The Atypicality of Predicates with Two Explicit Arguments in Indonesian Conversation by Michael C. Ewing

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Prendre position face à des auditoires hétérogènes : le cas du stand-up by Ruggero Druetta

“…Stand-up, a very popular form of comic performance today, is characterized by a combination of the pragmatic aim of amusing the audience and the overt desire to present the humorous speaker’s standpoint on current affairs, which corresponds to an explicit argumentative aim. However, this is a challenging exercise, both because of the fictional (non-serious) aspect of the comedy show and because of the divisions that the current affairs, whose axiological evaluation is not yet stabilized, could introduce at the thematic and argumentative level within a heterogeneous audience, thereby canceling out the expected euphoric effect. …”
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Dal pensiero pratico al pensiero discorsivo: il caso del discorso politico by David Gargani

“…Nevertheless, this theory in some way weakens the importance of language and of explicit, argumentative discourse, in the construction and, in particular, and in the representation of ideologies. …”
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