Radoslava Trnavac
List of John Benjamins publications in which Radoslava Trnavac is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-6759 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9897
2019 The semantics of evaluational adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Appraisal Functions of Language 26:3, pp. 308–342 | Article
We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2014) to the lexical-semantic analysis of English evaluational adjectives and compare the results with the picture developed in the Appraisal Framework (Martin & White 2005). The analysis is corpus-assisted, with… read more
2011 Imperfective aspect and epistemic modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 217–248 | Article
As is well known, the epistemic reading of modal verbs typically arises with imperfective complements. It is argued that this is related to a more general connection between imperfective aspect and subjectivity: imperfective forms express simultaneity of a situation with an independently provided… read more
2008 9. Identification and syntax of semantic prime MOMENT in Tarifyt Berber Cross-Linguistic Semantics, Goddard, Cliff (ed.), pp. 241–258 | Article
2004 Conditional imperatives in Dutch and Russian Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), pp. 25–35 | Article
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