Using research on the ageing mind, support is offered for the concept of bio-cultural sciences. The bio-cultural sciences highlight the notion that human behaviour is the joint and co-constructive expression of biological–genetic and cultural–societal processes and conditions. The genome determines the ontogeny of the brain; however, so does the cultural–social environment and individual behavi...

We describe our work on human-computer cooperative dialogue, that uses special "active" logics in an attempt to more closely and more usefully model human behavior. This effort pays attention to a number of issues, including Gricean pragmatics, logical nonomniscience, reasoning with inconsistent data, limited memory, blending in new information during reasoning, and models of human communicatio...

Pragmatics is defined as appropriate use of language either to comprehend ideas or to interact in social situations effectively. Pragmatic competence, which is processed in the right hemisphere, comprises a number of interrelated skills that manifest in a range of adaptive behaviors. Due to the widespread influence of language in communication, studying pragmatic profiles, by developing appropr...

Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ILP knowledge. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) used by high vs. low L2 pragmatic achi...

The role of executive functions in supporting the pragmatics communication has been extensively examined clinical populations, but is still under-explored healthy aging. In this study we addressed skills, including inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, older adults’ communicative-pragmatic abilities. Pragmatics was assessed by measuring understanding figurative language, narrat...

The greeting formula “salve” in teaching Italian as a foreign language at reference level A1 aim of this paper is to examine the context competence. First, topic investigated from perspective pragmatics and communicative Then we analyse range materials see how realized on more practical check authors coursebooks understand its function.

This study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Taiwan. The goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on EFL learners’ pragmatic competence. Second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

Many developmental psycholinguists assume that young children have adult syntactic competence, this assumption being operationalized in the use of adult-like grammars to describe young children's language. This ``continuity assumption'' has never had strong empirical support, but recently a number of new ®ndings have emerged both from systematic analyses of children's spontaneous speech and fro...

The main aim of this article is to discuss the place Pragmatics in EFL classroom. one branches linguistics which concerned with study meaning as com-municated by a speaker and interpreted listener. has fairly recently become focuses attention language studies. On other hand, it important remember that recent years, pragmatics components have been used teaching contexts, syllabus design, teacher...

1. Introduction. Constructions and Pragmatics What do constructional approaches to grammar have to contribute to linguistic pragmatics? A careful answer to this question would require prior specification of which approaches should properly be called 'constructional' and also what exactly is intended by 'linguistic pragmatics'. Conscientiously discharging these preparatory obligations could requ...