Producing narrative is a skill that must be acquired in order to become a competent language user in a first as well as in a second language. In children, narrative competence is often acquired late (Karmiloff-Smith, 1979), in part because children only start stringing sentences together regularly, once they have acquired the linguistic skills necessary to form sentences. Cohesive discourse, ho...

A comprehensive pragmatic theory will certainly have to address both these issues. In the search for such a comprehensive view of pragmatics a question immediately arises: how are socio-pragmatics and cognitive pragmatics related? One answer given in the literature is that the two domains are separate and socio-pragmatics controls cognitive pragmatics in the sense that socio-pragmatic entities ...

The paper summarizes post–World War II research on the understanding of Swedish by Danes and vice versa. Self-evaluation results as well as test results point to increased mutual comprehension. Preliminary results from ongoing investigations on both sides of the Øresund are given. They suggest a number of possible future scenarios, the most realistic prediction being that the wellknown language...

The study of second language acquisition (SLA) concerns not only the way to learn a (L2), but also unique system created by learners (interlanguage). This qualitative analyzed EFL learners’ interlanguage focusing on their strengths and weaknesses in speaking English, especially phonological, grammatical pragmatic competence English. data were obtained from recorded conversation between two non-...

Defining Pragmatics offers a conceptual survey of the delimitation of pragmatics. We identify the problems that have plagued attempts to define the field. Such endeavors occupied pragmatists quite a lot in the 1970s and 1980s, but when no satisfactory solution was found, researchers simply settled into separate niches and practices of how to do pragmatics. Some, perhaps even most, pragmatists s...

Classical Gricean pragmatics is usually conceived as dealing with far-side pragmatics, aimed at computing implicatures. It involves reasoning about why what was said, was said. Near-side pragmatics, on the other hand, is pragmatics in the service of determining, together with the semantical properties of the words used, what was said. But this raises the specter of 'the pragmatic circle.' If Gr...

Pragmatics and Systemic -functional Grammar (SFG) used to ignore each other and lack in communication, however, in certain aspects they are indeed in a position to complement each other. This paper mainly discusses on one hand the bases for the complementary relation between pragmatics and systemic -functional grammar (CR-P&SFG), on the other hand the main aspects concerning the CR-P&SFG. Pragm...

The present research investigates the acquisition of the English locative alternation by Korean EFL learners, which poses a learnability paradox taking Pinker’s framework of learnability theory as its basis. It focuses on two questions (1) whether the broad-range and narrow-range semantic constraints are operative in the interlanguage of Korean EFL learners as they are in L1 children’s and (2) ...