This paper reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate the cultural and social complexities governing the compliment responses among the Persian native speakers. 200 Persian respondents took a 24-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) while 15 native field workers were also set responsible for collecting the examples of complimenting exchanges they either observed or participated i...

Abstract Nuclear stress (or sentence stress) as a prosodic feature marks information flow in spoken English, and has received some treatment the linguistics literature, most notably pragmatics, but less so newer phonological paradigms. Current theories might shed light on this feature, such Optimality Theory (OT) cognitive grammar (CG). This paper compares potential insights likely predictions ...

Abstract Despite its prominent use among bilinguals, psycholinguistic studies reported code-switch processing costs (e.g., Meuter & Allport, 1999). This paradox may partly be due to the focus on itself instead of potential subsequent benefits. Motivated by corpus CS patterns and sociopragmatic functions CS, we asked whether bilinguals code-switches as a cue lexical characteristics upcoming ...

Abstrak Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengidentifikasi aspek sosiopragmatik pengungkap humor dalam pagelaran wayang Sasak lakon “Diwi Payunjali”. Data yang dikumpulkan berbentuk satuan lingual mengandung diperoleh melalui video tersebut. dengan metode simak teknik sadap dan dianalisis konstituen langsung referensial. Hasil analisis data menunjukkan bahwa lima digunakan sebagai Kelima tersebut pe...

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...

The members of a community have conventionalized linguistic structures to convey both the content message and social status interlocutors. Crucial in codification interpersonal relations are address terms, which determined by pragmalinguistic sociopragmatic norms (Leech, 1983:11) related language system, local communicative event broader context. study examines usage terms (direct address, refe...

The present study contributes to recent renewed interest in the social construction of folk linguistic knowledge and directs its focus a multilingual workplace. article reports on an in-depth sociolinguistic investigation European institution Luxembourg. Data were collected 2020–2021 with trainees permanent staff terminology communication unit. data collection triangulated qualitative technique...