This paper provides an action research account of why and how UML use cases and socio-technical analysis were combined and used to support the development of an information system, using Multiview/WISDM as the framework of ideas. Significant learning points from, and the motivation for, the research is that a focus on task satisfaction and socio-technical evaluation, rather than on the broader ...

This paper does not intend to summarize all the achievements and problems of the Bangladesh economy or the economic challenges facing us in the future. I presume readers will be well-informed of the contours of our economic development and the challenges we face. Instead, I wish to argue that we need to think both radically and pragmatically to identify the critical strategies and policies that...

L2 research has shown that instruction in L2 pragmatics is necessary. The current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on EFL learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. It also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the L2 classroom. Iranian undergraduate students maj...

Title of Document: PRAGMATIC ENRICHMENT IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND DEVELOPMENT Shevaun N. Lewis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics The goal of language comprehension for humans is not just to decode the semantic content of sentences, but rather to grasp what speakers intend to communicate. To infer speaker meaning, listeners must at minim...

A common problem in model-driven software development processes is the tracing of requirements across different phases of the software development life cycle and multiple levels of abstraction down to the code level. Because debugging at the model level is not feasible yet, unwanted or unexpected behavior of the executable system needs to be analyzed at the code level at run-time and in a feedb...

In this study, the use of speech-like pragmatic markers in Iranian EFL students’ academic writing was investigated. Speech-like pragmatic markers, such as I think, well, I guess, actually, anyway, anyhow, etc. are linguistic components that are more specific to conversation than writing, and writers may wrongly include them in their academic writing. To examine the students’ use of speech-like ...