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  2. Emotive conjugation - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, emotive or emotional conjugation (also known as Russell's conjugation) [1] is a rhetorical technique used to create an intrinsic bias towards or against a piece of information. Bias is created by using the emotional connotation of a word to prime a response from the audience by creating a loaded statement.

  3. Loaded language - Wikipedia

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    Emotive arguments and loaded language are particularly persuasive because they exploit the human weakness for acting immediately based upon an emotional response, without such further considered judgement. Due to such potential for emotional complication, it is generally advisable to avoid loaded language in argument or speech when fairness and ...

  4. Emotive (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    One important difference between emotive and descriptive use of language is the difference in intention. The discourse of a man using language emotively, using it to express or to arouse feelings, differs in intention from the discourse of a man using language descriptively to convey descriptive meanings (Castell 1949).

  5. Emotivism - Wikipedia

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    Stevenson's Ethics and Language, written after Ross's book but before Brandt's and Urmson's, states that emotive terms are "not always used for purposes of exhortation." [47] For example, in the sentence "Slavery was good in Ancient Rome", Stevenson thinks one is speaking of past attitudes in an "almost purely descriptive" sense. [47]

  6. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The emotive [note 1] function: relates to the Addresser (sender) and is best exemplified by interjections and other sound changes that do not alter the denotative meaning of an utterance but do add information about the Addresser's (speaker's) internal state, e.g. "Wow, what a view!" Whether a person is experiencing feelings of happiness ...

  7. Quality time is the most popular love language in America ...

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    Music can also be a language of love, according to this study. If your partner likes K-pop, for example, they are the most likely of any music fan base to cherish quality time in their love life ...

  8. Tripartite alignment - Wikipedia

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    A tripartite language does not maintain any syntactic or morphological equivalence (such as word order or grammatical case) between the core argument of intransitive verbs and either core argument of transitive verbs. In full tripartite alignment systems, this entails the agent argument of intransitive verbs always being treated differently ...

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