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Referring as a pragmatic act [PDF]
Journal of Pragmatics, 2010 Abstract Descriptions of pragmemes and pragmatic acts in Mey (2001) and Capone (2005) seem to reduce pragmemes to little more than illocutionary or perlocutionary types. Emphasizing the importance of context to the proper delivery and interpreting of speech acts scarcely justifies introducing new terminology: the importance of common ground ...
Keith Allan
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Multiple Intelligences as Predictors of Foreign Language Pragmatic Knowledge: The Case of Five Frequent English Speech Acts [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2020 Because of the important role of multiple intelligences (MIs) in learning a second/foreign langue (L2) as supported by the existing second language acquisition (SLA) literature, some pragmatic scholars have asked for studying their contribution to ...
Abdullah Sarani, Ali Malmir
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Pragmatique cognitive, argumentation et perlocution
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2020 This paper discusses the links between pragmatics (defined as the study of meaning in context) and the study of argumentation in order to ground a pragmatic approach to perlocution. Traditionally devoted to the study of illocutionary meaning, in the vein
Steve Oswald
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
, 2018 This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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ANALYZING COMPLAINTS BY INDONESIAN EFL SPEAKERS
Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature, 2014 The English language competence of an EFL learner can be reflectedin his pragmatic competence. Yet, for language learners and teachers a mastery of the pragmatic competence may unconsciously be neglected. In other words, it may not be taught in line with
Anna Marietta da Silva
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The constant forms: a ubiquitous and pragmatic ontogony
Aisthesis, 2023 According to Etienne Souriau, ontology must be grasped in light of an ontogonic perspective in which future is to be rebuilt permanently as an act. We show that “constant forms” support Souriau’s aim that ontogony must be both ubiquitous and pragmatic ...
Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarie
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IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 2021 ABSTRACT When a speaker says anything, there are specific goals beyond the words or phrases. This is an aspect of pragmatics. The activity performed by generated utterances is referred to as speech actions. Saying something can be used to perform an action. Speech actions allow the speaker to portray physical activity using just words and phrases.
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Pragmatic disorders and their social impact [PDF]
, 2011 Pragmatic disorders in children and adults have been the focus of clinical investigations for approximately 40 years. In that time, clinicians and researchers have established a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena that are disrupted in these disorders ...
Cummings, L
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How Much is at Stake for the Pragmatic Encroacher [PDF]
, 2019 “Pragmatic encroachers” about knowledge generally advocate two ideas: (1) you can rationally act on what you know; (2) knowledge is harder to achieve when more is at stake. Charity Anderson and John Hawthorne have recently argued that these two ideas may
Russell, Jeffrey Sanford
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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.
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