Speech acts shape the core of pragmatic competence and their mastery is a prerequisite for successful dis- course encounters in an L2. Cross-cultural comparisons, as claimed by Johnstone (2018), are very effec- tive for knowing and acquiring the speech acts. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to compare a limited number of communicative routines in English and Persian within the f...

Pada hakikatnya, realisasi prinsip kesantunan digunakan untuk menunjukkan citra baik aparatur desa sebagai orang yang santun di tengah masyarakat. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut, mengendalikan percakapan dengan cara mengatur pola tutur, memberikan, mengambil giliran mengatasi penyimpangan, dan kesalahpahaman. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan penggunanaan kesantuanan tindak tut...

Abstract: Over the last few decades, several aspects of pragmatic knowledge and its effects on teaching  and  learning  a  second  language  (L2)  have  been  explored  in  many  studies.  However, among  various  studies,  the  area  of  interlanguage  pragmatic  (ILP)  assessment  is  quite  novel issue and many features of it have remained unnoticed. As ILP assessment has received more atten...

For most people, their greatest intellectual feat is the acquisition of their native language. The virtual universality of individual success should not mask the awesome complexity of the task. Any five-year-old can tell the difference between “It rains, but it does not snow” and “It rains, but it does not matter”, instantly spotting the elusive words to which the impersonal pronouns refer. The...

This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after fourteen weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/ cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted ethnographic projects. Data consisted of inter...

The present study compares the voice quality of female and male speech in two languages: Czech, a Slavic language, Danish, Germanic language. For both languages, results based on total 120 vocally healthy speakers are line with claim that females universally breathier than males. This was supported by Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) H1*-H2* measures, which generally known as most robust correlat...