This paper investigates the use of reduplicated English elements as aspects Nigerian usage in speech events among participants Calabar, a multilingual city Southern Nigeria. The study adopts Variationist Sociolinguistics and Sociopragmatic Competence theoretical foundations because both account for occurrence variation semantic change resulting from interference L1 other factors. data were gene...

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...

few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

Few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. This study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. To this end, 60...

/ 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...