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English Language Teaching Educational JournalPragmatic competence is essential for communicative competence, yet under-researched in Saudi EFL contexts, particularly within the post-pandemic shift to digital instruction.
Mohammad Husam Alhumsi, Wesam Almehmadi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño +2 more
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Managing Madness: The ethics of identifying and treating mental illness [PDF]
, 2019 This essay analyzes different contemporary models for defining mental illness and offers a new framework that promotes the use of normative values during the clinical diagnostic process.
Seely, Mason
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study identifies and conceptualises the grey zone of stakeholder engagement and explores how it manifests in a collaborative context related to the promotion of a circular economy. While prior research on stakeholder engagement has highlighted the positive, value‐creating bright side or the harmful dark side of stakeholder engagement, we ...
Annika Blomberg +2 more
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Automatic Card Shufflers and Antitrust Litigation: An Arbitration Perspective
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines an American Arbitration Association (AAA) class action proceeding in which Mohawk Gaming Enterprises LLC alleges that Light & Wonder Inc. and L&W Gaming Inc. fraudulently obtained and enforced patents, thereby monopolizing the market for automatic card shufflers and violating Sections 2 and 3 of the Sherman Act.
Tariq K. Alhasan
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Pragmatic Competence in Action
BabyloniaThis article explores primary school learners’ pragmatic productions during an English ‘Spot the Difference’ task. Drawing on CEFR Companion Volume descriptors, the study analyses peer interactions among 6th-grade students in German-speaking Switzerland,
Luzia Sauer, Margarida Pereira
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Pragmatic Competence and Intercultural communication
, 2018 Globalization has intensified communication among people with different first languages and of different cultures. As a result, misunderstandings and communication breakdowns mark many intercultural encounters as participants rely on the norms of their mother tongue and native culture to interpret and create meaning.
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Practice opportunities and pragmatic change in a second language context: the case of request [PDF]
, 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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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the challenges and support needs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in adopting standardized sustainability reporting, taking the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) as an empirical case of formal standardization.
Filippo Cavaliere +2 more
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