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  • 51Urdu — Infobox Language name=ISOtranslit|Urdu|ur nativename= ur. Nastaliq|اُردو familycolor=Indo European pronunciation= [ˈʊrd̪uː] caption=Ordu in Persian Arabic script (Nasta liq style) states= Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK, USA,… …

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  • 52Pragmatics — Linguistics …

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  • 53T-V distinction — In sociolinguistics, a T V distinction describes the situation wherein a language has second person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult toward the addressee. History and… …

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  • 54Imperative mood — The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that expresses direct commands or requests. It is also used to signal a prohibition, permission or any other kind of exhortation. Morphology The English imperative is formed simply by using the bare… …

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  • 55Cooperative principle — For the principles governing the functioning of cooperatives, see Rochdale Principles. In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people interact with one another. As phrased by Paul Grice,… …

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  • 56Robin Lakoff — Robin Tolmach Lakoff (born 1942) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.Lakoff s writings have become the basis for much research on the subject of women s language. In a 1975 article, she published ten basic… …

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  • 57Sentence-final particle — A sentence final particle, also sometimes referred to as a modal particle ,cite book | last=Lin | first=Huey Hannah | title=Contextualizing Linguistic Politeness in Chinese [http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send pdf.cgi/Lin%20Huey%20Hannah.pdf?acc num …

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  • 58Stephen C. Levinson — is director of the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received a BA in Archaeology and Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and received a PhD in… …

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  • 60English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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