Pragmatic rating is considered as one of the novel and crucial aspects of second language education which has not been maneuvered upon in the literature. To address this gap, the current study aimed to inspect the matches and mismatches, to explore rating variations, and to assess the rater consistency between the holistic and analytic rating methods of the speech act of agreement in L2 by non-...

The article is devoted to the problem of latent verbal influence on attitudes addressee in advertising sports discourse. purpose work identify linguistic means that realize suggestive potential figure skating ice shows. analysis media texts posted Russian social network “VKontakte” was carried out. 124 for 2021—2023 were analyzed Methods discursive and communicative-pragmatic analysis, content ...

Discourse incoherence is an important and typical problem with multi-document extractive summaries. To address this issue, we have developed a schema-based summarization approach for query-based blog summaries that utilizes discourse structures. In our schema design, we tried to model discourse structures which are typically used by humans in their summary writing in response to a particular qu...

This paper describes the design of pragmatic-interpretation and dialogue-management modules in an automatic inquiry system that can be consulted through spoken natural language over the telephone. The system is designed around a central multi-level data structure representing the discourse that has unfolded during the dialogue. At the highest level of this discourse representation the informati...

Logical connectives (e.g., or, if, and not) are central to everyday conversation, and the inferences they generate are made with little effort in pragmatically sound situations. In contrast, the neural substrates of logical inference-making have been studied exclusively in abstract tasks where pragmatic concerns are minimal. Here, we used fMRI in an innovative design that employed narratives to...

the necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for english language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance. the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of four types of instruction for teaching some pragmatic markers including topic change m...

In the volume under review, papers by eleven authors are included which were presented at the international conferenceConnectives asDiscourse Landmarks (University of Paris-Diderot, May 2005). emain point of interest of present studies are syntactic, semantic and pragmatic functions of several discourse connectives in English. e term ‘connective’ is being used in a broad sense, without specif...

Testing pragmatic competence has always posed daunting challenges to researchers and practitioners. As a step to address the gap in pragmatic testing, this paper delineates the procedural stages of developing and validating a context-sensitive Multiple Choice Discourse Completion Test (MDCT). Following a unitary view of validity, tenable argument and empirical evidence was accumulated to suppor...

With the aim of more emphasis on pragmatics and its inclusion in EFL classrooms, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of obtrusive and unobtrusive focus on form instructions on learners’ pragmatic performance of criticizing in English. 54 Iranian learners, all at intermediate level, participated in this study, and they were divided into three groups: 19 participants receiving o...

Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...