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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 460-478, November 2025.Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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Short-term and long-term impacts of individual and collaborative pragmatic output on speech act production [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2014 Since the 1990s, a substantial body of interventionist interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research has probed the efficacy of various instructional pragmatics approaches, with speech acts serving as its prime target. The present study compared the short-term
Zia Tajeddin, Marzieh Bagherkazemi
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Sorry vs please, accept my apologies: teaching politeness explicitly to first grade high school students [PDF]
, 2016 Tesis (Profesor de Inglés para la Enseñanza Básica y Media y al grado académico de Licenciado en Educación)The purpose of this project is to determine how can we help students to develop a more native-like performance.
Guzmán Soto, María Paz +5 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
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A pragmática da interlíngua nos encontros de serviço: diagnosticando como espanhóis estudantes de inglês para a Indústria do Turismo informam os turistas em um centro de visitantes [PDF]
, 2017 This study explores the behaviour of (pre-)intermediate Spanish learners of English for the Tourism Industry at the transactional phase of a service encounter wherein they have to carry out one of the tasks for which they are trained: giving information ...
Martínez López, Nuria +1 more
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Interlanguage pragmatics in Turkish
Dil Dergisi, 2010 This study aims to investigate interlanguage pragmatics in Turkish. For this purpose, a discourse completion questionnaire including four request situations wasgiven to 33 learners of Turkish at a university in Istanbul, Turkey as well as 45Turkish native speakers in two different programs at the same institution.
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk +1 more
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Second Language Sentence Stress Assignment: Self‐ and Other‐Assessment
Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 832-862, September 2025.Abstract Research on second language (L2) pronunciation self‐assessment reports a general misalignment between self‐ and other‐assessment. This has been attributed to the object of self‐assessment, the self‐assessment task, the measures to which self‐assessment is compared, and speakers’ characteristics.
Cesar Teló he/him +3 more
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Learner's English Proficiency and Their Pragmatic Competence of Refusal Speech Acts [PDF]
, 2015 The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between language proficiency and pragmatic comprehension of the refusal speech act among Iranian EFL learners.
Farnia, M. (Maryam) +1 more
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