Our commentary is mainly concerned with Kissine's first argument in his 2021 target article: that mind reading not necessarily needed for pragmatics. We fully agree Kissine, and we present (i) additional recent empirical evidence support of this view (ii) a new model pragmatics reading, based on the situation language use rather than type pragmatic phenomenon instantiated. The last part our con...

utilizing the resources of the web in educational practices has made instructional processes more efficient and interesting and has made the learning process on the other hand much easier and attractive. with the web, english language teachers now have the option of engaging learners in online (web-based) instructions in addition to the use of conventional classroom instructions or alternativel...

The findings from a number of recent studies indicate that, even in cases of successful bilingual first language acquisition, the possibility remains of a certain degree of crosslinguistic influence when the choice between syntactic options is affected by discourse pragmatics. In this study we focussed on the use of referring expressions, prime candidates to test the interaction between syntax ...