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Download full textZhou, Xiaoying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Chomsky put forth his "A-over-A" theory in his book "Language and Mind", which means if a sentence contains (S… (A...) A…) S (A-over-A) structure, then this sentence can only be transformed on the basis of the larger phrase. In this paper the author puts forth the "Psychological Momentum" theory to analyze the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ambiguity (Semantics), Linguistic Theory, Psychological Patterns
Samaali, Imed; Bayouli, Tahar – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This paper investigates the speech act of refusal taking as a case study British responses to a salesperson's offer through the study of recordings of 109 conversations between the salesperson and a potential British customer. The data are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively with the aim of finding the most frequent responses that denote…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Speech Acts, Telecommunications, Sales Occupations
