Comic techniques as the means of transmitting negative evaluation in the English-language online movie reviews

The article discusses the linguistic means of implementing comic in order to convey negative evaluativeness in the English-language online white gold new victory theater movie reviews.The various comic techniques are a rich linguistic arsenal for showing authors criticism.The pragmatic motivation of satirical and ironic texts is the introduction of

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Tura verbal tonology

This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the verbal tone system of Tura, a previously undocumented dialect of Luyia (Bantu, Kenya, J.30).Tura has many tonal Patterns marking tense-aspect-mood-polarity distinctions that are characterized by a grammatical ("melodic") H tone on different positions of the verb stem.The realizat

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Sequential biases on subjective judgments: Evidence from face attractiveness and ringtone agreeableness judgment.

When people make decisions about sequentially presented items in psychophysical experiments, their decisions are always biased by their preceding decisions and the preceding items, either by assimilation (shift towards the decision or item) or contrast (shift away from the decision or item).Such sequential biases also occur in naturalistic and real

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Sputum as a source of adipokines in bronchial asthma

Forty-four patients with allergic (ABA) and non-allergic (NABA) variants of bronchial asthma (BA) were examined to evaluate levels of key adipokines (leptin, resistin, adiponectin) in sputum in different variants of BA.Adipokines in sputum and blood plasma were measured by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA).The indices that reflect the perce

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