Interlanguage pragmatics and instructional pragmatics: two vibrant and illuminating research fields [PDF]
, 2019 *** **
Liana Fetter, Giselle +2 more
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Dialogizing Communication through Pragmatic Markers
ELOPE, 2008 The paper discusses the meta-communicative features of pragmatic markers. Communication is approached from the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism, which is seen as a two-way process between interlocutors in speech.
Bledar Toska
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Parenthetical 'I say (you)' in Late Medieval Greek vernacular: a message structuring discourse marker rather than a message conveying verb [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, I argue that the first-person singular of the "ordinary" verb lambda epsilon gamma omega/lambda alpha lambda(omega) over tilde ('I say') in the thirteenth-to fourteenth-century political verse narratives Chronicle of Morea and War of Troy ...
Soltic, Jorie
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The pragmatic markers anyway, okay, and shame: A South African English corpus study
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2013 Pragmatic markers are “a class of short, recurrent linguistic items that generally have little lexical import but serve significant pragmatic functions in conversation” (Andersen 2001:39).
Huddlestone, Kate, Fairhurst, Melanie
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On general extenders in literary translation and all that stuff
Open Linguistics, 2023 The present article focuses on strategies for translating general extenders (GEs) from English into Romanian. Starting from the generally accepted definition of GEs as structures that extend utterances that are otherwise grammatically complete and that ...
Vișan Nadina
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen +11 more
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The Effect of Different Types of Instruction and Feedback on the Development of Pragmatic Proficiency: The Case of Pragmatic Markers [PDF]
Research in English Language Pedagogy, 2013 The necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for English language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance ...
Saeedeh Shafee Nahrkhalaji
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Stance-taking in Spanish-speaking Preschoolers' Argumentative Interaction [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this study is to determine what linguistic resources are used for stance-taking in confrontational interactions. For this purpose, we analyze 70 argumentative sequences in spontaneous peer conversations during play situations of 4 dyads (2 mid
Migdalek, Maia Julieta +2 more
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There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English
Journal of Pragmatics, 2023 The upper ranks of corpus word frequency lists are primarily populated by functional items, as well as by other small words characterised by their polysemy that reward focussed attention and research. Exploring these items has resulted in rich and fruitful insights from a corpus pragmatic perspective. This paper focuses on the nature and value of there
Brian Clancy +2 more
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Do you "(Mis)Understand" What I Mean? : Pragmatic Strategies to Avoid Cognitive Maladjustment
Journal of English Studies, 2011 This article studies misunderstanding as a key factor in identifying the psychological basis of interactional cognitive maladjustment. The study focuses on the linguistic strategies to avoid pragmatic misunderstanding employed in conversations in Spanish
Jesús Romero-Trillo, Elizabeth Lenn
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