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The Assessment Tool Of L2 Learners' Pragmatic Competence: Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT)

, 2012
Research studies have shown that pragmatic competence is teachable. The importance of teaching pragmatics has also been recognized, but still foreign language teachers are reluctant to teach pragmatics in their classrooms. This might be partly due to the
Aufa, Fauzul
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Digital Transformation of Medicines Regulation in Africa—Perspectives from a Stakeholder Convening

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Regulatory authorities worldwide are developing strategies to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the lifecycle of health products, technologies, and medicines. While regulators share goals of improving efficiency, strengthening decision‐making, and protecting public health, their approaches differ according to institutional structures ...
Christelna Reyneke, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Varnika Singh, Khanyisile Nkuku, Madelein Terblanche, Ezekiel T Mukanga, Nancy Ngum, Kudakwashe Dandajena, McNeil Chimus Mhango, Paulyne Wairimu, John Mwangi, Dominique Lagrave, Goonaseelan (Colin) Pillai   +12 more
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Pragmatic competence: the speech act of request [Articol]

, 2011
In order to communicate efficiently in a foreign language it is not enough to know only the vocabulary and the grammar of the given language. Much more important is to know and use the sociocultural rules characteristic of the society whose language we ...
Cebotaroş, Viorica
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Vagal Tone as a Putative Mechanism for Pragmatic Competence: An Investigation of Carriers of the FMR1 Premutation. [PDF]

J Autism Dev Disord, 2019
Klusek J, Fairchild AJ, Roberts JE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Walking the Tightrope of Sustainability Reporting Standardization: Insights From Italian Small and Medium‐Sized Enterprises

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, Enrico Bellazzecca, Emma Edvige Zanchini di Castiglionchio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez, María Consuelo Pucheta‐Martínez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Consumers Contest Legitimacy: Skepticism Toward Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate 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, Marcelo Gattermann Perin, Janine Fleith de Medeiros   +2 more
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Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

Corporate 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

Sustainability Transitions in SMEs: Investigating Net‐Zero Adoption, Carbon Footprint Reduction, and Performance Outcomes

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research empirically validates an integrated framework that explains net‐zero‐emission adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Extending the Technological‐Organizational‐Environmental (TOE) framework with the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) perspective, the research explains how internal capabilities
Alanood Alremeithi, Fauzia Jabeen, Sherine Farouk, Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source