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This research analyzes the mitigation and intensification strategies used in expressing and managing differences of opinion within two online focus groups organized on the controversial Moors and Christians festivals with participants that come from a locality where the festivals are celebrated. Drawing on pragma-dialectical theory (van Eemeren, 2018), we study the expression and management of differences of opinion based on the concept of critical discussion and analyze the mitigation and intensification strategies used at each stage of their resolution, employing our own methodology (Aulit, 2023) adapted from Albelda Marco et al. (2014). Given that mitigation is a rhetorical-pragmatic strategy originated by face protection needs and intensification an argumentative strategy of reinforcement of the propositional content or communicative intention (Albelda and Briz, 2020), we highlight the argumentative and social effects produced by these strategies and their impact on softening or aggravating disagreements. The results show differences in the uses and effects generated by mitigation and intensification between the two groups at each stage of the critical discussion. However, the adequacy of these effects to the communication situation and speaker intention allows for the annihilation of potential conflicts and thus the maintain of a positive interactive climate and interpersonal relationship among the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polarity shifting can be considered one of the most challenging problems in the context of sentiment analysis. Polarity shifters are treated as linguistic contextual items that can increment, reduce or neutralise the polarity of a word called 'focus' included in an opinion. The automatic detection of such items enhances performance and accuracy of computational systems for opinion mining. From a symbolic approach, we aim to advance in the automatic processing of the polarity shifters that affect the opinions expressed on tweets in English. To this end, we describe a novel knowledge-based model to deal with quantification in English, which increments or reduces the polarity of opinions. In particular, we explain the linguistic rules of each category of quantification shifter, including information about the scope and direction with respect to the focus. Furthermore, we present the mathematical formulae that calculate the strength of the effect on the prior polarity. Finally, we describe the matrices associated to the linguistic rules, which serve to model the knowledge in text-mining systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, Instagram is the preferred social network for users, content creators and companies (Kemp 2024: 277-280). Among the most popular content posted by internet users are congratulations, which are expressive acts of positive politeness that enhance the face of the addressee. Despite this, there is still no research on politeness that deals with its study. The aim of this paper has been to examine the retrogratifying politeness that Spanish influential figures on Instagram use when congratulating close contacts on professional achievements, and the politeness strategies that their friends and family use when they comment. This type of enhancing politeness produces a mutual benefit in the faces of the author and their addressees. Based on the main politeness models that address face (Brown & Levinson 1978, 1987; Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1992, 1996) and on the taxonomy of responses to congratulations proposed by Elwood (2004), we conducted a sociopragmatic analysis of a corpus of congratulations shared during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic periods by well-known Instagram creators. The results showed that, in addition to congratulations, they included in their content and comments mostly displays of affection, compliments and affirmations. The commentators, instead of congratulating, preferred to show affection, compliment and applaud the good news. Moreover, both authors and commentators reinforced their interventions with various retrogratifying politeness intensification mechanisms. Likewise, it was observed that emojis are an essential piece for expressing retrogratifying politeness in achievement congratulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Comments generated by users of online music streaming platforms have become an under-researched digital genre. We explore this field by analyzing the intensification devices of comments generated by the Spanish new generation singer Álvaro Soler’s Chinese fans. Based on a corpus composed of 1,646 comments collected from Netease Cloud Music and following a “coding and counting” approach, this article examines the usage of intensification strategies in these reviews and the most emphasized topics. Results from this study will reveal how Chinese fans use this pragmatic strategy to express emotions. In addition, their enthusiasm and interest are not limited to the star, but also extend to some linguistic and sociocultural aspects. This work provides an interesting contribution to the study of intensification, and shows Chinese teenagers’ perception of Spanish popular culture from a particular and innovative perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, a protocol for the analysis of mitigation is presented. Using the latest theoretic and methodological research on mitigation as well as the distinction of neighboring phenomena such as intensification and affiliation, we offer guidelines for the study of mitigation. This tool enables analysts to discern whether an item performs a mitigating function, as well as to carry out a complete analysis of how mitigation is deployed in each given context. After presenting the protocol, its application in different discursive genres and geographical varieties of Spanish is shown, thus proving that this scheme is a useful resource for the study of mitigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"¿Sabes?" and "¿entiendes?" are discourse particles used for contact control that serve a phatic-appellative function, to a greater or lesser extent phatic or appellative, to which a modalizing, intensifying, and occasionally mitigating value is added, either as a primary or subsidiary feature. In their description, the