This article explores the linguo-pragmatic potential of hedging, which is a means speech insurance. The purpose study to identify and describe linguistically hedging used by journalists in Swiss articles on economic issues, taking into account peculiarities language situation German-speaking Switzerland. An attempt made determine pragmatic function identified instruments. materials are fragment...

To date, little research on pragmatic transfer has considered a multilingual situation where there is an interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Of interest was whether pragmatic transfer of refusals among three languages spoken by the same person occurs from L1 and L2 to L3, L1 to L2 and then to L3 or from L1 and L1 (if there are more than one L1) to L2. This study ai...

pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. the importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that american...

The issue of correct discourse management is important in speech general and media particular, namely interviews. If we take dialodicality - the peculiarity an interview as a genre into account, which characterized by duality (it means double process giving receiving information: communication between journalist respondent on one hand, based this communication, editor reader other), Fluent doub...

Pragmatic markers (PM) play an important role in the generation and organization of oral speech any language. This article is devoted to a comparative study use PM eto samoe (ES) different types Russian speech, recorded three corpora: corpus everyday “One Speaker’s Day” (real, mostly dialogic speech), monologue “Balanced Annotated Textbook Library” (monologues obtained under experimental record...

This study investigated the effects of English as foreign language (EFL) proficiency on what the authors of this study called pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic recognition of EFL learners. To elicit the data, the study used two types of pragmatic measures: a pragmalinguistic recognition (PLR) test and a sociopragmatic recognition (SPR) test. Both tests were developed by the researchers of thi...

This study investigated the effects of English as foreign language (EFL) proficiency on what the authors of this study called pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic recognition of EFL learners. To elicit the data, the study used two types of pragmatic measures: a pragmalinguistic recognition (PLR) test and a sociopragmatic recognition (SPR) test. Both tests were developed by the researchers of thi...

Aim. To analyze historical formation of the terms “discourse” and “discursive marker” their current interpretation. Methodology. Content analysis, as a key research method, enables author to study dictionaries linguistic well researches devoted issues discourse discursive markers. The analyzed content terms, summarized information made number conclusions. Results . At present stage development ...

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 ...

This paper argues that stylistically and pragmatically high-quality spoken language translation requires the transfer of pragmatic information at an abstract level of "utterance strategies". A new categorization of spoken language phenomena into essentially non-meaningful "speech errors", and purposeful "natural speech properties" is introduced, and the manner in which natural speech properties...