Defending against social engineering attacks: A security pattern‐based analysis framework by Tong Li, Chuanyong Song, Qinyu Pang

“…Moreover, the existing social engineering defence research is highly dependent on manual analysis, which is time‐consuming and labour‐intensive and cannot solve practical problems efficiently and pragmatically. This paper proposes a systematic approach to generate countermeasures based on a typical social engineering attack process. …”
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Mirative focalization: A case study of Mandarin lian-DP dou construction by Yue Xing

“…Support is threefold – pragmatically, lian-DP dou construction denotes contextually similar implicatures as Sicilian mirative expressions do; semantically, the quantifier dou, serving as a maximality operator, imposes exhaustivity over the alternatives available on a scale and therefore forces the lian-DP to move to SpecdouP; and syntactically, the observable weak crossover effects (WCO) manifest that lian-DP movement is inherently focus fronting. …”
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Iran-Saudi Arabia Rivalry and the Yemen Crisis by Ramazan İZOL

“…On the other hand, with the aggressive policy of Saudi Arabia towards them, the Houthis have further developed their relations with Iran for pragmatic and ideological reasons. In essence, the Houthis, which emerged as a result of Yemen's local and social problems, gradually became another denominator in the equation of the Iran-Saudi Arabia rivalry.…”
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Towards a new stakeholder-inclusive conceptual framework to strengthen internal corporate image by Yolandi Slabbert

“…Data triangulation by means of one-on-one interviews, focus groups and an open-ended survey was conducted with employees to determine the pragmatic relevance of the proposed framework. The findings culminated in a new generic stakeholder-inclusive conceptual framework to strengthen the internal corporate image by means of the AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard elements and responsible leadership. …”
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Étude qualitative des High Rising Terminals à Dublin : protocole PAC-Prosodie et positionnements énonciatifs by Julia Bongiorno

“…We will highlight how important a continuum in the ecological value of the data is for a thorough study of the different pragmatic functions of intonation. After introducing the PAC Program (Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain / Phonology of Contemporary English) and the PAC-Prosody methodology together with its advantages, aims, and utility, we will give a general overview of the various studies on HRTs in several varieties of English before focusing on the South of Dublin. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of metonymy in SSCI-indexed research (2000–2023): retrospect and prospect by Yi Sun, Mocheng Lin

“…Predictive modeling, including ARIMA and LSTM approaches, was used to forecast future research topics based on keyword trends.ResultsThe analysis identified 11 key research clusters, highlighting the central role of cognitive and conceptual linguistics in metonymy research, along with its applications in semantics, pragmatics, and multimodal contexts. Predictive modeling suggested the emergence of seven new research themes for 2024–2028, including the interaction between metonymy and discourse, its role in multimodal communication, and its application in social and cultural narratives.DiscussionThis study underscores the interdisciplinary nature of metonymy research, bridging linguistic, cognitive, and social dimensions. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN MAINTAINING PEACE by I. N. Shcherbak

“…The research article sheds some light on the process of reforms of the UN Security Council and discussions on this issue in the UN , positions of the permanent members of the SC (“P-5”) and different scenarios of the expansion of the composition of the Security Council (permanent and non-permanent members).In contrast to some optimistic assumptions on the perspectives of the reform the author reinforces a pragmatic approach to the issue. Special emphasis is made on the importance of preserving the exclusive position of permanent members of the SC (“P-5”) as the guarantor of global stability and security. …”
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Religious Groups and Their Influence on Interstate Relations (The Case of U.S.-Israel Relations) by I. Istomin

“…Despite the fact that leaders of both group often use theological reasons to justify their support for Israel, the real motivation of the most regular members is primarily humanitarian and pragmatic. The diversity of the Pro-Israeli groups promotes bipartisan support of cooperation between the two countries, and enabled creation of both Democratic and Republican lobby on this issue. …”
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The importance of organisational culture for health system resilience: A qualitative analysis of factors that supported health care workers in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Heide Weishaar, Megan Evans, Souaad Chemali, Eloisa Montt Maray, Rike Böttcher, René Umlauf, Susan Abunijela, Nadine Muller, Barbara Buchberger, Brogan Geurts, Hanna-Tina Fischer, Charbel El Bcheraoui

