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Goddard, Cliff – Language Sciences, 1995
Working within the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework of Anna Wierzbicka, this study proposes reductive paraphrase explications for a range of first-person pronominal meanings. It is argued that NSM explications are preferable to conventional feature analysis because they are less subject to charges of arbitrariness and obscurity and…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Deep Structure, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns