The purpose of this article is to examine methodological challenges in the study of computer-mediated learning communities and propose strategies for advancing research methodology. Two major methodological issues are addressed. First, there is a growing concern for researchers to address a broader range of social, political, and cultural factors when studying computer-mediated learning communi...

Current semantic theory on indexical expressions claims that demonstratively used indexicals such as this lack a referent-determining meaning but instead rely on an accompanying demonstration act like a pointing gesture. While this view allows to set up a sound logic of demonstratives, the direct-referential role assigned to pointing gestures has never been scrutinized thoroughly in semantics o...

/ have given the term pragmatic failure' to the inability to understand 'what is meant by what is said'. In this paper I argue that pragmatic failure is an area of cross-cultural communication breakdown which has received very little attention from language teachers. I suggest that there is one area of pragmatic failure ('pragmalinguistic failure') which is fairly easy to overcome. It is simply...

As China's red tourism continues to heat up, it not only attracts Chinese people study, but also welcomes more foreign tourists in recent years. At this time, the English translation of public signs and publicity materials is prominent. Under background, under guidance theories such as cross-cultural pragmatic translation, a field survey was conducted on current situation major tourist attracti...

In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. Linguistic processing is informationally encapsulated and utilises relatively simple ‘taxonomic’ lexical semantic knowledge. On this basis, defeasible lexical generalisations deliver defeasible parts of logical form. In contrast, pragmatics is open-ended and involves arbitrary knowledge. Two axioms specify when ...

The current era of globalization and emergence English as an international language (EIL) has brought about new opportunities for L2 pragmatic learning teaching. common view approximation to native-likeness is changing towards conceiving ability a tool interact with people different cultural linguistic backgrounds, the majority whom are non-native speakers (NNSs) English. While such reality wid...

The book entitled "Pragmatics of Social Media" was edited by Christian Hoffmann and Wolfram Bublitz published in 2017. This is the 11th volume “Handbooks Pragmatics” series which consists 13 separate volumes, entire provides an ample overview field language studies, especially about Pragmatics. book, for first time Germany, publisher De Gruyter Mouton. has 724 pages consisting 5 (five) subjects...

Following a thorough survey of the available literature and concentrating on the wax and wane of testing pragmatic competence so far, the present study firstly is an attempt to develop a comprehensive test of inter-language pragmatics mainly focusing on academic situations in the Iranian context. Secondly, the study aims to investigate the criteria required for the selection of speech acts of a...

An interesting issue for any mentalist approach to pragmatics is whether the utterance comprehension system is an autonomous processor within the overall cognitive system or consists of processes carried out by an unencapsulated central inferencing system. Two approaches to pragmatics which claim to involve modular subsystems in utterance understanding are discussed (Barton's contextual submodu...