Purpose. The purpose of this article is to describe the peculiarities functioning discourse markers in institutional format mediation discourse.
 Methodology. General scientific methods and specific linguistic (contextual analysis, continuous sampling method, pragmatic analysis discourse) were used research.
 Results. This study deals with as a tool structuring. Particular attention p...

Abstract The formulation of requests has been widely studied in pragmatics, both within a (variety of) language and from contrastive perspective. In this study, we will show the specific role alerters (elements that precede request head act serve to get attention hearer on request) formulation, comparing L1 speakers Spanish L2 with French Discourse Completion Tests Naturalised Interactions. doi...

Over the past two decades researchers have increasingly become aware of the fact that language teaching can benefit from the field of discourse analysis and pragmatics. This paper analyzes the applicability of the so called problem-solution pattern to the teaching of writing. An experiment was conducted in order to test M. Hoey’s (2001) belief that the pattern can serve as a ready-made template...

The purpose of this study was to compare apology strategies used by Iranian EFL learner students and native English speaking students (NSS) in formal and informal situations. The aim was further to investigate gender differentiation among participants. For this purpose, data were elicited from 40 Iranian (16 males and 24 females) and 40 native English speaking students (20 males and 20 females)...

The ability of an automatic speech recognition system (ASR) to output multiple recognition hypotheses is becoming increasingly important. For example in dialogue systems and machine translation systems where the ASR must interact with modules that handle discourse, semantics and pragmatics. Passing multiple recognition hypotheses to the higher levels of the system is a way of increasing the cou...

This paper examines certain distinctive discourse properties of preposed negative yes/no questions (NPQs), like Isn’t Jane coming too?. Unlike other types of polar questions, NPQs ∼p? invariably convey a bias toward a particular answer, where the polarity of the bias is opposite of the polarity of the question: using an NPQ ∼p? necessarily expresses the speaker’s prior expectation that the posi...

The following main ideas have been pointed out and put to work within our paper: (a) Information Structure (IS) theories (topic-focus, theme-rheme, background-contrast, informational and contrastive focus, focus projection rules, etc.) on text are shown to behave currently as a consistent linguistic tool that can stand behind a correct, language and contextual-depending, mapping of text into sp...

Entity linking refers to the task of assigning mentions in documents to their corresponding knowledge base entities. Entity linking is a central step in knowledge base population. Current entity linking systems do not explicitly model the discourse context in which the communication occurs. Nevertheless, the notion of shared context is central to the linguistic theory of pragmatics and plays a ...

Research of discourse analysis and pragmatics suggests that English language assumes a three-part feature in communication: locution, illocution, and perlocution. Therefore, the teaching of communicative English language should follow the same pattern. But for years, the classroom teaching as well as the teaching materials in China focuses mainly on locution, but ignores the other two aspects, ...