It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue for researchers. To respond to the inconclusive findings in intervention studies and to extend the instructional studies in L2 pragmatics to les...

Background: Several studies in interlanguage pragmatics have reported Russian directive speech acts to take a particular position within the dimensions of linguistic politeness and (in)directness, when compared some Germanic Romance languages extensively studied this framework.Purpose study: The present paper aimed investigate role language specific cues requests by examining their perception n...

Abstract Nuclear stress (or sentence stress) as a prosodic feature marks information flow in spoken English, and has received some treatment the linguistics literature, most notably pragmatics, but less so newer phonological paradigms. Current theories might shed light on this feature, such Optimality Theory (OT) cognitive grammar (CG). This paper compares potential insights likely predictions ...

With an eye to increased efficiency, agent communication language (ACL) designers have heeded the analogy with natural language and introduced elements from natural language pragmatics (NLP) into their designs. However, ACL pragmatics has not availed itself of NLP advances to the extent that it could. While a few aspects of pragmatics are incorporated, most notably speech acts, their inclusion ...

As a prevalent phenomenon in second language acquisition (SLA), crosslinguistic influence (CLI) has attracted ever-lasting attention, as reflected by the publication of several monographs (e.g., Cai, 2021; Jarvis & Pavlenko, 2008; Odlin, 1989; Ringbom, 2007), many edited volumes Alonso, 2016; Gass Selinker, 1983), and numerous research articles. In these books papers, mounting evidence for ...

Nghiên cứu này tìm hiểu nhận thức ngữ dụng học và năng lực của hai nhóm sinh viên chuyên ngành tiếng Anh (trình độ cao trình thấp) thông qua sự diện lỗi, đánh giá mức nghiêm trọng lỗi thuộc về pháp dụng. Vì đối tượng nghiên là trước đây hầu như không học, nên các mục đích bao gồm: trả lời câu hỏi liệu có được chính giảng dạy trong chương hay không. Dữ thu thập Phiếu diễn ngôn (Discourse Complet...