Task-Based Approach as an Effective Tool in Developing Pragmatic Competence
The challenge of realizing the value of pragmatic competence development in the current curriculum has been a long struggle in most language classes across the globe.
Leo D. Rayon, Jr.
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Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and coastal Spanish [PDF]
Book synopsis: This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation ...
Placencia, Maria Elena
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Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs) [PDF]
This paper focuses on how culture can be treated as an explanatory variable in cross-cultural pragmatic studies. It starts with a review of pragmatic maxims [Grice, H. Paul, 1989. Logic and Conversation. William James Lectures, 1967. (Reprinted in Grice,
Brown +23 more
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Establishing diagnostic criteria: the role of clinical pragmatics [PDF]
The study of pragmatic disorders is of interest to speech-language pathologists who have a professional responsibility to assess and treat communication impairments.
Cummings, L
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in the use of appropriate interactive language (including structural language and pragmatic skills) in social contexts.
Jinhuan Yang, Wentao Gu, Chen Feng
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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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Beyond the literal meaning of words in children with klinefelter syndrome: two case studies [PDF]
Literature on children with Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) points to general linguistic difficulties in both comprehension and production among other cognitive functions, and in the majority of cases, these coexist with an intellectual level within the norms.
Melogno, Sergio +3 more
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Interrelation between social and general cognition: current state of problem
The paper discusses the existing methodological and methodical difficulties in researching of interrelation between social and general cognition. Investigation of this communication is hampered by the fact that recent studies carried out in the framework
Malyukova D.A.
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Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) scores in 11-year-old children with communication impairments [PDF]
Background: The pragmatic skills of children with communication disorders and their assessment are currently an issue for speech and language therapy and educational placement.
Botting, N.
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Negation 'presupposition' and metarepresentation: a response to Noel Burton-Roberts [PDF]
Metalinguistic negation (MN) is interesting for at least the following two reasons: (a) it is one instance of the much broader, very widespread and various phenomenon of metarepresentational use in linguistic communication, whose semantic and pragmatic ...
Carston, R
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