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PRAGMALINGUISTICS: PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE

open access: yesHumanities science current issues, 2023
Natalia LEBEDIEVA, Valentina TYMKOVA
openaire   +1 more source

The interface between the area of freedom, security and justice and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union: legal constraints to political objectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper argues that the objective of increased foreign policy coherence, as expressed in the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme of the European Union (EU), faces significant legal obstacles.
Van Elsuwege, Peter
core   +1 more source

How Consumers Contest Legitimacy: Skepticism Toward Corporate Social Responsibility

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer skepticism toward Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives operates not only as an individual‐level response but also as a societal governance mechanism that disciplines firms and reshapes organizational legitimacy. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with consumers in an emerging Latin American economy, this study advances an ...
Francine Zanin Bagatini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Generative Artificial Intelligence in education: Models, Frameworks and the proposal for a new vertical K‐12 Digital Curriculum

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This contribution critically analyses the main international educational frameworks for teachers' digital competence, highlighting both critical issues and potential in relation to their professional development and the need to update school curricula.
Daniela Marzano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practice opportunities and pragmatic change in a second language context: the case of request [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Pragmatic competence is considered to be part of a non-native speakers (NNSs) communicative competence and has been included in the models of communicative ability (Canale and Swain, 1980; Bachman, 1990; Celce- Murcia et al., 1995.
Alcón Soler, Eva   +1 more
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Modeling and experimental validation of bolt–grout bond–slip behavior for deep underground excavation support

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
A novel shear‐lag model, validated by pull‐out tests, incorporates a constant bond stress stage to predict the complete load–displacement response of grouted rock bolts, providing a new tool for optimizing anchorage length and material toughness in deep underground engineering. Abstract The stability of rock masses in deep underground excavations, such
Wenhui Bian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of Psychological Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescents: A Critical Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Although international treatment guidelines for eating disorders recommend varying psychological approaches for adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN), most existing reviews have combined adolescent and adult samples, leaving the overall evidence base for this population poorly defined.
Renée A. Broersma   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Pragmatic Competence on Saudi Translators’ Performance

open access: yesمجلة الدراسات الاجتماعية
This study aims to investigate the effect of pragmatic competence on the performance of Saudi translators. The researchers used a quantitative method to conduct this study.
Meshari Ali Alsairi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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