The research of the speech portrait a politician’s personality in framework several linguistic paradigms including pragmalinguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and political discourse contributes to multidimensional, comprehensive study this phenomenon, meeting requirements nowadays scientific demands. appeal topic is due insufficient knowledge system pragmatic means that form modern...

Abstract This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that explores street name changes in Leipzig, a city eastern Germany, over past one-hundred years. Our analysis focuses on ways which semantic choices streetscape are recruited to canonize traces national “supportive hegemonic socio-political order” (Azaryahu, 1997:480). We triangulate from variationist sociolinguistics,...

This paper describes the techniques used by the system presented at the TweetLID shared task for Twitter language identification. The system is based on Support Vector Machines and Rational Kernels. An algorithm for multilanguage labeling is described. Its evaluation and application to Sociolinguistics is also included.

This paper introduces the idea of a non-kinship-based Universal-family firm, an organizational form we developed based on interpreting historical writings in their socio-economic context. We analyzed Luke’s gospel with an eye toward drawing implications for the stewardship-agency debate in the contemporary family business literature. Our paper makes contributions at two important levels. In add...

For quantitative determination of lignin, we have invasive (gravimetric determination i. e. ASTM, TAPPI, SCAN) and non-invasive methods on our disposal. Invasive methods are not suitable for historical documents. On the other hand, several spectroscopic techniques are in use, based on IR and UV spectroscopy. The absorption of light of λ > 300 310 nm by pure cellulose is minimal and most UVspect...

Theoretical framework: ŸSociolinguistics (Labov, Chafe, Biber, etc.) ŸConversation Analysis (Sacks, Schegloff, Jefferson, Wooffitt, etc.) ŸIntonational Analysis (Pierrehumbert, Beckman, etc.) Diverse units in spontaneous speech: Ÿspeech act Ÿidea unit Ÿinformation unit Ÿintonation unit, intonational phrase, tone group Ÿprosodic unit, prosodic phrase, prosodic group, prosodic utterance Ÿbreath g...