This paper describes a framework for recognizing contradictions between multiple text sources by relying on three forms of linguistic information: (a) negation; (b) antonymy; and (c) semantic and pragmatic information associated with the discourse relations. Two views of contradictions are considered, in which a novel method of recognizing contrast and of finding antonymies are described. Contr...

Interlanguage pragmatics, as an inseparable part of communicative competence, has been emphasized as an ultimate objective in language learning. This study explored the perceptions of Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) students regarding interlanguage pragmatics and the impact of textbooks tasks on shaping their pragmatic competence. To accomplish this objective, 137 senior EFL student...

This conceptual article draws together perspectives from the research fields of Global Englishes and English medium instruction (EMI) to explore shared issues, critical perspectives, future agendas. While embedded in reality being a dominant global language academic lingua franca, both EMI lobby for promotion multilingual pedagogies, challenge native speaker hegemony, highlight importance teach...

Abstract In this paper we explore the nexus of language policy, ideology and power in linguistic landscape urban Rwanda. post-genocide Rwanda, English has been promoted gained status. This led to an increased usage on shop signs streets Kigali other towns Rwanda at expense both French Kinyarwanda. Unique quantitative data documented before 2008 are study compared collected 2018, same streets. f...

In this paper we present a proposal to integrate pragmatic information, both from the preceding discourse and the extra-linguistic context, in the grammar. We provide an analysis of elliptical fragments according to how they are anchored to the context and the kind of resolution they require. We also present an alternative view about the syntax of fragments.

In this article, we highlight the need to create a more Pragmatic Web which would act as an extension of the Semantic Web, where information is not only given a well-defined meaning, but the meaning is understood within the context it is used. Using foundations such as Tolk’s Dynamic Web model, we propose a Trust Model, dealing with the Social Web that we believe, would ‘complete’ the Pragmatic...

This paper is an initial attempt to evaluate the challenges of promoting a new national language as medium instruction (MOI) in post-socialist higher education (HE) context. In case Kazakhstan, choice MOI perceived key tool strengthen identity and resist domination Russian; sector policies are constructed foster cultural independence which translates into establishing Kazakh full-fledged academ...

this study examined the effect of explicit instruction of hedging on english forspecific academic purposes (esap) reading comprehension performance ofenglish language learning (ell) university students. a reading comprehensiontest was developed and validated as the pretest and the posttest. the test, includingitems for assessing the comprehension of the students in their area of specialization,...

This paper investigates the type of systematic sense alternation that rests on the count-mass distinction in English. Computational semantic approaches often suggest treating such sense alterations as being generated on the basis of a set of lexical inference rules, yielding, for instance, for an animal-denoting term, a meat sense ( ̳We‘re having rabbit for dinner‘), a fur sense ( ̳Annie is weari...