away from these: To do otherwise would be to make our proposal unduly speculative.) Next, we explain how positing two processes accounts for our data about pragmatic abilities in ASD, while leaving the deficit-based methodology safe from the threat seemingly posed by the abilities we have uncovered. As a first pass at the contrast between primary and secondary pragmatic processes, consider func...

The present investigation sought to comparatively explore the effect of length of residence (LOR) as well as EFL instruction on the pragmatic competence of Iranian learners. The participants were 45 EFL learners in Iran and 45 learners in Canada selected based on snowball sampling and each group was divided into three sub-groups based on the years of learning English in an EFL or a natural sett...

One of the theories accounting for pragmatic development of L2 learners is Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural  theory.  This  study  investigated  the  development  of  EFL  learners'  pragmatic competence through the lens of an important concept of Vygotsky’s theory, i.e.  the  zone  of proximal  development.  The  study  was  conducted  to  answer  two  questions.  The  first  question was wheth...

Veryfew attempts have been made in the past to develop instruments to measure pragmatic knowledge of second language (L2) learners. The absence of such instruments in the literature of English language teaching (ELT) underscores the need for the researchers to develop new tests that are specifically designed to assess this crucial but less explored aspect of language learners’ (LLs) knowledge. ...

l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate students maj...

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...

the present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate efl learners. one hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss and specify some pragmatic language categories that could be used as attributes in spontaneous speech corpora, especially the corpora used for developing speech-to-speech translation systems components. When developing the speech-to-speech translation, researchers have to deal with spontaneous (conversational) speech phenomena like hesitations, turntaking beh...

Purpose. The purpose of this article is to describe the peculiarities functioning discourse markers in institutional format mediation discourse.
 Methodology. General scientific methods and specific linguistic (contextual analysis, continuous sampling method, pragmatic analysis discourse) were used research.
 Results. This study deals with as a tool structuring. Particular attention p...