Abstract In two perception experiments we explore the social indexicality of numerical expressions, comparing evaluation three variants: precise (e.g. ‘forty-nine minutes’) vs. explicitly approximate ‘about fifty underspecified ‘fifty minutes’). We ask questions: (i) What constellations meanings are associated with each these variants? (ii) How such indexical associations modulated by conversat...

This article presents an autoethnographical account of my foray into Spanish immersion education in Costa Rica as a professor of multilingual education at a university in Canada. This language-learning journey was inspired by curiosity about the growing trend for Internet marketing of second-language learning as a form of tourism, which I label edu-tourism. I map the course of my edu-tourism ex...

The article determines on the base of sociopedagogical approach in process sociopragmatic competence foreign students at university as necessary condition their social adaptation to life new circumstances country. formation is considered institutional and environmental, interactive inactive levels analysis.

Information Systems Research is being attributed of having no substantial philosophical foundation. A review of contemporary literature reveals not only positivism as the dominating paradigm of human inquiry, but also an increasing criticism and the rise of alternative paradigms. Referring to postmodern organization theory allows a different perspective on IS research, which is based on an epis...

The phenomenon of hate speech occurring in one's nation and the relationship between social media celebrities their audience is very interesting to draw. Social has changed how people interact, comprehend, respond online discourse. This paper looks at topics posted by as sources information through lens dimensions persona hostile fan comments impoliteness theory Crystal's language technology, r...

This study investigated the effects of English as foreign language (EFL) proficiency on what the authors of this study called pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic recognition of EFL learners. To elicit the data, the study used two types of pragmatic measures: a pragmalinguistic recognition (PLR) test and a sociopragmatic recognition (SPR) test. Both tests were developed by the researchers of thi...

This study investigated the effects of English as foreign language (EFL) proficiency on what the authors of this study called pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic recognition of EFL learners. To elicit the data, the study used two types of pragmatic measures: a pragmalinguistic recognition (PLR) test and a sociopragmatic recognition (SPR) test. Both tests were developed by the researchers of thi...