İletişimsel yeterlilik; sözdizimsel kurallar ve hedef dil bilgisini içerir. İletişimin temel birimleri olan söz edimleri, belirli bir dilde dilbilimsel yetkinlik açısından önemlidir. Bu çalışma, İngilizce iletişim aracı olarak kullanıldığında; Türk Kürt (batılı kültüründen olmayanlar) konuşanlar ile anadili (batı olanlar) konuşanların özür stratejilerindeki benzerlikleri farklılıkları bulmak iç...

When making a mistake, individuals are willing to apologize to secure further cooperation, even if the apology is costly. Similarly, individuals arrange commitments to guarantee that an action such as a cooperative one is in the others’ best interest, and thus will be carried out to avoid eventual penalties for commitment failure. Hence, both apology and commitment should go side by side in beh...

the present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin persian. to do so, 195 male and female native persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item discourse completion task (dct) to elicit the speech act of offer. thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

Previous research suggests that children gradually understand the mitigating effects of apology on damage to a transgressor's reputation. However, little is known about young children's insights into the central emotional implications of apology. In two studies, children ages 4-9 heard stories about moral transgressions in which the wrongdoers either did or did not apologize. In Study 1, childr...

Alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. These approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996). The present study tries to ex...

The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that attempts integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics pragmatics, psycholinguistics, computational cognitive science in study meaning: probabilistic pragmatics. most influential is Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework. In this review, I demonstrate basic mechanics commitments RSA as well some its sta...

Drawing upon sociocultural theory of Vygotsky, the current study aims to investigate the effect of dyadic interaction in mixed and matched level proficiency pairings on comprehension and production of request and apology speech acts. The participants were 125 EFL learners who were randomly assigned to control and experimental (interaction) groups. Based on their scores in the pretest including ...