Abstract. This research aims to identify the expressive speech act and its felicity condition uttered by high-profile figures. It specifically attempts recognize types of act, intended meaning those types, their conditions. The qualitative method was applied accomplish study objectives. data were figures’ utterances collected from covid-19 related news on an online site (https://www.merdeka.com...

one of the important issues in the monotheistic religions is the felicity and perfection of man. this felicity in islam and christianity is the felicitous transformation of the person so that one becomes near to god or achieves proximity to him. from the perspective of the noble qur’an and the new testament, this is a real ontological transformation, although it is gradual. according to these t...

The paper investigates discourse particles on the example of German doch, assigning to them very specific semantic interpretations that still cover a wide range of their uses. The analysis highlights the role of discourse particles in managing the common ground and crucially takes into account that discourse particles can refer not only to utterances they are a part of and to previously uttered...

one of the ways of recognizing the human culture and knowledge is survey of arts in civilizations. clay and pottery are old handicrafts, and they have ancient placed in iranian's cultural research& cognation. this craft is various handwork of mortality and has with deep denotation. this is the best reason that this craft is the primer thing for figurative culture. in this regard, ever loca...

We present three natural language marking strategies based on fast and reliable shallow parsing techniques, and on widely available lexical resources: lexical substitution, adjective conjunction swaps, and relativiser switching. We test these techniques on a random sample of the British National Corpus. Individual candidate marks are checked for goodness of structural and semantic fit, using bo...