We contrast two views of how contextual influence on sentence meaning composition can be explained. The Semantic Similarity View maintains that discourse context affects sentence meaning mainly because of the semantic similarity between the words in the discourse context and the words in the sentence (as measured by Latent Semantic Analysis). The Free Pragmatic View, in contrast, defends the cl...

The present cross-sectional study centres on interlanguage pragmatics and seeks to determine the manner in which a group of thirteen Chilean Spanish speaking teachers English express remorse English, comparison with native speakers language. This pursues ascertain differences and/ or similarities terms linguistic expressions used, grammatical structures, cultural authenticity. data was gathered...

Discourse prosody in school-aged children’s narratives was investigated to test for developmental changes in transitional prosody and to characterize the acquisition of key contrastive features for marking continuation versus completion. Spontaneous narratives were obtained from 42 children (5 to 7 years old) and 14 adult caregivers. The narratives were prosodically transcribed using a formal a...

Grounded in sociocultural theory, collaboration has been recognized as a useful teaching method. In English teaching, while number of studies have examined the effectiveness on grammar, research pragmatic awareness is scarce. As such, this study explored how influenced, firstly, grammatical and and, secondly, error correction: two major components language competence. study, 32 Taiwanese junior...

The aim of this study was to investigate the pragmatic failure in English and Arabic students at UIN Alauddin Makassar's Faculty Adab Cultural Studies. data for were gathered through observation, distribution questionnaires form a discourse completeness test (DCT), interviews. Quantitative qualitative research collected research. This employed three statistical models or techniques: descriptive...