Abstract: Avoiding the current terminology debates in the literature on politeness research  and following  a  variational  pragmatics  approach,  this  study  attempted  to  illuminate  how appropriacy/  inappropriacy  is  realized  in  Persian  language  in  light  of  five  speech  acts  of introduction,  apology,  refusal,  congratulation,  and  condolence.  Additionally,  it  was  aimed  t...

A comprehensive pragmatic theory will certainly have to address both these issues. In the search for such a comprehensive view of pragmatics a question immediately arises: how are socio-pragmatics and cognitive pragmatics related? One answer given in the literature is that the two domains are separate and socio-pragmatics controls cognitive pragmatics in the sense that socio-pragmatic entities ...

Interlanguage Pragmatics has gained more attention among Pragmatics researchers. This paper reviews the recent researches on Interlanguage pragmatics in Second Language Acquisition, and selects the research which focuses on learning process. It presents them into four groups: cross-sectional studies, longitudinal studies, research about pragmatic transfer, and instructed learning of L2 pragmati...

Defining Pragmatics offers a conceptual survey of the delimitation of pragmatics. We identify the problems that have plagued attempts to define the field. Such endeavors occupied pragmatists quite a lot in the 1970s and 1980s, but when no satisfactory solution was found, researchers simply settled into separate niches and practices of how to do pragmatics. Some, perhaps even most, pragmatists s...

Classical Gricean pragmatics is usually conceived as dealing with far-side pragmatics, aimed at computing implicatures. It involves reasoning about why what was said, was said. Near-side pragmatics, on the other hand, is pragmatics in the service of determining, together with the semantical properties of the words used, what was said. But this raises the specter of 'the pragmatic circle.' If Gr...

Pragmatics and Systemic -functional Grammar (SFG) used to ignore each other and lack in communication, however, in certain aspects they are indeed in a position to complement each other. This paper mainly discusses on one hand the bases for the complementary relation between pragmatics and systemic -functional grammar (CR-P&SFG), on the other hand the main aspects concerning the CR-P&SFG. Pragm...