Proclaim: Pronounce

CONTRACTION

An utterance which expresses a strong level of writer commitment through the author’s explicit emphasis and interpolation.

In pronounce, the writer shows strong commitment that their idea is TRUE. Reader would consider that this is a very bold move. Pronounce is where you

  • I contend it’s the worst address by a British Prime Minister.
  • I insist that she’s the person for the job.
  • I would contend that this enviable level of tolerance is not the result of direct government laws or interventions.
  • I would affirm the judgment of the trail court and deny the motion to suppress Oliver’s statement.
  • It is absolutely clear to me that what Charlotte was arguing was that Crouching Tiger was a bad film to which liberal audiences imputed a significance shaped by their own prejudices about Chinese cinema and the Chinese in general.
  • It is evident that a powerful political - industrial complex with a developmentalist ideology remains the greatest threat to the environment of Taiwan .
  • It is truly unfortunate that in today’s society, women continue to be subjected to sexism whe it comes to decisions regarding their own bodies.
  • I therefore propose that universities have a greater role in working alongside the NCAA in negotiating its television.
  • One of the arrested people in fact was a Hindu, a chef from Hong Kong.
  • We have to remember that bobbies move around - and slowly.
  • The absolute fact is that linguistics is fun.
  • But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership.
  • The scare was enough to close the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong for a day, though the men turned out to be tourists
  • There is no doubt that globalization has a deep effect on China.
  • I DID turn out the lights before I left.
  • However, there is mounting evidence that processes of language acquisition, use, and change are not independent of one another but are facets of the same system.

Examples added on May 26th

  • We firmly believe deepwater drilling can be done safely and in an environmentally sensitive manner.
    • Note: firmly here intensifies and increases the commitment by the author, so we consider them as Pronounce rather than Entertain.

Pronounce is also realized by intensifiers with clausal scope such as really, indeed, etc.

  • I really think that it is true.
  • Indeed, a binary definition of the environment increases the strength of spatial relations and the measure of spatial autocorrelation.
  • The language spoken at that period is undoubtedly called Middle English, which is sandwiched in‑between by Old English and Modern English. (Note: undoutedly expresses authors committment to their assersion.)
  • In this way the company can definitely fulfil the fluctuating demand. (Note: definitely carries the author’s subjective involvement to the company’s capacity.)
Emphasis of a self-sourced argument (WIP):
  • Bolded red text is used to mark a supplementary material reference tags like sources, citations, or endophoric markers.
  • As usual, bolded black text marks the category tag (in this case PRONOUNCE).
  • Note that bolded black text is sometimes used to compare other category tags (such as ENDORSE).
  • Pay special attention to brackets, as they mark the span of tags.

Recall that [ENDORSE] expresses the writer’s alignment with an external source.

  • [ An interview by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) ]SOURCE concerning national identity [ revealed ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that 50% of those interviewed feel that they think of themselves more as citizens of the world than any particular country, up from 45% in 1993.

However, if the writer is expressing alignment with their own source, then [PRONOUNCE] is used instead.

  • [ Chapter 3 of this paper ]ENDOPHORIC [ revealed ]PRONOUNCE-PRIMARY that 50% of those interviewed feel that they think of themselves more as citizens of the world than any particular country, up from 45% in 1993.

This includes references to the author’s argument.

  • Further analysis is required to compare analytical and numerical finite element solutions. However, this example [ shows ]PRONOUNCE-PRIMARY that both solutions were on the same order of magnitude.
What’s NOT pronounce?

Although the author may show “assessment of high probability” (e.g., He must be lying.; I’m convinced that he is lying), these are still expansive. So, these are still classified as ENTERTAIN. In other words, even if the percieved probability is high, they still present it as one of the potential alternative views (ENTERTAIN). Martin and White (2005) writes:

Accordingly, as assessments of probability, such modals are dialogically expansive – they still ‘entertain’ the possibility of dialogistical alternatives. Pronouncements, in contrast, do not ‘entertain’ alternative positions in this way but, as we have demonstrated, are directed towards challenging and dismissing an alternative viewpoint.

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