importance of prosody is often emphasized as a determining factor in establishing their function, but there are few studies that comprehensively analyze such prosodic behavior. Our starting hypothesis is that the functional diversity of these markers is associated with their prosodic versatility due, among other factors, to the position they occupy in discourse, following the model of oral discourse units proposed by the Val.Es.Co. Group (Val.Es.Co. Group, 2014). We analyze their prosodic realization to establish trends of regularity that enhance their description: this is a proposal that combines functional, positional, and prosodic criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The symbiotic relationship between people and the genus Agave spans millennia and a vast geographical area encompassing Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the Texas borderlands. In the early 1950s, Richard MacNeish's investigations in Tamaulipas yielded evidence of past agave use in the mountains of northeastern Mexico. Excavations in the Ocampo Caves revealed 9,000 years of sporadic occupations by hunter-gatherers, mixed forager-farmers, and finally, periodic visits by residents of nearby agricultural villages. Although these discoveries are incompletely published--and existing publications largely underemphasize the range of utilized wild resources in favor of domesticated maize, beans, and squash--agave is among the wild plant taxa most often mentioned in use throughout the Holocene. Unpublished field notes, curated plant assemblages recovered during MacNeish's excavations, and data from recent archaeological survey complement the published literature to explore the role of this prominent plant in this important archaeological region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The construction [qué + swear word] appears in different discursive contexts. It can act as an independent statement, as a complex interjective variant, in reactive interventions, or is integrated within an utterance, occupying peripheral positions. In the latter context, it develops procedural contents similar to those of discourse markers: specifically, it develops a meaning of reformulation and another one of reconsideration, in which it adds an argumentative counterorientation to what is expected by the listener. This paper analyses its functions from a linguistic-pragmatic perspective which takes into account the macrosyntactic functions of the construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the high productivity of the term "pinga" in Cuban Spanish, documenting 51 units formed from this word. These units have lost the referential meaning of "pinga" as a male sexual organ, but they still maintain their dysphemistic connotation. It is highlighted that machismo in Cuban society has contributed to the productivity of this word, which has acquired multiple meanings within and outside the sexual realm. [Extracted from the article]

This paper aims to describe the discursive functions of locution una de. The hypothesis is that this form has been through a grammaticalization process (Traugott, 1995; Company, 2004), so it has been losing clearly grammatical features to start acquiring discursive functions. Examples for this research come from four corpora: la Norma Culta de la Ciudad de México (UNAM, forthcoming), Ameresco (Albelda y Estellés, 2023), PRESSEA (2014-) y el Corpus Sociolingüístico de la Ciudad de México (Martín Butragueño y Lastra, (2011-2015). Results indicate that una de keeps certain features of quantifiers. Still, it also has developed a procedural value that instructs the hearer that the number of elements it introduces exceeds the limit the speaker expects. Finally, it concludes that una de functions as a modal mark that shows the speaker's attitude concerning what was said. It has two values: (i) emphasis on illocutive force and (ii) intensification of narration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is the result of an investigation into the conditions and determinants of teaching at the secondary level in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to analyze how gender, technological, and socio-health inequalities intersect in educational work, in a context marked by the intensification of teaching work and widening social gaps. We considered the period between March 2020 and March 2021, and analyzed the following particularities: official regulations, teachers' working conditions, the composition and social situation of teachers' households, technological resources available, and institutional support that conditioned pedagogical work. We studied the regulations of the period, official statistics, and surveys and open interviews with secondary school teachers in four municipalities, which reflect the heterogeneity of this Argentine province. Among the findings, we emphasize the intensification of the work of teaching during the pandemic and its particular impact on the secondary level, due to the structure of this job position; among female teachers, the situation became more complex due to asymmetry in the distribution of care work. Collective work emerged to confront these conditions, as an alternative and support mechanism to overcome isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is framed in previous studies on oral narratives, specifically, in approaches that conceive conversational activities as a process of (co) construction of the interlocutors (Gülich/ Schöndienst/Surmann; Gülich 2007). I intend to advance in the knowledge of the forms of narrative reconstruction that are used to report cardiac crises, and in the formulation procedures to represent them (Gülich/Kotschi; Brünner/Gülich; Ciapuscio 2003). On the other hand, I study the linguistic resources to verbalize the intensity – mitigation or intensification – of pain and associated symptoms (Mihatsch/Albelda; Albelda/Mihatsch). The exemplary analysis is based on a corpus of six admission interviews between cardiologists and patients, which took place in a public hospital in the Greater Buenos Aires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We evaluated the allelopathic effect of the invasive species Cynodon dactylon from a natural grassland and overseeding grassland intersowing with legumes and fertilization with phosphorus, on two native grasses, Paspalum notatum and Paspalum