There is difference in the distribution of grammar phenomena different registers. This paper has carried out a comprehensive study linguistic expressions Conditions Chinese legislative provisions. In provisions, are usually used to indicate preconditions or circumstances for legal norm, which referred as hypothetical conditions this paper. contrast, clauses introduced by words dan ‘but’ danshi ...

In this chapter, we propose a multi-person decision making procedure where agents judge the alternatives through linguistic expressions generated by an ordered finite scale of linguistic terms (for instance, ‘very good’, ‘good’, ‘acceptable’, ‘bad’, ‘very bad’). If the agents are not confident about their opinions, they might use linguistic expressions composed by several consecutive linguistic...

This paper analyzes whether the behavior of potential offenders can be guided by information on the actual detection probability transmitted by the policy maker. It is established that, when viewed as a cheap-talk game, the existence of equilibria with information transmission depends on the level of the sanction, the level of costs related to imposing the sanction, and the level of social harm...

AIM The aim of our paper was to explore expressions of life choices and life chances (aspects of agency within structures) related to power and experiences of health among early unemployed adolescent young men during the transition period to adulthood. These expressions of agency within structure were interpreted in the light of Cockerham's Health Lifestyles Theory. Furthermore, social construc...

We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on features that generalize across different target expressions. While idioms on the whole are frequent, instances of each particular expression can be relatively infrequent and it will often not be feasible to extract and an...

• frequencies of occurrence of linguistic elements, which can be studied from two different perspectives: o how frequent are morphemes or words or patterns/constructions in (parts of) a corpus? This information can be provided in various different forms of frequency lists; o how evenly are morphemes or words or patterns/constructions distributed across (parts of) a corpus? This information can ...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...