This research was an attempt to find the relationship between English discourse markers and their Farsi translations. It was conducted in order to find out whether DMs translations completely demonstrate source texts orientation and to what extent DMs translations are functionally appropriate compared to the original text? Six instruments were used. Three of them were the original English books...

This document gives an overview of the current state of the SVOX text-to-speech (TTS) system, which has been developed at TIK/ETHZ. Conceptual considerations Correctly reading aloud a text requires far more than word pronunciation knowledge. In general, complete understanding of the semantic content and of the pragmatic context is necessary, regardless of whether a human or a machine is reading...

The speech act theory by J.L.Austin and the conception of degree strength illocutionary force (point) J.R. Searle D.Vanderveken underlies study exercitive as objection/protest expressed prepositions contro against ‘против’. Historically, protest a genre goes back to Ancient rhetorical tradition, but in 20th century, it has also become an aesthetic foundation Avant-garde poetic discourse. expres...

In the course of field work, linguists, just like other anthropologists, spend a great deal of time listening to people talk about what they are doing. The resulting data form a corpus of speech about speech, a "meta-corpus" as it were, that consists of speech at the same time that it seems to talk about, or characterize, speech as a meaningful social action. In reply to our queries or spontane...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the relative timing of syntactic and pragmatic anomaly detection during sentence processing. Experiment 1 was an eye movement study. Experiment 2 employed a dual-task paradigm with compressed speech input, to put the processing routines under time pressure. Experiment 3 used compressed speech input in an anomaly monitoring task. The outcomes of th...

Although previous research has established that multiple topdown factors guide the identification of sounds during speech processing, the ultimate range of interaction across levels of linguistic structure is still unknown. In a set of experiments, we investigate whether interactive effects emerge between the two most disparate domains: pragmatic inference and acoustic speech perception. We use...

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 student...

This study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among Iranian Turkish/Persian EFL learners. Data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a WDCT with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.They w...

Among topics in the field of pragmatics, some seem to be in a more rigorous need of investigation. Pragmatic assessment and specifically the issue of pragmatic rating are among issues which deserve more thorough consideration. The purpose of this study was to examine rater criteria and its consistency and variability in the assessment of Iranian EFL learners’ production of compliments based on ...