The article analyzes the drama Requiem dla gospodyni by Wiesław Myśliwski in context of free indirect discourse as understood literary criticism. author discusses instances this form expression used utterances Boleś, a shepherd and country madman an unknown ontological status. She notices problems with distinguishing between speech direct quoting late titular landlady [gospodyni] whom Boleś est...

CITATION: Excessive self grooming in mice has been used as a model for obsessive compulsive disorder. The fact that the prairie voles do this as consoling behaviour does suggest grooming is comforting. But it also seems that in some strains of mice, but not all, barbering is thought to be a sign of dominance and/or aggression. How can you differentiate between a potentially comforting behaviour...

this article aims to study an important principle in discourse analysis, which belongs to paul grice, the contemporary philosopher. he believes that in addition to giving and taking information during a conversation, people also show their cooperation with each other, and so he suggests the ‘cooperative principle’ which contains some principles of subtext. since the cooperative principle is wit...

Surveys for greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) were conducted during April and May of 2010. We located 152 booming grounds where males gather for breeding displays, and we counted 1,499 male prairie-chickens, including birds of unknown sex.

by relying mainly on the accessibility approach to anaphora, this article intends to analyze the types, distributions and retrieval of anaphors in two forms of spoken discourse: casual and controlled talk. for the specific purposes of the study, twenty sophomore iranian students were randomly selected to conduct the talks. the subjects were divided into two groups of casual and controlled talk....