socio-pragmatic
Cognitive-pragmatic explanations of socio-pragmatic phenomena: the case of genre
... In this way, register information is easily accessible for fine-tuning expectations of relevance in the same way as explained for genre. The way in which register and genre enter into comprehension are the same. This ...
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The Socio-Pragmatic, Lexico-Grammatical, and Cognitive Strategies in L2 Pragmatic Comprehension: The Case of Iranian Male vs. Female EFL Learners
... more socio-pragmatic comprehension strategies compared to lexico-grammatical and cognitive pragmatic ...that socio-pragmatic knowledge is the most crucial factor in L2 pragmatic ...
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A Socio-pragmatic Study of Characters’ Names in Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed
... This study attempts an onomastic analysis of Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Six names of the major characters in the text are selected for the study. They are given an ...
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The Concept of Explicit and Implicit Speech Act Verbs Socio-Pragmatic Studies
... through socio- pragmatic aspects in order to show that different styles between men and women lead to different aspects of misunderstanding , specially between black and white people of ...
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Exaggeration in Congratulatory Expressions in Jordanian Arabic: A socio Pragmatic Study
... This study is an attempt to investigate exaggeration in congratulatory expressions that are used by Jordanian Arabic speakers. From a socio pragmatic view exaggeration in congratulatory expressions has not ...
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Exploring the Motif of Surprise in English and Persian: A Socio-Pragmatic Approach
... the socio-cultural and normative conventions as well as linguistic forms and strategies underlying the pragmatic import of the messages created in different communicative ...the ...
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Socio-Pragmatic Functions of Algerian Arabic/French Code-Switching: The Case of Tlemcen Speech Community
... Abstract: This work is a micro-sociolinguistic investigation of Code-switching (hereinafter, CS) in an Algerian context. It attempts to point out the socio-pragmatic functions of Algerian Arabic/French CS ...
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Socio-Pragmatic Problems in Foreign Language Teaching
... It is a fact that language is a means of communication for human beings. People who need to have social interaction should share the same language, beliefs, values etc., in a given society. It can be stated that when ...
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Commissive Speech Act patterns in two selected novels “Color Purple and to the light House Socio-pragmatic studies.
... which pragmatic meanings reflect ‘specific “local” conditions on language use’ (1983: 10), a sub-field of pragmatics that he distinguished from the study of more ‘general’ pragmatic ...of pragmatic ...
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Remarks on the Nature of Justification: A Socio-Pragmatic Perspective
... The justification of perspective is particularly important in pluralistic societies, in which actors are expected to defend their views, opinions and principles when exposed to those who do not share their ways of ...
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A Review Article of the Pragmatics-Based-Curriculum in EFL Context: Focus on the Curriculum in Iraq
... LoCastro (1997b) examined 17 Ministry of Education-approved textbooks of senior high school English. The purpose was to find out whether the textbooks entailed the resources of politeness and helped students develop ...
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Developing Pragmatic Competence in a Foreign Language
... universal pragmatic competence, by which L2 and FL learners distinguish principles and practices of turn taking and repair, discriminate between ordinary and institutionalized speech, differentiate acts of ...
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An Investigation into Logical Thinking Skills and Proof Writing Levels of Prospective Mathematics Teachers
... namely pragmatic proof, intellectual proof and demonstration proof. Pragmatic proofs, which exist at the lowest level, involve unrelated responses, proofs completely based on numerical examples- ...
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Full Issue
... Additionally, as noted by Ward and Rana- Deuba (2000), we do not know whether it is the quality or quantity of informal interaction that is of primary importance in language learning. Thus, it may not be the amount but ...
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A Pragmatic Approach to Machine Translation From Chinese to English
... A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM CHINESE TO ENGLISH A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM CHINESE TO ENGLISH Ching Yi Dougherty Herill College University of California Calif[.] ...
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Motivation, amount of interaction, length of residence, and ESL learners’ pragmatic competence
... L2 pragmatic acquisition (Han, ...community pragmatic norms after five to seven years of stay in the target language environment, and that such convergence correlated positively with duration of ...
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Fatigue Intervention by Nurses Evaluation – The FINE Trial. A randomised controlled trial of nurse led self-help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome: study protocol. [ISRCTN74156610]
... All three therapists deliver both the pragmatic rehabilita- tion and the supportive listening treatments. We chose this approach rather than having different therapists deliv- ering the different therapies in ...
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Skating on thin ice: pragmatic prescribing for medication refractory schizophrenia
... Caveats with our naturalistic study include that this was an exploratory analysis in a selected sample, in the absence of a control group and any blinding of assess- ments. As such it cannot be regarded as evidence based ...
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Defeating pragmatic encroachment?
... of pragmatic encroachment, one might reasonably demand better evidence before accepting such a surprising ...view, pragmatic encroachment isn’t merely a curiosity about particular cases; it is a consequence ...
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Fatigue Intervention by Nurses Evaluation - The FINE Trial. A randomised controlled trial of nurse led self-help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome: study protocol. [ISRCTN74156610]
... We needed a longer first face-to-face session to allow time for the delivery of the rationale for pragmatic rehabilita- tion and supportive listening. While two face-to-face ses- sions with the therapist were ...
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