This study investigated the effects of different output-based task repetition conditions on EFL learners’ speech act production. Three intact classes of English-major students constituted three instructional groups: (1) the explicit task-repetition (ETR) group, (2) the implicit task-repetition (ITR) group, and (3) the no-input task repetition (NTR) group. All the three groups engaged in t...

Audience metadiscourse refers to the speech choices made by speakers indicate their metapragmatic awareness of audience. It encompasses expressions including directly referring audience as “you” and “we”, generic expressions, imperative rhetorical interrogative expressions. This study primarily focuses on describing analyzing representational forms, pragmatic functions, different reflected in s...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

This study examines pragmatic resistance as a choice made by Chinese learners of Korean and the factors that contribute to this choice. Data were collected from 46 upper-intermediate language through three different tools, including Discourse Completion Tasks, metapragmatic questionnaires, retrospective interviews. Findings showed participants chose resist native norms in over 40% their answers...

Mock impoliteness, a term encompassing wide array of phenomena (e.g., banter, teasing, mocking, jocular mockery, abuse/insults, humour, etc.), has long been grounded in the framework (im)politeness. However, research on participants’ metapragmatic evaluations mock impoliteness is scarce, with exception Sinkeviciute (2017). This aims to investigate third-party evaluation Danmaku comments Chinese...

Typographic mimicry is the wrapping of writing in a “foreign dress,” i.e. use typefaces which one’s script (e.g. Latin) made to visually resemble different Chinese) with goal evoking associations “foreign” culture. First, this paper addresses formal aspects practice, specifically choice visual features be mimicked. The core part then focuses on typographic as social practice and includes discus...

This study investigates the communicative practices in English and German online discussion fora as exemplified by two thematically related sample threads. Combining first- second-order approaches to (im-)politeness, paper focuses on question of how participants use intergroup rudeness a means in- outgroup construction examines is metapragmatically negotiated discussions unfold. The results sho...

alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. these approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (bachman, 1990; bachman & palmer, 1996). the present study tries t...