research on l2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. this study sought to explore, first, the interplay between iranian advanced efl learners’ pragmati...

The word pragmatic was first used in relation to trials by Schwartz and Lellouch in 1967, in a paper in which they argue that most therapeutic trials are inadequately formulated because there is ambiguity about which of two radically different kinds of problem they are designed to address. They explain what these two kinds of problem are by distinguishing between pragmatic trials that are desig...

Verbal periphrases (VP) constitute a typological feature of Romance languages and they are especially frequent in the Iberoromanic languages. In context this paper, aspectual verbal construction stare + infinito modal VP volere will be “grasped concrete speech action” (Katelhön 2013: 237; my translation) order to show how these two VPs used as discourse-structuring elements contemporary Italian...

"Discourse Marker Desde Logo as a “Concretization and Exemplifica¬tion Operator”. This study analyses the use of discourse marker desde logo in Contemporary European Portuguese an example (EM), sharing semantic-discursive properties contexts with other items, such “por exemplo”, “concretamente”, “sobretudo”, “principalmente”, etc. Exemplification is very frequent important operation discourse, ...

This article analyses the use of example markers for and instance in exemplifying, selective argumentative constructions. Of these three uses, exemplification—twofold sequences with a first general unit or hyperonym second more specific item hyponym—has received recurrent attention literature, whereas selection—constructions where element is omitted—and argumentation—the to connect whole chunks...

This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some use them more as time goes by, ...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...