Nele Põldvere
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nele Põldvere is involved.
Articles
2024 Everything -cleft constructions in spoken British English: A neglected construction Functions of Language 31:3, pp. 289–326 | Article
Within the framework of Construction Grammar, this study examines constructions with a cleft form containing everything, e.g., that’s everything that’s happened, in spoken British English, using the London-Lund Corpora and the British National Corpora. We trace the development of… read more
From persuasion techniques to pragmatic mechanisms: Unpacking the language of propaganda in English Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
In this study, we describe the language of persuasion in a specific type of fake news used to mislead people by often implicit means, namely, propaganda. In this way, propaganda lends itself well to a pragmatic analysis of the underlying mechanisms that are exploited to convince people to adopt… read more