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Interrogative Sentences In Linguistics - Questions, or interrogative sentences in linguistics , are broadly defined as utterances that re...

In a bit long holiday like this time, some of you, guys, may forget about discourse analysis. Now, i wanna help you to keep you schemata ab...

Language is a power used to make one’s statement stronger. Someone uses language to influence people. Moreover, it can hide the fact to av...

Nowadays, as the world keeps developing, the presence of the media becomes crucial since it is the most effective medium to spread out the ...

When language is spoken, it occurs in a specific location, at a specific time, is produced by a specific person and is (usually) addressed ...

Sometimes in our daily lives, we can find acts that do not satisfy the “face wants” of the speaker and the hearer. The acts that threaten e...

Pragmatics is the study of how language is used in communication. The pragmatic of language is concerned with audience-directed intention-h...

Since the discourse analyst, like the hearer, has no direct access to a speaker’s intended meaning in producing utterance, interpretation...

Grundy (2000: 121) divides presupposition into pragmatic presupposition and semantic presupposition. Pragmatic presupposition is cancelable...

When someone speaks to us, we typically make all sorts of assumptions about the background to their utterance which we presume to be mutual...

The independence has been defined by Scollon & Scollon in Fatkhurozi (2007: 19) as an aspect which emphasizes the individuality of the p...

Scollon & Scollon (1995: 36 as cited in Fatkhurozi, 2007: 16) said that face is a paradoxical concept. In one side we need to be involv...

In conversation, there are ways to go about getting the things we want. However, in different social situation we are obliged to adjust our...

A pidgin is a language with no native speakers; it is no one language but is a contact language. It is the products of a multilingual situa...

A.    Machine Translation In America USA is the most productive and consumptive country of MT. Since 1950 year, this country had already h...

Discussing about lexical meaning, there is a currently growing interest in the content of lexical entries from a theoretical perspective as...

A.    The Song Lyrics Listen it We’re the animal sea Check it out The seaweed is always greener In somebody else's lake You dream...

Discourse Originally the word 'discourse' comes from Latin 'discursus' which denoted 'conversation, speech'. Accord...

Actually there is no agreement among linguists as to the use of the term discourse in that some use it in reference to texts, while others ...

A. What is linguistics?  Linguistics is the study about the language. It examines the nature, structure, history and the variation in langua...