The article has three main concerns: (i) it gives a concise introduction into optimality-theoretic pragmatics; (ii) it discusses the relation to alternative accounts (relevance theory and Levinson's theory of presumptive meanings); (iii) it reviews recent findings concerning the psychological reality of optimality-theoretic pragmatics and its central part concept – bidirectional optimization. A...

the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

The present article focuses on exploring formulemes in English and Ukrainian from a translatological perspective. multiword units under study constitute specific type of clichés alongside nickname clichés, termemes sentencemes. distinctive characteristic this class phrasemes is that they designate ritualized speech act which correlates with an internal state the speaker, moment time, or event a...

As we know, Pragmatics is the way convey meaning through communication, so study aims at student’s opinions on use of English language as a means communication and to show significance function, context, authentic situations develop pragmatic competence in Sudanese Language university learners. To achieve objectives, used questionnaire address questions objectives. 150 employed students partici...

in this article, on the basis of habermas’ universal pragmatics, we have tried to indicate that empirical pragmatics in linguistics, suffers from ‘normativity deficit’ in the field of foreign language education. what we mean by ‘normativity deficit’, is the lack of normative resources required for judging the validity claims inherent in social interactions. since agreement on the validity claim...

onveying a strong message within a language stems from not only a linguistically appropriate utterance but also a pragmatically appropriate discourse. Broadly considering various facets of pragmatics, pragmatic assessment has not been potentially brought into perspective. To address this discourse gap, this study, guided by the principles of mixed-method design, pursued three purposes: ...

So far Natural Language Processing (NLP) research patronized much of manually augmented lexicon resources such as WordNet. But the small set of semantic relations like Hypernym, Holonym, Meronym and Synonym etc are very narrow to capture the wide variations human pragmatics knowledge i.e. a news article containing the themes, “Iraq”, “Al-Qaeda”, “9/11” and “Osama Bin Laden” might suggest the to...

This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the research questions, the methods and tools that are being used for the analysis, as well as the nature of...

Part I Pioneering Approaches 2 Changing Ideas about Reference 25 Herbert H. Clark and Adrian Bangerter 3 Psycholinguistic Experiments and Linguistic-Pragmatics 50 Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 4 On the Automaticity of Pragmatic Processes: a Modular Proposal 72 Sam Glucksberg 5 Reasoning, Judgement and Pragmatics 94 Guy Politzer 6 Exploring Quantifiers: Pragmatics Meets the Psychology of Comprehension 1...