OBJECTIVE To understand how prepared UK medical graduates are for practice and the effectiveness of workplace transition interventions. DESIGN A rapid review of the literature (registration #CRD42013005305). DATA SOURCES Nine major databases (and key websites) were searched in two timeframes (July-September 2013; updated May-June 2014): CINAHL, Embase, Educational Resources Information Cent...

this study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (sc) in oral referential communication by iranian efl learners. referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore english students...

Many have proposed that autobiographical stories do more than describe a pre-existing self. Sometimes narrators can change who they are, in part, by telling stories about themselves. But how does this narrative self-construction happen? Most explanations rely on the representational function of autobiographical discourse. These representational accounts of narrative self-construction are necess...

Homesigners are deaf individuals who have grown up in the absence of a conventional language model and co-created unique communication system with their hearing relatives other interlocutors. This paper presents first analysis Other-Initiated Repair (OIR) sequences as window into pragmatic competence homesigners. Our conversation analyses based on 2:24 h video data from five homesigners interlo...

Understanding the relationship between experts and laypeople is crucial for under-standing today’s world of post-truth contemporary crisis liberal democracy. The emergence has been linked to various phenomena such as a flawed social mass media ecosystem, poor citizen education, manipulation tactics powerful interest groups. paper argues that problem is, however, more profound. underlying issue ...

This paper examines the relationship between verbal and visual semiotic cues by analyzing how semiotic cues position speakers interactionally and communicate implicit evaluative messages in one television news story. The paper summarizes an analysis of this news story that my collaborator and I have done based solely on verbal cues (Wortham & Locher, 1996). Then the paper analyzes the visual cu...

second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...