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 ...

We undertake a corpus-based diachronic analysis in order to explore how leaders China and Hong Kong have employed metaphors of EDUCATION major governmental speeches reports both before after Kong's handover from Britain China. The results this study demonstrate that SAR Chief Executives similar patterns source domain selections with Chinese Premiers as compared Colonial Governors, indicating th...

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...

This study attempts to investigate the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic development of Iranian EFL learners cross-sectionally when making requests in different situations. To this end, 103 university students in three proficiency levels of pre-intermediate, upper-intermediate, and advanced were asked to write three discourse completion tests (DCTs) of requests in different situations...

The current paper is an attempt to approach feminism in Sociopragmatic structures. It pragmatically tackles this feminist work. Consequently, it aims to: explain the socio-pragmatic structure of discourse that elements which theortical wor under study composed; identify most frequently straetgies are made use depicted work study;To fulfil hypothesized Speech acts, deixis, presupposition, conver...

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...

Within the IS research field, there are many views on how to understand the use of IT systems. Within the community of organisational semiotics, Stamper’s semiotic framework has been used as a tool to understand information systems at different abstraction levels. Another theory related to organisational semiotics, Information Systems Actability Theory (ISAT), argues that social action theories...

This study aims to analyze the strategies for responding praise used by Hasanuddin University students. research is a qualitative using descriptive method and approach in this socio pragmatic approach. The data from were obtained questionnaires distributed researchers. After was obtained, researcher analyzed answers respondents 12 response according Holmes, after which they linked theory of ind...