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...

This study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the English translations of Persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the Iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. Thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Are the English versions of Persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

The present study examines the interface between syntax and discourse-pragmatics in the production of verb second (V2) structures in a corpus of English texts by advanced L1 German and Dutch speakers. The evidence shows that the residual V2 produced by the learner groups studied is the result of a deficit at the interface rather than the transfer of narrow V2 syntax per se. The analysis offered...

Preliminary research for innovative assessments valid for both African American English- and Mainstream American English-speaking children suggested a process consisting of two separate tests: (1) a screening test, and (2) a comprehensive test of Syntax, Pragmatics, Semantics, and Phonology. Language probes were designed to accomplish the functions of dialect identification, using highly contra...

Park, Sang-Hee. 2009. Resolving Multiple fdo.fragments in English: A Syntax-Pragmatics Approach. SNU Working Papers in English Lingnistics and Langnage 8, 16-27. This study attempts to provide a new analysis of multiple wh·fragments, the so-called 'multiple sluicing', in English. Against previous approaches which resort to a reconslruction-based resolution or gapping, the proposed analysis capt...