What approach is applied in teaching English single-sex education (SSE) and Islamic boarding schools particular? Some studies report that the language proficiency of Boarding School students remains unimproved. Although it apparent SSE makes teachers apply instructional strategies more readily effectively than mixed-sex groupings, suitability approaches or methods by Schools unanswered. The ord...

This paper reports on patterns of verb choice in identifying relational clauses (e.g. ‘X is Y, Y is X’) in English technical manuals. While it is obvious that specific lexical verbs will feature in identifying clauses of different functions, e.g. mean (defining), call (naming), exemplify (exemplifying), less transparent is the distribution of these more specific verbs and the general or neutral...

As one kind of the legislative language, the language of bilingual legislation possesses its specific characteristics: the two versions share the same authenticity and effect. Therefore, the contrastive analysis of this kind of language from the perspective of pragmatics is more persuasive and authoritative. In this paper, the author chooses Crime Ordinance of Hong Kong and its subsidiary regul...

This paper describes the design and rationale behind a classification scheme for English margin comments. The scheme’s design was informed by pragmatics and pedagogy theory, and by observations made from a corpus of 24,387 margin comments from assessed university assignments. The purpose of the scheme is to computationally explore content and form relationships between margin comments and the p...

Abstract This paper attempts to identify general, cross-cultural cognitive factors that trigger the default commissive interpretation of assertions about one’s future action. It is argued that the solution cannot be found at the level of the semantics of the English will, or any other future tense marker, but should be sought in the structure of rational intentions, as combined with the pragmat...

Wells and Local ( 1983) intend to propose a thoroughly pragmatics-based explanationfor the unacceptability ofcertain instances ofaccented injinitival to, have, and be in English, in reaction to Zwicky and Levin’s (1980) argumentsfor a constraint couched in syntactic terms. A comparison ofthe two accounts serves as the vehicle for a discussion ofseveral larger issues: choosing between theoretica...

This study is focused on the capacities of pragmatics in ESL teaching and limited to three essential discussions; first, investigation relevancy stated elements, second, presentation effective ways by applying SURE steps (Brock Nagaska, 2005), elaboration effects towards learners. It necessary conduct a research teaching. Due problems discussed, theories suggested this include definition, pragm...

Classical Gricean pragmatics is usually conceived as dealing with far-side pragmatics, aimed at computing implicatures. It involves reasoning about why what was said, was said. Near-side pragmatics, on the other hand, is pragmatics in the service of determining, together with the semantical properties of the words used, what was said. But this raises the specter of 'the pragmatic circle.' If Gr...

Pragmatics and Systemic -functional Grammar (SFG) used to ignore each other and lack in communication, however, in certain aspects they are indeed in a position to complement each other. This paper mainly discusses on one hand the bases for the complementary relation between pragmatics and systemic -functional grammar (CR-P&SFG), on the other hand the main aspects concerning the CR-P&SFG. Pragm...