With an eye to increased efficiency, agent communication language (ACL) designers have heeded the analogy with natural language and introduced elements from natural language pragmatics (NLP) into their designs. However, ACL pragmatics has not availed itself of NLP advances to the extent that it could. While a few aspects of pragmatics are incorporated, most notably speech acts, their inclusion ...

Abstract Working from the perspective of Leech’s (The Pragmatics Politeness. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014) modification to Blum-Kulka et al .’s (Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies. Norwood, NJ, Ablex, 1989) approach classifying requests, this study investigates how far impositive directive speech acts are found in spoken Irish English, a variety English which is well-kno...

The aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions EFL instructors employed in Schools Foreign Languages various universities Turkey concerning their awareness pragmatics and pragmatic competence. sequential mixed method design was used descriptive study. researchers administered a 12-item questionnaire with 61 participants collect quantitative data. In addition, delve into results obtaine...

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 aim is to outline general differences in two academic cultures, considering historic perspectives: German ‘Kommunikationswissenschaft’ with its roots in ‘Publizistik-’ and ‘Zeitungswissenschaft’ and French ‘Sciences de l’information et de la communication’ with its roots in semiotics and cultural views on communication. There are different internal and external (societal and political) mean...