background: pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts  that  provides accurate interpretation   of   intentions.   the   occurrence    of   the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. methods: since the objective of this study was to assess different  aspects of pragmatic...

This article describes the morphosyntactic annotation of the C-ORAL-BRASIL speech corpus, using an adapted version of the Palavras parser. In order to achieve compatibility with annotation rules designed for standard written Portuguese, transcribed words were orthographically normalized, and the parsing lexicon augmented with speech-specific material, phonetically spelled abbreviations etc. Usi...

The study examines the genre-defining features of speech genre “reminder” in virtual pedagogical discourse. relevance research is determined by its inclusion problems modern discourse studies (the problem discursive conditioning genre) and pedagogy involving computer technologies as a means platform for learning information-educational environment). Based on T. V. Shmeleva’s survey, act are des...

The present study examined the different levels of (im)politeness strategies in expressing request, apology, and refusal speech acts across intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners to identify their attitudinal ratings of their produced structures in terms of pragmatic success and (im)politeness mannerism. A discourse completion test including 2 Likert scales on attitudinal appropriatenes...

BACKGROUND Some childhood speech and language impairments precede psychosis but it is not clear whether they also precede adolescent psychotic experiences and whether this association is specific to psychotic experiences. METHODS Pragmatic language and expressive speech and language (parent-assessed using the Children's Communication Checklist) at age 9 and psychotic experiences and depressio...

In this work, a spontaneous speech corpus of broadcasted television material in European Portuguese (EP) is presented. We decided to name it ProGmatica as it is meant to combine prosody information under a pragmatic framework. Our purpose is to analyse, describe and predict the prosodic patterns that are involved in speech acts and discourse events. It is also our goal to relate both prosody an...

In this work, a spontaneous speech corpus of broadcasted television material in European Portuguese (EP) is presented. We decided to name it ProGmatica as it is meant to combine prosody information under a pragmatic framework. Our purpose is to analyse, describe and predict the prosodic patterns that are involved in speech acts and discourse events. It is also our goal to relate both prosody an...

earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

This paper is about the cognitive foundations of pragmatic theories. Besides the fact that the usual appropriateness conditions for speech acts, which are given in cognitive terms, such as S knows/believes/wants ... (that) p , require empirical investigation, a sound theory of pragmatics must also explain how certain utterances in certain contexts are actually understood as certain speech acts....

In the present work, we describe and discuss two studies in field of motivating-speech research. The investigate voice-quality features (study 1) pragmatic aspects 2) German motivating speech, thereby adding to current state-of-the-art understanding speech language 1 . We find indications that a low amount breathiness, more periodic signal balanced distribution specific elements contribute impa...