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 ...

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 ...

The current study, which employed a new analysis approach -an explicit and implicit data collection method-, investigates the perception of English modal verbs by forty-six Saudi EFL undergraduate learners. Findings revealed that students struggled with semantic functions modals more than pragmatic ones. Deontic possibility like can might were most challenging forms for Functional complexity, i...

Abstract In the Valencian Community in Spain, coexistence of Spanish and Catalan as co-official languages English a foreign language, which is learned third language (L3), shapes unique multilingual setting. This study examined extent to learners’ use two interpersonal pragmatic markers (PMs), i.e., hedges (e.g., I believe ) attitude fortunately ), related across whether relationship changes ov...

This  paper  focuses  on  some  pragmatic  expressions  that  are  characteristic  of  informal  spoken English, their possible equivalents in some other languages, and their use by EFL learners from different  backgrounds.  These  expressions,  called  general  extenders  (e.g.  and  stuff,  or something), are shown to be different from discourse markers and to exhibit variation in form, funct...

We study the logical properties that characterize pragmatic inferences and we show that classical understanding of notions such as entailment and defeasibility is not enough if one wants to explain infelicities that occur when a pragmatic inference is cancelled. We show that infelicities can be detected if a special kind of inference is considered , namely infelicitously defeasible inference. W...

This paper offers an analysis of metalinguistic comparatives such as more dumb than crazy in which they differ from ordinary comparatives in the scale on which they compare: ordinary comparatives use scales lexically determined by particular adjectives, but metalinguistic ones use a generallyavailable scale of imprecision or ‘pragmatic slack’. To implement this idea, I propose a novel compositi...

In the era of globalization, EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers have nominated to weld instruction and aspects intercultural competence together. Howbeit, literature on topic promulgates that procuring pragmatic remains high-priority quest for learners worldwide. This paper delineates use blended learning model teach in an context. quasi-experimental study sought probe into potential ...