dilatatum. Due to what was observed in fertilized grasslands, where the cover of C. dactylon increases, P. notatum decreases and P. dilatatum is not affected, it was expected that the allelochemicals from the intersowing and fertilized grasslands would have a negative effect on P. notatum. The effect of aqueous extracts of C. dactylon on the germination, growth and development of the two grasses studied. Contrary to our expectations, we could not detect inhibitory effects of the treatments on germination and adult plants in autumn, but an increment of germination of both species irrigated with extracts from intersowing and fertilized grasslands. In contrast, in spring, the responses were neutral. The results obtained do not indicate that aqueous extracts from fresh leaves have an allelopathic effect that explains the invasive success of C. dactylon and the decrease of P. notatum in fertilized grasslands, although other approaches should be considered for its study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work, carried out within the theoretical framework of pragmatic linguistics and macrosyntax (Fuentes Rodríguez 2017a, 2017b [2000]), aims to analyze the concessive constructions of enunciation and their attenuating and intensifying functions in persuasive discourse. These constructions, of peripheral position, act on the speech act and present a dynamic macrosyntactic behavior in the argumentation. They modulate the enunciation and intervene in the speech giving it an expressive nuance: it can soften or reinforce it without affecting its truth. From there we can see the attitude shown by the speaker about his own statement. These constructions allow the speaker to achieve self-protection of the self-image, or to prevent a threat to the participants in the verbal interaction. This is its attenuating effect. On the other hand, the assertion can also be emphasized if in the constructions the speaker resorts to the condition located at the limit of the scale and carries out an evaluation towards reality. And the two communicative strategies have something in common: they are deliberately used by the speaker to persuade his listener more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the tools that serve to the linguistic intensification (phonic, grammatical, and lexical), this article tackles the issue of syntactic mechanisms, specifically the quantifiers tal(es), tan(to/a) (s), which function in intensifying structures with or without a consecutive or comparative clause. The main purpose of this work is to describe the solidarity between syntax and prosody in this kind of constructions, which have a significant role in persuasive texts. The corpus to be analysed consists of speeches in which the argumentative dimension is predominant. We will examine three sessions' records of the Spanish Congress of Deputies, a total amount of 12,5 hours, within the XIV legislature, held on October 13th and 20th and November 10th, 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interjection is considered in some grammars as a class of words, other times it is included among the exclamatory groups. Its macrosyntactic behavior has been scarcely approached despite constituting a broad and dynamic paradigm. The interjection can act as an autonomous modal utterance or be included within the utterance performing various functions. The scope of the affected element in each case differs. This paper analyzes those contexts in which interjective terms with malsonant content develop procedural meanings of argumentative intensification. We describe their syntagmatic distribution, their scope and the constructions they generate. We also delimit whether we are dealing with free or semi-fixed constructions and in which cases we can already speak of grammaticalized discourse operators or those close to fixation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Places such as Poverty Point, Mound City, and Chaco Canyon remind us that the siting of ritual infrastructure in ancient North America was a matter of cosmological precedent. The cosmic gravity of these places gathered persons periodically in numbers that challenged routine production. Ritual economies intensified, but beyond the material demands of hosting people, the siting of these places and the timing of gatherings were cosmic work that preconfigured these outcomes. A first millennium AD civic-ceremonial center on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida illustrates the rationale for holding feasts on the end of a parabolic dune that it shared with an existing mortuary facility. Archaeofauna from large pits at Shell Mound support the inference that feasts were timed to summer solstices. Gatherings were large, judging from the infrastructure in support of feasts and efforts to intensify production through oyster mariculture and the construction of a large tidal fish trap. The 250-year history of summer solstice feasts at Shell Mound reinforces the premise that ritual economies were not simply the amplification of routine production. It also suggests that the ecological potential for intensification was secondary to the cosmic significance of solstice-oriented dunes and their connection to mortuary and world-renewal ceremonialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this essay is a sociolinguistic and pragmatic study of the diminutive in the city of Seville. We analyze 72 interviews of Sevillian speakers, of different ages and educational levels, belonging to the sociolinguistic Corpus PRESEEA-Seville. We examine the frequencies, the distribution of the suffix between the lexical bases, the semantic-pragmatic functions, and how the social factors of age, sex and level of studies show the extension of the uses of the diminutive suffix in the community of Seville. The results show a predominance of the form -ito used for attenuation, which is usually related to centralized and decentralized values. Finally, it is mainly used by women, young people, and speakers with a low educational level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using textile production in Postclassic Western Mesoamerica as a case study, this article explores how to differentiate low levels of craft production caused by household provisioning from low levels of craft production due to market reliance and regional specialization. I use a sample of 52 excavated