The pragmatics component of SPEECHLIS is a process which applies various facts about the speaker, the previous dialogue, and the domain of discourse to interpret utterances and respond appropr iately. For example, an early version of the system operates as a question answerer for the domain of lunar geology. In that domain one is usually not concerned with the particular scientists who investig...

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...

The present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate EFL learners. One hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

representations of contexts, recall, assign specific values to variables (§3.3.6). This includes the standards variable s. Hence the inductive premise is false given any abstract context c. (For instance, if we assume a context c1 such that sc1(rich) = 100, then n = 99 provides a counterinstance: x99’s degree of wealth isn’t at least as great as the degree standard of richness in c1, but x100’s...

Abstract Taking an interpersonal pragmatics approach, this paper aims to view literary text as social discourse where conversational exchanges convey more than the content of talk. Applying method pragmatic analysis, centred around notions implicatures and concept face in pragmatics, status speakers is revealed via expressing their personal desires, preferences professional ambitions. Combining...

The present study aimed to review the instruction of the L2 speech acts in English pragmatics in the Iranian context during the last two decades from 2000 to 2020. To this end, upon the completion of the study search, the retrieved articles were selected and analyzed based on the research domain.  The results of our synthesis from 54 studies carried out on the instruction of the speech act not ...

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...