Investigating transfer of one’s pragmatic knowledge of first language to his second or foreign language has been one of the areas of interest for researchers. However, there are contradictory results even within the scarce studies which have addressed transferability. This study was an attempt to investigate perceived pragmatic transferability of L1 refusal strategies by Persian EFL learners. S...

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This research focuses on the problem of correlation between discursive modality and illocutionary force - with substantiating variations in as a pragmatic basis for scale-paradigm deontic modality, influencing binding international instruments. Guided by criterion explicitness implicitness markers, well their localization performative or propositional part, paper categorizes five classes commis...

The article is dedicated to studying communicative and pragmatic evidential constructions in newspaper political narrative. Based on the assumption that a subject represented as chain cooperation (“orderer” – editor journalist source journalist), markers of evidentiality are matched with reference information about events described behalf relevant information. Correlation between an discourse m...

second language  learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant pragmatic competence (kasper & roever, 2005) and the exact nature of the relationship between the two competences is still indistinct and in need of inquiries ( bardovi-harlig, 1999; khatib & ahmadisafa, 2011). this study is a partial attempt to address the lacuna and aims to see if any relation...

Pronouns used as tags ( It's funny, that ), comparable in certain respects to their much more widely studied question tag counterparts isn't it ? are a feature of the right periphery clauses some dialects British English. In this paper, we investigate co-occurrence ProTags with other pragmatic markers and find evidence support general ordering principle subjective > intersubjective, consistent ...