A metapragmatic expression denotes an event of speaking. An embedded metapragmatic construction embeds one metapragmatic expression within another, as in "Bush said Clinton lied." This article reports that embedded metapragmatic constructions, when used in television news coverage of U.S. political campaigns, most often predicate on the topic of lying. Simple metapragmatic constructions in this...

This study endeavors to investigate the effects of metapragmatic instructions: role play and elicited conversation negotiated feedback (RP+NF, EC+NF) embedded in Task-Supported Language Instruction (TSLI) on students’ apology strategy. We used a laboratory-based research design encompassing 75 fifth-semester students economics major taking English business for international communication higher...

This discussion note is inspired by, and in turn expands on, a few themes threads laid out Judith Bridges’s “Explaining ‘-splain’ digital discourse”. The stresses the focus contribution linguistic anthropologists have made to understanding various types of indexical meaning-making practices, order indexicality. also briefly details affordances word “explain” suffix “x-plain”, which may account ...

humans are equipped with some universal or language-specific abilities to recognize emotions. however, because of the different emotional contents in diverse languages and the relevant cultural differences, humans with different cultural backgrounds own different metapragmatical abilities to recognize and express emotions. a hypothesis concerning emotional effects about intonation and particle ...

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