the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

The paper considers the phenomenon of entrepreneurial pitch as a speech genre mass media subtype business discourse. communicative and pragmatic specificity was explored using sample 30 pitches from television reality shows "Dragons' Den" (Great Britain) "Sharks Tank" (USA, Australia). methodology is based on studying semantics, pragmatics style characteristics pitches, well methods cognitive a...

A parting gift.

Today’s writing instruction performance is greatly aided by oral and nonverbal communication. This study intends to contextualize the lecturer’s visual modes regarding paralinguistic features in class. Data were gathered from PSETs’ self-rated questionnaire that durably video recorded. analysed using IBM SPSS version 20 for descriptive factor analysis, as well ELAN’s software non-verbal linguis...

It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...