Essays about: "addressee"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word addressee.

  1. 1. Expressing deference and intimacy concurrently with honorifics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Patrik Lindqvist Rombe; [2023]
    Keywords : ssu; shinkeigo; honorifics; politeness; Japanese language; intimacy; deference; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study is about ssu, a potential norm breaking honorific which reportedly can express intimacy and deference concurrently. While expressing intimacy and deference concurrently is incompatible with Brown and Levinson’s (1978 as cited in Hasegawa, 2015) politeness theory, Hasegawa (2015) provides a modification of their theory that allows for it. READ MORE

  3. 2. Acquiring Pragmatic Knowledge through Textbooks : Explicit Teaching of Speech Acts in EFL Textbooks in the Swedish Upper Secondary School

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Tova Gustafsson; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Previous studies in the field have suggested that speech acts are underrepresented in EFL textbooks and that, in addition, these tend to have little or no presentation of meta-pragmatic information. In relation to these findings, the present study investigated the extent and manner in which speech acts are presented in EFL textbooks currently used in the Swedish upper secondary school. READ MORE

  4. 3. The potential civil liability of innocent subsidiaries as a consequence of the notion of undertaking in EU Competition Law - an implication from the recent case Skanska

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Krisadhikhun Tangdham; [2020]
    Keywords : Competition law; Concept of undertaking; private enforcement; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In EU Competition Law, the addressee of the prohibition indicated in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) is the undertaking. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has applied the notion of undertaking using an economic and functional approach, determining that undertaking, as a single economic entity, may consist with several separate legal entities, including natural and legal persons. READ MORE

  5. 4. Oh chale : Two stance-taking strategies in Ghanaian Pidgin English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Carolina Lindmark; [2016]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : A common assumption is that language is used for conveying factual information, but linguistic forms also serve a way to communicate pragmatic features, such as speakers’ intentions and mental state. This study describes and analyses two strategies for stance-taking in GhaPE, more specific the use of discourse particles and complement-taking predicates. READ MORE

  6. 5. A comparative study of egophoric marking : Investigating its relation to person and epistemic marking in three language families

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Dominique Knuchel; [2015]
    Keywords : egophoricity; person indexing; epistemic marking; Tibeto-Burman; Barbacoan; Nakh-Daghestanian; egoforicitet; personböjning; epistemiska markörer; Barbacoanska; Nakh-Daghestanska; Tibetoburmesiska;

    Abstract : Egophoric marking as a potentially categorical expression in language is conceived of as a binary semantic contrast that marks an event as either involving one of the speech act participants (egophoric), or as one that does not (non-egophoric). Prima facie, the egophoric marking pattern resembles person indexing and has been interpreted as such. READ MORE