Having its roots in fields like information systems research, business administration and organization theory, knowledge management (KM) research is still far from having a consensus on its theoretical presuppositions – a thesis supported by the varying notions of knowledge found in the field. Based on a framework for the conceptualization of KM, we propose a sociopragmatic-constructivistic app...

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 ...

Information Systems Research is still said to have no substantial philosophical foundation. As human inquiry relies on social contextualization, shared language and common practice, several consequences for conceptual models and conceptual knowledge are resulting. With the approach of “sociopragmatic constructivism”, we seek to develop a philosophical foundation for the understanding of concept...

Recent  research  in  interlanguage  pragmatics  (ILP)  has  substantiated  that  some  aspects  of pragmatics are amenable to instruction in the second or foreign language classroom. However, there  are  still  controversies  over  the  most  conducive  teaching  approaches  and  the  required materials.  Therefore,  this  study  aims  to  investigate  the  relative  effectiveness  of  conscio...

This paper investigates how the French second person pronouns, tu and vous, are acquired by Korean learners of French. This is specifically approached from an interlanguage pragmatics research viewpoint, focusing upon the status of the learners’ pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic knowledge (whether they are explicit or implicit). It is hypothesized that Korean learners of French will face diff...

<p><em>A textbook is developed to provide language input for learners. The should contain appropriate use assist learners be able communicate effectively from the communicative competence perspective which focuses on pragmatics. For this reason, present study attempts investigate speech act presentation in a local English metapragmatic, sociopragmatic, and pragmalinguistics point of...

the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. the separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...

The pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. The separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...

/ have given the term pragmatic failure' to the inability to understand 'what is meant by what is said'. In this paper I argue that pragmatic failure is an area of cross-cultural communication breakdown which has received very little attention from language teachers. I suggest that there is one area of pragmatic failure ('pragmalinguistic failure') which is fairly easy to overcome. It is simply...

In this work, focusing on pragmatic failure in cross-cultural communication, taking 5 business English majors as respondents, and using a case study of five mock questions for communication scenarios, to explore the between these respondents. Pragmatic can be divided into pragmalinguistic faliure sociopragmatic failure. Although respondents master basic knowledge cross-cultural, it’s inevitable...