A dialogue agent is one that can interact and communicate with other agents in a coherent manner not just with one shot messages but with a sequence of related messages all on the same topic or in service of an overall goal Following the basic insights of speech act theory these communications are seen not just as transmitting information but as actions which change the state of the world Most ...

Originating from Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory, dynamic assessment (DA) proposes a novel approach to second language acquisition (SLA) research according to which a dialectical relationship is envisaged between instruction and assessment. Although DA has been applied to some areas of SLA, there are areas, such as interlanguage pragmatics (ILP), that have been neglected.  To address the issue,...

The shift of emphasis away from written to oral skills has stimulated an incipient concern in second language research to investigate ways of helping second and foreign language learners achieve higher degrees of oral proficiency. Priority solely taken over accuracy, complexity, or fluency of speech might be justifiable with regard to the context in which learning takes place.  Accuracy and com...

Pragmatics studies the use of language in human communication different social backgrounds and contexts (Mey, 2001). In field pragmatics, analysis speech act constitutes one majority related research (Austin, 1962). Speech is significant to linguistic phenomena that occur spoken language, particularly movies. For this study, it choose movie Love Actually as data investigate acts, greeting. Brit...

the issue of speech act is a significant issue in pragmatics. speech acts encapsulate lectionary, illocutionary and perloctionary forces. i have dealt with what is said in speech. what is said is an achieved action. to be achieved, this action depends on presuppositions or prior assumptions between the speaker and the recipient of speech. the speaker discusses his previous references to make hi...

Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ILP knowledge. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) used by high vs. low L2 pragmatic achi...

originating from vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, dynamic assessment (da) proposes a novel approach to second language acquisition (sla) research according to which a dialectical relationship is envisaged between instruction and assessment. although da has been applied to some areas of sla, there are areas, such as interlanguage pragmatics (ilp), that have been neglected.  to address the issue,...

the purpose of this study was to examine cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from l2 [english] to l1 [persian]) in refusals to invitations. it explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in l1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of efl learners. the participants were persi...

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

Refusals are complex face-threatening speech acts whose appropriate performance requires not only lengthy sequences of negotiation and cooperative achievements, but also face-saving strategies to accommodate the disruptive nature act (Gass & Houck 1999). Also, since they have a face threatening nature, subject cultural variations. Consequently, care must be taken in choice refusal strategie...