演理论的话语实践

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101515

Ahlam Alharbi , Mary Rucker

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From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’ 从尺寸测量到同时性——以俄罗斯po-mere“通过测量”为例

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101513

Alena Kolyaseva

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Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’ 时序时间结构是汉语前、后时态的主要结构形式

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101511

Yongfei Yang , Chris Sinha , Luna Filipovic

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Language sciences in the future: Enhancing our epistemological horizons 未来的语言科学：提高我们的认识论视野

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101523

Sune Vork Steffensen (Editor-in-Chief), Laura Gurney (Associate Editor), Anne Storch (Associate Editor), Matthew Harvey (Assistant Editor)

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A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis 为脆弱的语言相对主义论点辩护

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101512

J. Colomina-Almiñana

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‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese 闽南话中与“脸”相关的表达

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101510

Jiejun Chen , Dániel Z. Kádár , Juliane House

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Linguistic appropriation and/or dispossession: Two sides of the Marxist coin 语言的占有和/或剥夺:马克思主义硬币的两面

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101501

John E. Petrovic

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The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian 口语化雅加达印尼语中儿童-成人互动中认知和道义权利的谈判

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101502

Rika Mutiara

{"title":"The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian","authors":"Rika Mutiara","doi":"10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101502","url":null,"abstract":"<div>Discourse markers can function to mark epistemic and deontic modality. This study aims to explore how children and adults apply the discourse marker deh to signal their epistemic and deontic rights. Previous studies only dealt with how the deontic aspect of deh is used in determining future actions. There is no discussion on how the speakers use epistemic and deontic rights in interactions even though both are interrelated. Furthermore, the previous studies only dealt with adults' language. The present study explores how epistemic and deontic rights are marked by children and adults with deh by conducting a discourse analysis. The data were obtained from the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System). Speakers' neglect of information offered to them reveals that they instead make decisions based on the knowledge they get from their experiences. With this knowledge, the speakers make the message they deliver when they direct others' future actions. Deh reveals speakers' expectations that others will take an action based on the speakers' requests. While children still produce indirect arguments or even, they do not make any arguments, in some cases, adults directly provide arguments to support the claims of adults' deontic rights. Adults tend to talk about hypothetical events in the future in defending their ideas. It never happens in the case of children. The speakers of deh position themselves as the ones with higher epistemic and deontic rights. When the speakers manage future actions and the others do not agree with them, they do not insist that the recipients do what they ask. They realize that the recipients also have the right to decide. Ignoring others’ rights will harm their social relationships.</div>","PeriodicalId":51592,"journal":{"name":"Language Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75396640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis 为脆弱的语言相对主义论点辩护

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101512

Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana

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