This study examined the psychometric aspects of a verbal pragmatic rating scale. The scale contained six pragmatic features (i.e., Conciseness, Lexical Selection, Quantity, Relevancy, Specificity, and Topic Maintenance) based on Grice's cooperative principles. Fifteen right brain-damaged (RBD), 15 left brain-damaged (LBD), and 16 healthy normal control (NC) right-handed adult participants produ...

This paper reports the findings of a study designed to investigate English e-requestsof Iranian EFL postgraduate students (i.e., nonnative speakers of English) made totheir professors during their education at Islamic Azad University, Najaf AbadBranch, Isfahan, Iran, to find out types of politeness features employed in the students’e-mails and the extent to which these features might influence ...

This paper will describe a process of ‘pragmatic annotation’ (c.f. Simpson-Vlach and Leicher 2006) which systematically identifies pragmatic meaning in spoken text. The annotation of stretches of text that perform particular pragmatic functions allows conclusions to be drawn across data sets at a different level than that of the individual lexical item, or structural content. The annotation of ...

background: there is no convenient cheap pragmatic experimental model for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld)/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (nash). we aimed to create a pragmatic model of nafld/nash. methods: sprague-dawley rats were fed a high-fat, high sugar homemade diet ad libitum for seven weeks. the high-fat, high sugar diet included 59% of energy derived from fat, 30% from carbohydra...

Human speech will be closely connected with his consciousness, worldview, ideology. Via speech, a person receives certain information and at the same time transmits via speech. In this process, nonverbal means for increasing sensitivity come out in field. turn, they serve as main auxiliary manifestation of language signs. It is worth noting that exactly considered one factors occurrence pragmat...

Целью данной статьи является идентификация условий и приемов актуализации коммуникативно-прагматического потенциала английских паремий в экономическом дискурсе. Научная новизна исследования заключается том, что рассматривается окказиональное использование В результате наблюдения за процессом функционирования выявлена возможность их творческого применения Трансформации актуализируют основные пра...