site/phase components to establish baselines for the intensity of production and to evaluate whether participation in the market allowed craftspeople in some regions to underproduce textiles relative to local needs. Highland and lowland sites have comparable low frequencies of spindle whorls during the Early Postclassic, which I interpret as characteristic of household self-sufficiency. Whorl frequencies increase above this baseline earlier and to a higher degree in lowland sites than in highland sites. During the Late Postclassic, some regions may have formed pairs of over- and underproduction zones linked by the market. Because of changes in spinning technology, it is not possible to extrapolate the results of this study to earlier time periods. I then present data from Calixtlahuaca as an example of how macroregional data can be used to interpret craft production at a particular site. Textile production at Calixtlahuaca was generally low, but this was more likely a function of a strong dependence on maguey fiber, rather than underproduction caused by a reliance on the market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El presente trabajo tiene por objeto el análisis de partículas intensificadoras en el discurso humorístico planificado. Partimos de la hipótesis de que el uso de expresiones que intensifican la verdad de lo dicho, como en serio, de verdad o lo juro, es una de las estrategias argumentativas que emplean las cómicas españolas para que su discurso resulte más verosímil. En aras de verificar dicha conjetura, esta investigación recoge un corpus de 15 monólogos humorísticos en español, representados por cómicas de la actualidad, en diversas salas y teatros del territorio español durante los años 2017 y 2018. La transcripción y segmentación de dichas muestras nos ha permitido extraer la frecuencia de uso de los distintos procedimientos de intensificación empleados en este tipo de discurso, así como analizar qué funciones cumple la intensificación como estrategia argumentativa y pragmática. Los resultados obtenidos certifican que las humoristas españolas analizadas recurren a la intensificación durante sus actuaciones para fomentar el efecto humorístico, hacer que su discurso sea más creíble y, por tanto, lograr la adhesión del público. The aim of this paper is to analyse the intensifier particles in planned humour discourse. Our main hypothesis is that the use of expressions that intensify the truthiness of what is said, such as en serio, de verdad or te lo juro, is one of the argumentative strategies used by the Spanish female comedians in order to make their speech more plausible. With the aim of verifying this assumption, this study reflects a corpus of 15 humorous monologues performed in different Spanish auditoriums and theatres during the years 2017 and 2018. The transcription and segmentation of these samples has allowed us to draw the frequency of use regarding the different intensification linguistic procedures, as well as to examine the functions that intensification fulfils as a pragmatic and argumentative strategy. The results obtained certify that the Spanish female comedians under review use intensification during their performances so as to foster the humorous effect and to make their speech more believable and, consequently, achieve the adhesion of the audiece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Recently, researchers investigating the origins of domestication have debated the significance of resource intensification in the shift from foraging to food production. In eastern North America, one of several independent centers of domestication, this question remains open. To determine whether initial domestication may have been preceded by intensification in eastern North America at approximately 5000 cal BP, I evaluated the archaeofaunal assemblages from six sites in the middle Tennessee River valley. Analyses of these data suggest that overall foraging efficiency gradually declined prior to initial domestication, but patch-specific declines in foraging efficiency occurred in wetland habitats and not terrestrial ones. Climatic warming and drying during the Middle Holocene, growing human populations, and oak-hickory forest expansion were the likely drivers of these changes in foraging efficiency. These results support the hypothesis that initial domestication in eastern North America was an outcome of intensification driven by environmental change and human population increases. Finally, while the debate concerning the relationship of intensification to domestication has been framed in terms of a conflict between niche construction theory and optimal foraging theory, these perspectives are compatible and should be integrated to understand domestication more fully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumen En el discurso oral, especialmente en el coloquial, es frecuente hallar un tipo de enunciados que no cabe equiparar con la unidad convencional oración: son las denominadas construcciones suspendidas. Constituyen una suerte de construcción que las gramáticas al uso conciben incompleta, aunque, según puede comprobarse, son completas merced a la estrategia comunicativa que se infiere en ellas. Nos referimos a construcciones como: Esa noche hacía un frío… Así, en este trabajo nos proponemos llevar al aula de Bachillerato el discurso oral en su modalidad más genuina, la conversación coloquial, a partir del estudio y análisis de las construcciones suspendidas, con el fin de que los alumnos reconozcan su peculiar realización prosódica y, adviertan, además, la estrategia pragmática implicada en su producción. Abstract In oral discourse, especially in the colloquial, it is common to find a type of statements that cannot be equated with the conventional unity sentence: they are the so-called suspended constructions. They constitute a kind of construction that grammars conceive incomplete, although, as it can be seen, they are complete thanks to the communication strategy that is inferred in them. We refer to constructs such as: That night was so cold... Thus, in this work we aim to bring to the classroom oral discourse in its most genuine form, colloquial conversation, based on the study and analysis of suspended constructions, so that students recognize their peculiar prosodic realization, and also to warn, pragmatic strategy involved in its production.