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Signals of metapragmatic awareness in internet-mediated discourses [PDF]
Studia Linguistica Hungarica, 2021 This paper offers an investigation of signals of metapragmatic awareness on the basis of the background assumptions of functional pragmatics. In this framework, metapragmatic awareness means the reflexive attitudes of discourse participants to various ...
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An Explicit/Implicit Lead to Producing Requests: Eliciting Learners’ Awareness or Soliciting Metapragmatic Knowledge [PDF]
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2016 This study attempted to investigate the extent to which two types of pragmatic instruction -explicit versus implicit- affect learners’ knowledge in terms of their awareness and production of request strategies.
Ariana, Nasim +2 more
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Verbal humour in primary school children: Development of metapragmatic awareness
Feminismo/s, 2014 This paper focuses on some aspects of humour acquisition, based on the analysis of humorous narratives written in Spanish by 9-10-year-old schoolchildren. The analysis is supported by three main ideas.
Larissa Timofeeva
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German, Spanish and Mandarin speakers metapragmatic awareness of vague language compared [PDF]
Journal of Pragmatics, 2019 English vague language (VL), as in general noun phrases, general extenders and general verbs, is central to casual conversation. It can have discourse functions and create an informality and solidarity.
Cutting, Joan
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AmpersandIn Vietnamese English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, pragmatic misalignments, where teacher intent and student uptake diverge, are common yet undertheorized in teacher education.
Trut Thuy Pham, Thanh Thao Le
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Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) is a widely recognised goal for learners of English as an additional language (EAL). An important aspect of ICC is understanding how communication is shaped by cultural expectations (i.e., metapragmatic ...
Priska Pramastiwi (8518719)
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, 2017 This chapter examines metapragmatic disclaimers (e.g., ‘I know you might probably think that I’m rude, but’) from the perspective of socio-cultural pragmatics. Drawing on insight from Mey’s (Pragmatics. Blackwell, Oxford, 2001; Pragmatic acts.
Vahid Parvaresh (16655835)
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Learning irony in school: Effects of metapragmatic training [PDF]
Irony comprehension requires going beyond literal meaning of words, and is challenging for children. In this pre-registered study we investigated how teaching metapragmatic knowledge in classrooms impacts written irony comprehension in 10-year-old ...
Penny M. Pexman +5 more
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The Effect of Self-Assessment and Conference on EFL Students’ Production of Speech Acts and Politeness Markers: Alternatives on the Horizon? [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2013 Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language ...
Parviz Birjandi, Maryam Pezeshki
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The Effects of Explicit Pragmatic Teaching on Young Learners' Pragmatic Development
The Journal of International Lingual Social and Educational Sciences, 2021 A large body of literature has examined the role of explicit teaching on L2 pragmatics. Previous research findings confirmed that explicit teaching has a positive impact on the development of L2 learners’ pragmatic competence.
Hüseyin Caner Canbolat +2 more
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