The present study aimed to review the instruction of the L2 speech acts in English pragmatics in the Iranian context during the last two decades from 2000 to 2020. To this end, upon the completion of the study search, the retrieved articles were selected and analyzed based on the research domain.  The results of our synthesis from 54 studies carried out on the instruction of the speech act not ...

This  paper  focuses  on  some  pragmatic  expressions  that  are  characteristic  of  informal  spoken English, their possible equivalents in some other languages, and their use by EFL learners from different  backgrounds.  These  expressions,  called  general  extenders  (e.g.  and  stuff,  or something), are shown to be different from discourse markers and to exhibit variation in form, funct...

fMRI was used to examine the brain activity of 18 young adults while they read or heard matched sentences that were either well-formed or contained anomalies of syntactic form or pragmatic content. We examined specific regions of interest (ROI) based on activity patterns found in earlier research. We sought: a) brain regions that respond robustly to both speech and print; b) regions that are se...

Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

This research is based on people’s behavior in communicating social media, especially Facebook, which currently developing without boundaries. In expressing their thoughts, a person often does not maintain ethics and provisions media. For personal gain, individuals or groups of people use language for the purpose humiliating, insulting, degrading defaming other society they dislike. phenomenon ...