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The Impact of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Meta-Pragmatic Awareness on Their Classroom Practices and Teaching Strategy Development [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and LearningInstructing interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) is essential for effective second language communication. The present study set out to investigate the impact of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ meta-pragmatic awareness on their classroom ...
Behnood Samani +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts +4 more
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User Perceptions of Endearment Love and Regional Identity in Northern England
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the contemporary pragmatic scope of the endearment love and its indexical links with British regional identities as perceived by English language users in the United Kingdom. Popular metapragmatic stereotypes often associate the term with specific ‘northern’ English, working‐class and White socio‐ethnic identities ...
Nicole Baumgarten
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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Navigating Hierarchies and Culture: Exploring Greek University Students’ L2 Email Perceptions
LanguagesThis qualitative study investigates how Greek university students navigate the complex dynamics of their hierarchical student–faculty L2 email interactions.
Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 967-982, September 2026.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Appeals to Semiotic Registers in Ethno‐Metapragmatic Accounts of Variation [PDF]
, 2019 Discussions of folklinguistic accounts of language use are frequently focused on dismissing them because of their limitations. As a result, not a lot is written regarding how such accounts are done and how they ‘work’.
Cara Penry Williams +2 more
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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014 AbstractThis paper aimed to investigate the effects of self-assessment-based instruction on the acquisition of speech acts of suggestion, complaint, and request. Its second aim was to investigate the accuracy of students’ pragmatic rating as measured against teacher rating using WDCT.
Pakzadian, Sarah Sadat, Tajeddin, Zia
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¿Y dónde está la gracia? El humor en el aula de ELE
Foro de profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera, 2017 Resumen: El presente trabajo muestra el fenómeno pragmático del humor como un instrumento idóneo para suscitar la reflexión sobre el uso y funciones del lenguaje en los estudiantes de ELE.
Esther Linares Bernabeu
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 452-465, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
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