interlanguage pragmatics (ilp) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. one of the under-explored domains of l2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ilp knowledge. therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (ipls) used by high vs. low l2 pragmatic achi...

This chapter focuses on the amount of pragmatics practice needed for promoting accurate and speedy recognition and production of requestmaking forms in L2 Chinese. Over four consecutive days, an input group (n=17) and an output group (n=17) practiced using target request-making forms via computerized input-based and output-based practice activities, respectively. Meanwhile, a control group (n=1...

The barrage of new trends and new foci in language teaching and learning can create a sense of unease among language educators, pulling them in many directions, as linguistic, cultural, technical, and educational considerations compete for time and space in their conceptual frameworks. It is a feeling shared by all those who are engaged in second language acquisition (SLA). Indeed, the burgeoni...

Semantics is concerned with meaning: what meanings are, how meanings are assigned to words, phrases and sentences of natural and formal languages, and how meanings can be combined and used for inference and reasoning. The goal of this chapter is to introduce computational linguists and computer scientists to the tools, methods, and concepts required to work on natural language semantics. Semant...

This paper reflects some thoughts on" pra@matic~ in'the context of a Speech Understanding'.System which is currently developed at the University ErlangenNuernberg. After a brief outline of the system,s ~structure with an emphasis on the characteristics of the parser and the knowledge representation scheme we present some of the underlying theoretical considerations. The main part of the paper d...

In this paper, we investigate focus markers in Catalan that can take on discourse-particle readings. We two elements have not been studied from a formal linguistics perspective so far: the adverb precisament ‘precisely’ and particle també ‘also’. demonstrate these feature interpretations identify as type of meaning familiar discourse particles languages other than Catalan. After having outlined...

The generative grammar approach to language seeks a fully explicit account of the modular system of knowledge (competence) that underlies the human language capacity. Similarly, the relevance-theoretic approach to pragmatics attempts an explicit characterisation of the subpersonal systems involved in utterance interpretation. As an on-line performance system, however, it is subject to certain a...

The paper glosses the pragmatic inference of presupposition in a way different from what has been mentioned elsewhere in the previous researches. All researches conducted on this inference viewed it as an internally linguistic system. To have figured it that way, the writer of This paper thinks that is the main reason which made a linguist like Levinson(1983) to consider it as partially underst...

In communicating, humans sometimes need to show directly what they mean. The use of language in communication between dating is a form discourse. Besides discourse being use, also an utterance. Discourse analysis based on context is, course, inseparable from the pragmatics. Pragmatic literary works has been done—analysis novel Bumi Manusia by Pramodya Ananta Tour, translated into English Max. T...