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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Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the use of general extenders (GEs), such as and stuff in English and et tout in French, in Paris French and London English. We aim to compare the social and the linguistic conditioning of extender use in the two languages, discuss the
Secova, Maria
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]
, 2015 Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen +3 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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PRAGMATIC MARKERS IN THE ASPECT OF COMMUNICATIVE ALIGNMENT
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2020 The article presents a model of communicative alignment in pragmatic markers (PM) use in Russian everyday dialogical communication. The main objectives are to check whether speakers coordinate their linguistic behavior not just with the use of lexemes ...
Ekaterina V. Troshchenkova +1 more
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Welche Sprache ist sie anyway?: Borrowed anyway/anyhow in Texas German [PDF]
, 2018 A common phenomenon when languages are in contact is for one language to borrow words or phrases from another and incorporate them into the native vocabulary.
Jesswein, Victoria
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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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A Comparative Study of Discourse Markers: The Case of three English Applied Linguistic Texts with their Farsi Translations [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2010 This research was an attempt to find the relationship between English discourse markers and their Farsi translations. It was conducted in order to find out whether DMs translations completely demonstrate source texts orientation and to what extent DMs ...
Bahram Behin +2 more
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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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The late Medieval Greek poetry : language, metre and discourse (University of Ghent, 2015) [PDF]
, 2015 In this contribution, I offer a summary of my 2015 Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Ghent on the language and metre of Late Medieval Greek poetry as they pertain to information ...
Soltic, Jorie
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