Although deixis has received increasingly academic attention in linguistic research, its use sermons, particularly the Islamic context, been largely underexplored. Therefore, this paper examined Friday sermons from perspective of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on Levinson’s Framework, it aimed at analyzing three main types (personal, temporal, spatial), focusing their forms, feature...

Lāuga: Understanding Samoan oratory, by Sadat Muaiava. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2022. 336 pages.
 THIS beautifully produced book is a guide to the art of public speaking that embedded in practices chiefly speeches (lāuga fa’amatai) or sermons fa’alelotu). It intended those who may be asked speak at significant occasions, especially within diaspora have lost some their familiarity with th...

We present a set of stand-off annotations for the ninety thousand sentences in the spoken section of the British National Corpus (BNC) which feature a progressive aspect verb group. These annotations may be matched to the original BNC text using the supplied document and sentence identifiers. The annotated features mostly relate to linguistic form: subject type, subject person and number, form ...

How and why do moral judgments vary across the political spectrum? To test moral foundations theory (J. Haidt & J. Graham, 2007; J. Haidt & C. Joseph, 2004), the authors developed several ways to measure people’s use of 5 sets of moral intuitions: Harm/care, Fairness/reciprocity, Ingroup/loyalty, Authority/ respect, and Purity/sanctity. Across 4 studies using multiple methods, liberals consiste...