For the past three years, Covid-19 has been dominant topic in international media. It central of various researches and studies. Accordingly, this study aims at presenting theoretical background pragmatics, media discourse, relation between two. In addition, it identifying uncovering speech acts used selected English Arabic news articles following Searle (1979) taxonomy. The are published by di...

As is well known, Russell assigned indefinite and definite descriptions the interpretations represented schematically in (1) and (2) respectively, where “CNP” stands for “Common Noun Phrase” in the sense used by Montague (1973) – i.e. as standing for the constituent which a determiner combines with to form a noun phrase (NP). (1) a. ...a/an CNP... b. ∃x[CNP(x) & ...x...] (2) a. ...the CNP... b....

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is characterized by exaggerated intonation patterns and short, simple phrases. Because these exaggerated intonation patterns frequently convey a small, stereotyped range of emotional signals, we might expect particular words, like good or no, to be realized with consistent pitch contours. This consistency in a word’s pitch realization might facilitate word recogniti...

Ethos, the speaker’s image in speech is one of three means persuasion e stablished by Aristotle’s Rhetoric and often studied a loose way. Many scholars develop lists self-images (ethos leader, modesty ethos, etc.), but few explain how arrives at these types ethos. This precisely what inferential approach described here intends to do. Considering, like many discourse analysts, that ethos consubs...

The ability to communicate is one of the crucial properties of agents. In this paper a normative approach to the pragmatics of Agent Communication Languages (ACLs) is proposed. In an open environment, like the Internet, in which agents are designed in many different ways, it is important to clearly establish the meaning of a standard language for artificial agents. Traditionally, the pragmatics...

If the life of everyday language can be captured by any single domain of linguistic research, surely pragmatics must be among the top candidates for that honor. Casting its wide net around phenomena as diverse as intonational, morphological and syntactic variation with implications for social and interpersonal meanings, speech acts and their diverse realizations, discourses coherence and cohesi...

The article below provides information about socio-pragmatics, socio-pragmatic analysis, the role of age factor in cross-cultural communication focusing on certain similarities and differences between people different groups during process. Uzbek peers call each other “do'stim” whether they are familiar or not which is English equivalent for word “friend”, usage only refers to someone you know ...