This study investigated the impact of individual differences like language proficiency, gender and age on the Iranian EFL learners interlanguage pragmatics in institutional discourse especially, their capacity to recognize and to rate pragmatic and grammatical infelicities in speech act situations of request and apology.  To this end, one hundred and eighty-seven EFL university students at thre...

Discourse marker is a common language phenomenon in verbal communication including parts of conjunctions, adverbs, interjections, some phrases and small words. From the perspective grammar, these modifiers do not have many semantic meanings they are less related to sentences. However, from pragmatics discourse, discourse plays role organizing attracting hearer’s attention, expressing emotion at...

Abstract Objective: Discourse analysis is one of the clinical methods commonly used to assess language ability individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, majority published analytic frameworks are not geared for highlighting pragmatic aspect discourse deficits in acquired disorders, except those designed quantifying conversational samples. This study aimed examine how competence im...

The question of identity in a narrative text is one of the most influential questions that need further study. The variations in the factors that may affect the concept of identity add to the complexity of the narrative text. The study aims at analyzing the main phases, stages, themes and events of Moses’ life story as part of the narrative discourse. The effects of time and place on the main e...

pragmatic aspect of second language (l2) as a component of communicative competence has recently received more attention. many research studies have investigated the gap between native and nonnative speakers’ command of l2 pragmatics. however, development of l2 pragmatics has been the focus of few studies. in this study, how coursebooks can help both nonnative teachers and learners develop l2 p...

The development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has no doubt contributed to prompting a renewed interest in children’s narratives. This carefully controlled test narrative abilities elicits rich set measures spanning multiple linguistic domains and their interaction, including lexis, morphosyntax, discourse-pragmatics, as well various aspects structure, communica...

Based on theories in pragmatics, rhetoric, argumentation and discourse analysis, the genre of “journalistic film review”, relatively little examined, has been analysed this paper as a reflecting justified assessment. Our presented case study, concerns persuasive function titles 53 French francophone reviews. In act persuasion, anchored Perelman’s (1971) concept argumentation, corresponds to rhe...

Pragmatic aspect of second language (L2) as a component of communicative competence has recently received more attention. Many research studies have investigated the gap between native and nonnative speakers’ command of L2 pragmatics. However, development of L2 pragmatics has been the focus of few studies. In this study, how coursebooks can help both nonnative teachers and learners develop L2 p...