The Canaanite woman’s request or about prayers as forms of linguistic politeness
The paper aims to establish the semantic boundaries between the terms prayer and request, and implicitly the pragmatic meanings actualized by the two lexemes on different levels of language. Through prayers, a sender conveys a message to a referentially indeterminate receiver in the pragmatic contex...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Diacronia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/8/A114/en/pdf |