The present cross-sectional study centres on interlanguage pragmatics and seeks to determine the manner in which a group of thirteen Chilean Spanish speaking teachers English express remorse English, comparison with native speakers language. This pursues ascertain differences and/ or similarities terms linguistic expressions used, grammatical structures, cultural authenticity. data was gathered...

It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue for researchers. To respond to the inconclusive findings in intervention studies and to extend the instructional studies in L2 pragmatics to les...

Current semantic theory on indexical expressions claims that demonstratively used indexicals such as this lack a referent-determining meaning but instead rely on an accompanying demonstration act like a pointing gesture. While this view allows to set up a sound logic of demonstratives, the direct-referential role assigned to pointing gestures has never been scrutinized thoroughly in semantics o...

Elicited narrative studies have shown that the underlying pragmatic factor of empathy is relatively preserved in aphasic speakers of Japanese and English (7 Japanese and 14 English-speaking aphasics of varied diagnostic types). Occasional "reversal errors" can be explained in terms of a conflict between the normal encoding of the empathic characteristics of an event and the syntactic limitation...

This thesis deals with the nature of metarepresentation in language. It proposes linguistic-semantic and pragmatic analyses of a variety of metarepresentational expressions in English, using the framework of relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995). The main aim is to deepen the relevance-theoretic analysis of metarepresentation, to apply it to a range of data which have not been previou...

Subtitling, which is a main type of Audiovisual translation (AVT), has only recently received considerable interest in the field studies. As far as Arabic language concerned, most studies have been conducted to discuss several problems subtitling English multimedia material including films into by amateur or professional subtitlers, while few carried out investigate English, especially problem ...

Linguists around the world have been researching international English for a long time, forming three paradigms of thought and research – as an International Language (EIL), World (WE) Lingua Franca (ELF). The aim this paper is to present review conducted so far regarding in Serbia and, thus, offer insight into inner workings Serbian English, all light ELF research. Bearing mind that within par...

In this paper, we explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. Linguistic processing is informationally encapsulated and utilises relatively simple ‘taxonomic’ lexical semantic knowledge. On this basis, defeasible lexical generalisations deliver defeasible parts of logical form. In contrast, pragmatics is open-ended and involves arbitrary knowledge. Two axioms specify when ...

In this monograph, which is a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, Smitterberg presents the first comprehensive cross-genre investigation of the development and use of the progressive in 19th-century (English) English. Drawing on an extensive set of authentic language data, he convincingly demonstrates that this particular period represents an important – and interesting – phase in ...