This study aims to investigate the Interaction strategies of haggling in ‘Pawn Stars’ and ‘The Pickers’ TV shows. The participants are those who involved interaction both instruments used for data collection this qualitative sociopragmatics video camera, television computer. were collected through camera that was record shows then recorded transferred computer be transcribed analyzed. From anal...

This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) their translation into English. The aims to identify most effective English translations these metaphors by sending a questionnaire 43 native speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language similes (TL) using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework classify similes. findings indicate that YA dialects us...

This sociopragmatics study aims to investigate the various types of directive speech acts and markers local wisdom in communication elementary students Kolaka. The research design employed is qualitative descriptive, chosen for its ability describe manifestation within context school students. participants this consisted from Kolaka Regency. Data were collected through non-participant observati...

The present study aimed to examine the effect of proficiency on pragmatic comprehension speech acts, implicatures, and routines, as well way learners different levels employ strategies when comprehending a task. Thirty-three high-proficiency forty-one low-proficiency Chinese English completed multiple-choice discourse completion task (MDCT). Of participants, six were selected from two groups pe...

Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, ...

The pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. The separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...