It is axiomatic that spoken language is highly variable, and that variability can be observed at nearly every level of linguistic structure, from the acoustic instantiation of speech sounds to the the information structure of long stretches of spoken discourse. Many of the chapters in this volume discuss empirical and theoretical studies of the production of linguistic structures. A challenge t...

Knowledge The resident will demonstrate an adequate knowledge of: 1) The meaning of the terms, “culture” and “cultural competence.” (1,3,6) 2) The different levels of knowledge and skills, as identified within the cultural competence continuum. (1,4,12) 3) The various cultural domains that have an impact on individual patients, including the cultural domains of individuals, families, communitie...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...

This paper presents innovative approaches to improving lexical competence of non-linguistic students. The authors analyze the concept terminological vocabulary in professional discourse, paying special attention peculiarities teaching vocational-oriented majoring Pedagogical technologies based on plurilingual approach professionally oriented are offered this article. disclose main features acqu...

the present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native english speaking students’ (nness) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native english speaking students (ness) and compared learners ...