Inter-language pragmatics (ILP) research is still in its infancy, particularly where research methodology is concerned. The overwhelming reliance on one method of data collection-production questionnaires (PQs)-is ample evidence of this. 2 Perhaps of even greater concern than the widespread use of PQs is what could be seen as the somewhat naive manner in which they have been employed. PQs have ...

the present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced iranian learners of english as a foreign language. the study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and wh-clefts. after taking the nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

This study investigated the impact of individual differences like language proficiency, gender and age on the Iranian EFL learners interlanguage pragmatics in institutional discourse especially, their capacity to recognize and to rate pragmatic and grammatical infelicities in speech act situations of request and apology.  To this end, one hundred and eighty-seven EFL university students at thre...