“…The need to improvise and develop pragmatic solutions to deal with COVID-related challenges offered ample opportunities for participation, self-determination, innovation, and alternative work processes. …”
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Territorial Brands for Rural Development Strategies in Protected Natural Spaces: A Social Demand Analysis by José A. Albaladejo-García, Gonzalo Martínez-García, José M. Martínez-Paz

“…The territorial brand of Sierra Espuña Regional Park (southeastern Spain) was selected as a pragmatic case, with the aim of promoting the production and consumption of sustainable local products. …”
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Analysis of Contemporary Pedagogical Aspects Based on Implicature in Asy-Syafi'i's Poems by Muhammad Ibnu Pamungkas, Syihabuddin Syihabuddin

“…The methodology used is a descriptive qualitative approach with a pragmatic framework. The study involves text analysis and a literature review to identify the implicatures within the poems. …”
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« The reality is, Mr. Speaker, that… » : de la modalité au positionnement énonciatif dans les structures projectives by Florine Berthe

“…All these structures are generally studied for their projective and focalizing functions as well as their discourse-pragmatic functions. These structures are said to be a way for the speaker to comment upon the discourse that follows, which often contains the whole propositional content of the utterance and correspond to the rheme. …”
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Comparaison entre espèces chez le primate et évolution du langage by Anne Reboul

“…More importantly, one can try to identify in the natural communication of nonhuman primates or in laboratory experiments some components of linguistic communication such as syntax, semantic compositionality, or pragmatics. If syntax seems to be absent, connectivity and negation have been evidenced in laboratory experiments. …”
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Między oczekiwaniami a rzeczywistością – perspektywa zawodowa kandydatów do zawodu i początkujących nauczycieli wczesnej edukacji by Justyna Kosz-Szumska

“…Meeting psychological needs (including the desire to work with children, personality predispositions) is combined with pragmatic qualities – e.g. days off, low weekly working hours. …”
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Detecting Source Code Plagiarism in Student Assignment Submissions Using Clustering Techniques by Raddam Sami Mehsen, Majharoddin M. Kazi, Hiren Joshi

“… In pragmatic courses, graduate students are required to submit programming assignments, which have been susceptible to various forms of plagiarism. …”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Carroll’s own description of his heroine with positive animal attributes, ‘loving as a dog’ and ‘gentle as a fawn’ (1887) resonates with an ethical agenda outlined in his novels starting out from the multidimensional interspecies relationship that conceives of difference in a non-dualistic, posthumanist deconstructive, Derridean (2008) way. Focusing on pragmatic, political stakes of Victorian animal allegory I unveil in the Alice tales references to Carroll’s support of animal rights, including his anti-vivisectionist commitment explicitly spelt out in his pamphlets and gaining fictional manifestations in his seemingly apolitical fantasies.…”
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Construction of Gender Identity in Political Discourse by E. D. Butsyk

“…As structural components of gender identity, masculinity and femininity turn out to be modifiable parameters depending on the pragmatic attitudes of communicators. Traditional androcentrism of political discourse may account for modifying the female speech style towards masculinity to achieve certain communicative aims.…”
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The European Union's Mediterranean Policy in the Context of the "Arab Spring" by V. A. Latkina

“…The article proposes that the lack of political strategic vision in the EU toward the Arab democratic transition during 2011-2013 narrows its role as a transformative democratic power, hinders Europeanization/ democratization process in the macro-region of North Africa and Middle East and presents the EU with a new dilemma - to continue its traditional democratization policy or to shift towards a more pragmatic approach to cooperating with new Arab regimes.…”
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Improving farm households’ economic status to address food security in Ghana: The role of participation in nonfarm activities by Eli Andrew Akosikumah, Hamdiyah Alhassan, Paul Adjei Kwakwa

“…Understanding highly pragmatic ways of improving the quality of life of farming households by way of ensuring food security among these households has been a topical issue among many researchers. …”
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Russia and Spain in the mirror of journalistic discourse: metaphors and stereotypes by M. V. LARIONOVA

“…The journalistic discourse, actively multiplicating ethno stereotypes used by the press, not only reflects specifics of national consciousness, but also promotes pragmatic influence of texts of political communication on the reader's conceptual anticipation of the world. …”
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