This paper investigates that brief connections between usages of left-dislocations in American discourse and functions for developing conversation statuses based on analyses pragmatics.It also reveals speakers’ intentions are shown a maintaining topic continuity as tool function.It is hard to account word order manipulative; however, hypotheses we can bear out technically demonstrated.As the po...

Objective To describe the frequency of pragmatic and executive deficits in right brain damaged (RBD) and in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, and to verify possible dissociations between pragmatic and executive functions in these two groups. Methods The sample comprised 7 cases of TBI and 7 cases of RBD. All participants were assessed by means of tasks from the Montreal Communication Eva...

Pragmatic competence includes illocutionary competence, and sociolinguistic competence. Illocutionary competence indicates a speaker's ability to combine grammatical interpretation of an utterance with its speech act, and the sociolinguistic competence indicates a speaker's ability to perform language functions in appropriate ways according to context. One must gain pragmatic knowledge before b...