Anti-alcohol advertisements. Persuasion techniques by Rūta Angelė Vilkelytė

“…The demonstration of solidarity is considered to be an effective technique; therefore, the personal pronouns I, my, you, your are common. In the advertisements aimed at seniors it is common to emphasise death, which is usually expressed by contrasting black and white. …”
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« Les marques » de l’absence dans le théâtre de Maurice Maeterlinck by Eugenia Enache

“…As a secondary direction, we consider the markers of absence in a language that, in the case of Maeterlinck, is remarkably pure and lacks any syntactic or lexical complication, from lexical structures (the reassessment of short expressions makes the utterances seem captivatingly strange, revealing, beyond words, unutterable, unspeakable) and the grammar, especially the semantics of its forms – the 3rd person pronouns, a form we may consider as deprived of referential content, the indefinite pronouns which indicate absence –, the semantics of punctuation, especially that of the suspension points.…”
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A comparative multidimensional study of the English translation of Lunyu (The Analects): a corpus-based analysis by He, Mengyu

“…It is found that there are more private verbs, present tense verbs, be as main verb, past tense verbs, third-person pronouns, and public verbs in Legge’s The Analects of Confucius, whereas Ku’s The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius uses nouns, adjectives, long words, nominalisations, and time adverbials more often. …”
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Using online grammar resources to develop learners' grammar knowledge by Supian Suri, Nor Silawati

“…This study investigated the use of online grammar resources (OGR) in developing learners’ grammar knowledge especially in four grammar aspects; irregular verbs, conjunctions, personal pronouns and prepositions of place. This study also seeks to identify the learners’ attitudes and perceptions on the use of online grammar resources as a tool to develop learners’ grammar knowledge. …”
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Examining structure in scientific research articles : a study of thematic progression and thematic density by Leong, Alvin Ping, Toh, Audrey Lin Lin, Chin, Soo Fun

“…The anchoring was realized by the pervasive use of the first-person pronoun “we.” The mean TDI was lowest in the introduction section (2.593) and highest in the results section (7.095). …”
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Writing research questions and hypotheses: a genre-based investigation into writers' linguistic resources in social sciences by Lim, Jason Miin Hwa, Xianqing Luo

“…Active anticipatory verbs and that-clauses are used to postulate hypotheses in both disciplines, whereas first-person pronouns are far more common in ES than in IR. …”
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NONDEFINITIVITY OF POETIC TEXT UNITS IN VIEW OF INTERTEXTUALITY THEORY by Ilya V. Sergodeev

“…On the other hand, intertextual potential bases on the examples of references to a referent with the use of personal pronouns and common nouns, which do not nominate a person or an object. …”
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KATA NAHNU SEBAGAI KATA GANTI ALLAH DALAM AL-QUR’AN (Studi Komparatif Kitab Tafsir Al-Kasysyaf dan Tafsir Al-Qur’an Al-‘Azhim) by HAFIZ HAFIZ, Moh. Isa Anshary, R.A. Erika Septiana

“…The use of dhamir nahnu in the Qur'an is not only used as a plural for first-person pronoun, but is also used as a pronoun for Allah. …”
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Exploring Agency in Capstone Design Problem Framing by Vanessa Svihla, Tryphenia Peele-Eady, Amber Gallup

“…We identified markers of agency in students’ discourse, including tentative language, personal pronouns, and sharing ownership. Conclusions: Framing agency clarifies the kinds of learning experiences students need in order to overcome past experiences dominated by solving archetypical well-structured problems with predetermined solutions.…”
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Social deixis and communication on Facebook by Kamila Miłkowska-Samul

“…The analysis focuses on phenomena that are related to social deixis such as personal pronouns, possessive pronouns and adjectives, verb forms, honorific titles, diminutives. …”
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Mental time travel ability influences the representation of events and emotional expressions: evidence from microblogs by Zaoyi Sun, Qingyan Li, Fei Luo, Liang Xu

“…From our statistical analysis findings, users with far MTT incorporated longer text length and more third-person pronouns in their microblogs and are more likely to relate the future and past with the present than people with near MTT. …”
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IRINA GLEBOVA'S STORY “POLYETHYLENE SACHET, THE SOUL OF THE POTATO BAG": SYNTHESIS OF GENRE TRADITIONS

“…The discursive strategy of persuasion is combined in Glebova’s text with the dialogue of the author and the reader, which is most obvious in the change of personal pronouns “we”, “he”, “you” as the text unfolds. …”
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Pragma-linguistic and stylistic features of the English online movie review by O. R. Galiullina

“…The important finding is that the creation of perlocutionary effect and the attribution of dialogization and intimization to the speech act are created by the use of personal pronouns of the first and second person singular, imperatives, appeals, question-and-answer structure. …”
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‘ACADEMICITY’ OF RUSSIAN RESEARCH MEDICAL TEXTS: SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF MANIFESTATION by Irina I. Torubarova

“…Special attention is paid to the use of first-person pronouns: their number is relatively low, which indicates that the researchers’ position is not actively expressed in the papers. …”
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Presence of cognitive bias cues in COVID-19 fake news on social media and its role in individuals' vulnerability to believing them by Keerthanna, K.

“…Further, logistic regression found several cognitive bias cues, which include message length, word length, use of negation words, first-person pronouns, numerics, and emotions of hate and torment, to be significant in the detection of fake news. …”
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Subjectless sentences in child Danish. by Hamann, C, Plunkett, K

“…The pattern of subject omission, infinitival usage and third person pronoun and past tense usage points to a grammatical explanation of the phenomenon. …”

Linguistic features in the introduction section of the hospitality and management research articles by John Philip De Mello, Geraldine, Rafik-Galea, Shameem, Chan, Swee Heng, Arumugam, Nalini

“…It explores the frequently used linguistic features such as modal verbs, personal pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, tenses, conjuncts, hedging, citations- integral and non-integral and the use of questions. …”
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Evaluating an Instructional Textbook: A Critical Discourse Perspective by ali roohani, najmeh heidari

“…The results obtained from the tests of significance (i.e., chi-square tests) and the qualitative data analyses revealed that there were some significant differences between males and females concerning role allocation (i.e., activation, subjection, and beneficialization), substitution (personalization/impersonalizaton), and personal pronouns. Compared with females, males were represented as more active, energetic, independent, and assertive forces; males were represented more frequently and placed in high-status positions; they were also individualized more frequently. …”
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Expressive writing for high-risk drug dependent patients in a primary care clinic: A pilot study by Wedgwood Lucinda, Boskovic Mary, Johnson Beverley, Wilhelm Kay, Baikie Karen A, Finch Adam, Huon Gail

“…The use of more positive emotion words in writing was associated with improvements in depression and stress, and flexibility in first person pronoun use was associated with improvements in anxiety. …”
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A Historical-Variationist Analysis of Subject Pronoun Expression in 19th and Early 20th Century Arizonan Spanish by Álvaro Cerrón-Palomino, Sergio Loza, Rosti Vana

“…Since some research on SPE in Spanish in the United States suggests that English-Spanish bilingualism increases the use of overt subject personal pronouns (SPPs) because of their almost categorical use in English, this study’s main aim is to track the initial stages of such progression in a period when social bilingualism was steadily extending in Tucson. …”
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