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Language, 2013 There has been a recent spate of work on recursion as a central design feature of language. This short report points out that there is little evidence that unlimited recursion, understood as center-embedding, is typical of natural language syntax. Nevertheless, embedded pragmatic construals seem available in every language.
Levinson, S. C.
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An Overview of Pragmatism and Pragmatism Assessment
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2020 From the time Stalnaker (1974) asked for the development of a pragmatic theory to take into account a detailed explanation of linguistic context, still there is not an agreed-upon theory to explain pragmatic knowledge (Roever, 2011). Due to the vital importance of reliability and validity in language assessment, it is imperative to develop a construct ...
Samran Daneshfar, Ali Hashemi
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Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and coastal Spanish [PDF]
, 2008 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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An investigation of the use of the IMRAD format for Biology students' laboratory reports [PDF]
Nastava i VaspitanjeAcademic discourse serves as a platform for the systematic communication of scientific findings, with laboratory reports being a primary type employed by researchers and students.
Brahmi Manel, Nesba Asma
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The origin and development of pragmatics as a study of meaning: semiotic perspective
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 Pragmatics has grown into a flourishing independent academic discipline. Undefined and unsolved are, nevertheless, such confusing and controversial concerns in its evolution as research boundaries and uncertain definition.
Niu Min
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آداب الكوفة, 2021 Clinical pragmatics is a sub-discipline of clinical linguistics and deals with the various situations in which communication can malfunction or function insufficiently. It also focuses on the various reasons that may cause poor communication.
Farid Al-Hindawi, Alaa Khazali
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Action and Ethics. A Historical Perspective on the Late Frankfurt School (Apel, Habermas, Wellmer) [PDF]
, 2016 I shall delineate what I see as the strength and relevance of transcendental-pragmatics within the intellectual setting in the post-war period. I shall indicate how the discussions within transcendental-pragmatics have revealed inherent challenges, while
Skirbekk, Gunnar
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Questions of context in studies of talk and interaction—Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis [PDF]
, 2008 The questions dealt with in this special issue of Journal of Pragmatics are doubly vexed. The first matter at issue is that the papers I have solicited take on some aspects of the debate within, and between, ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation ...
McHoul, A.
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