We present a definiteness annotation scheme that captures the semantic, pragmatic, and discourse information associated with noun phrases, which we call communicative functions. A survey of the linguistics literature suggests that definiteness does not express a single communicative function but is a grammaticalization of many such functions, for example, identifiability, familiarity, uniquenes...

Nowadays the omnipresence of advertisements, and necessity conscious subconscious mental interpretation their hidden messages, can hardly be overlooked. In present article, authors attempt to provide additional evidence for role multimodal metaphor, metonymy, conceptual blending in cognitive mechanisms involved understanding and/or correct printed non-commercial advertisements overall communica...

The article is devoted to the problem of teaching a foreign language for specific purposes. paper emphasizes need develop functional communication skills in foreign-language professional environment as well an intercultural communicative competence. approach usually associated with peculiar way grammar, but at present it seems appealing consider functionality discourse from cognitive perspectiv...

Genre studies have its reach in almost all of the written materials available either through printed copies or online publication. Studies genre provided a glimpse structure and order which spoken text are constructed. The importance analysis lens cannot be understated. study aimed at investigating textual features that identify restaurant menus as genre. From moves/steps lexico-grammar, five m...

This chapter examines interpreters' and health care providers' perception and management of communicative contexts and strategies in interpreter•mediated medical encounters. We recruited 26 professional medical interpreters from 17 languages and 32 health care providers from four specialties to participate in in-depth interviews and focus groups. Our findings suggest that no one has the sole au...

This paper highlights the folk perception of impoliteness among Ghanaians in view of Watts’ (2003) notion of first order impoliteness. The study showed that impoliteness is not just an opposite of politeness, but the manifestation of non-cooperation, disapproval, and mutual antipathy through certain communicative behaviours that signal disrespect. These communicative behaviours include ‘interru...

Despite of the different functions of pitch in tone and nontone languages, rises and falls are common pitch patterns across different languages. In the current study, we ask what is the language specific phonetic realization of rises and falls. Chinese and Dutch speakers participated in a production experiment. We used contexts composed for conveying specific communicative purposes to elicit ri...

The objectives of this study were to explore pharmacy students' perceptions and experiences of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) as an instructional tool for clinical pharmacy teaching. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with Master of Science in Pharmacy students who had participated in communicative exercises in a 3DVW. Interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed and analy...