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Trilinguals' Identity Synergism Through Pragmatic Skills
Recent studies on bilingualism and pragmatics paid little attention to trilingual speakers. This investigation examined the trilinguals' identity synergism by drawing on their linguistic repertoire and discursive identity through pragmatic skills.
Esmaeel Ali Salimi, Hadi Abedi
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This study aimed to describe the refusal speech contained in the novel Sepasang Kaus Kaki Hitam by Ariadi Ginting (2017). The method of the study was the observasional method.
Sherly Sherly
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A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Serafín and Joaquín Alvarez Quintero s' ''Sunny morning''
Pragma-stylistic analysis of literary texts contributes to the readers' understanding of those texts as it would be a tool for them to interpret and analyze literary discourse. This paper explores the types of speech acts in the Quintero brothers' '
Asst. Lect. Khawla Shukor Mahmood Mohamm
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This study explores Turkish preschool children’s pragmatic competence with regard to their apology realization patterns. Children’s meta-pragmatic knowledge of apologies was tested and two different age groups (4;0-4;11 and 5;0-6;0) (N=100) were compared
Özge Gül ZEREY, Hatice SOFU
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Analysing the speech act of refusing in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy [PDF]
XXI Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2016)Appropriate refusal interactions may be a difficult task for learners of English in a foreign context since they tend to apply the pragmatic rules of their ...
Nieto Bernat, Davinia María
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An Analysis of Speech Act Used in London Has Fallen Movie
The most significant thing in speech act is the message that speaker wants to convey. It means when using language is not only produces a sentence but also perform an action.
Zulfa Tutuarima +2 more
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Cultivating L2 Pragmatic Comprehension through Computerized vs. Non-Computerized Instruction, Multiuser Virtual Environments (MUVEs) and Mobile Augmented Reality Games (MARGs) [PDF]
Pragmatic comprehension is a central albeit under-researched dimension of pragmatic competence in which most EFL learners suffer from serious deficiencies; therefore, the current study was launched to compare the effects of the Non-Computer Mediated ...
Amir shakouri +2 more
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The present paper attempts to present a pedagogical model for the integration of pragmatic competence in the foreign language classroom by following an inductive-deductive approach. For the sake of the current article, the pragmatic feature that has been
Alicia Martínez-Flor +1 more
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The kindergarten-path effect revisited: children’s use of context in processing structural ambiguities [PDF]
Research with adults has shown that ambiguous spoken sentences are resolved efficiently, exploiting multiple cues—including referential context—to select the intended meaning.
Weighall, A. R.
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Prosocial speech acts: Links to pragmatics and aging.
This study investigates how adults over the lifespan flexibly adapt their use of prosocial speech acts when conveying bad news to communicative partners. Experiment 1a assessed whether participants’ (N=100 ages 18-72) use of prosocial speech acts varied according to audience design considerations (i.e., whether or not the recipient was directly ...
Madeleine Long +2 more
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