‘Native-like’ use of discourse markers is a good indicator language proficiency. Analysing four subcorpora English-language tweets posted by Twitter users from the Nordic countries Finland, Norway, and Sweden, this study considers effects discursive context L1 influence on correlation between semantic function sentence position marker actually. The shows that both predictors appear to have sign...

Research on L2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. This study sought to explore, first, the interplay between Iranian advanced EFL learners’ pragmati...

Pragmatic competence is an indispensable component of communicative competence, which plays essential role in human communication. When individual communicatively competent, he/she can carry out effective conversation social situations. Therefore, pragmatic establishes a compelling factor English language learning as it permits second/foreign learners to successful conversations real-life inter...

This study examines pragmatic resistance as a choice made by Chinese learners of Korean and the factors that contribute to this choice. Data were collected from 46 upper-intermediate language through three different tools, including Discourse Completion Tasks, metapragmatic questionnaires, retrospective interviews. Findings showed participants chose resist native norms in over 40% their answers...

The Pragmatic Web is seen as a direction for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web. Realizing the vision of the Pragmatic Web, however, requires a shift in thinking about technology as a means for designing communication (which is making forms of interactivity possible that may otherwise be difficult or impossible). Some lessons from theory and research on Pragmatics provide grounds for unde...

In pragmatics, the theory of language use, it is standard to assume that communication is a cooperative affair. Recently, this standard view has come under attack by Ducrot and Merin, and it has been proposed that an argumentative view on natural language use is more appropriate. In this paper I discuss to what extent this attack is justified and whether the alternative view can provide a more ...

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...

This article focuses on the use of like by Korean speakers English. South Korea is a fascinating context for world Englishes studies: English generally learned as foreign language, but deep political and historical ties facilitate high visibility prominent status language in society. In this study, with particular attention to discourse-pragmatic aspects are investigated help Spoken Corpus (SPO...