the present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native english speaking students’ (nness) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native english speaking students (ness) and compared learners ...

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 ...

Clinical pragmatics is a sub-discipline of clinical linguistics and deals with the various situations in which communication can malfunction or function insufficiently. It also focuses on reasons that may cause poor communication. The current research theoretical survey attempts to shed some light what its scope. This field covered general. More specifically, study answer following question: Wh...

Abstract This paper investigates how pragmatics can be deployed to interpret non-standard usages in the context of English language users. There are two important linguistics keys interpreting meanings English: and grammatical competence. For effective communication, a decoder must competent at levels. Many researchers Nigeria have agreed that, Nigerian has come stay, therefore, we need look be...

Models and methods of rational choice theory naturally suggest themselves as excellent candidates for formal accounts of pragmatic inferences conceived in a Gricean fashion as the result of interpreting language use as rational human action. This paper spells out a particular way of using game theory in linguistic pragmatics and assesses weaknesses and strength of the suggested approach. The pa...

This study investigated language function associated with behavior problems, focusing on pragmatics. Scores on the Children's Communication Checklist Second Edition (CCC-2) in a group of 40 adolescents (12-15 years) identified with externalizing behavior problems (BP) in childhood was compared to the CCC-2 scores in a typically developing comparison group (n=37). Behavioral, emotional and langu...