As an Islamo-Arabic utterance,throughout the history of Islam, “Allahu Akbar” has been widely used as one of the most influential religious slogans since the advent of Islam in the 7th century CE. However, during the last four decades, it has gained a fairly global reputation thanks to various functions it has pragmatically come to serve in different social settings. Recentl...

This study aims to delve into the unobservable dimensions of deciding and acting in a pragmatically significant speech event. Utilizing a Discourse Completion Test questionnaire, it seeks to find out the structure and pragmatic functions that lie behind EFL learners’ choice of specific wording while engaged in performing a recurrent speech act in Iran i.e. compliments. To this aim, 30 EFL learn...

This paper deals with the traditional distinction between necessary and unnecessary loanwords as a problematic one because it marginalises functions of so-called loanwords. By adopting cognitive-linguistic approach, this aims to highlight importance both types from language user’s point view. To end, we examine anglicisms in Montenegrin on basis new pragmatic model which distinguishes catachres...

Objectives: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have problems in communicating and social interaction skills. Moreover, deficits in pragmatic language and executive functions are among the most important causes of communication and social interaction problems in this group. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between executive functioning and two of its indices (behav...

The scientific article continues the number of researches dealing with theory text. author studies pragmatic functions repetitions in informational newspaper texts, namely – weather forecast reports “The Washington Times”. achievement goal mentioned above is subject to fulfilment following tasks: it necessary characterize elements redundancy and find specific features such kind texts. Moreover,...

Japanese linguistic politeness has long been observed by linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians, educators and many others who are interested in Japanese language and culture. It has become a common impression that Japanese people as a whole, whether they are old or young, well educated or less educated, rich or poor, men or women, behave in a polite manner in human...

The Arabic discourse-pragmatic feature ya3ni occurs frequently in natural interactional settings. Several studies have reported that (lit. ‘I mean/it means’) has developed a wide range of functions many spoken varieties such as Egyptian (Elshimi, 1992; 1993; Marmorstein, 2016, 2021a), Gulf (Owens & Rockwood, 2008), Libyan (Gaddafi, 1990), and Syrian (Alkhalil, 2005; Habib, 2021). Although t...