Németh T., Enikő: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language use: Grammar and Pragmatics Interac...
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Christoph Rühlemann: Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics: A guide for research
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
“We’re running out of fuel!”: When does miscommunication go unrepaired?
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
We introduce a framework for studying repair initiation in the face of miscommunication. Our aim is to seed development of models that both predict when conversational repair is a likely communicative strategy and explain why interlocutors would not engage in repair in the face of conversational difficulty. We identify three factors as critical to ...
Hesitant versus Confident Family Language Policy: A Case of Two Single-Parent Families in Finland
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
During the past decade, the field of family language policy has broadened its scopeand turned its attention to diverse family configurations in versatile sociolinguistic contexts.The current study contributes to this endeavor by focusing on two single-parent families wholive in Finland and who strive to support Russian as a family language. Applyin...
Interlocutors’ judgment of Lx conventional expressions: An exploratory study
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
The present study is a perception study that investigates how French L1 speakers evaluate the speech produced by advanced French Lx users that deviates from the pragmatic norms of the local community. More specifically, this exploratory study investigates how conventional expressions that displayed pragmalinguistic or sociopragmatic deviances affec...
Billy Clark: Pragmatics: The basics
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
“Sorry for your consideration”: The (in)adequacy of English speech act labels in describing ‘apologies’ and ‘thanks’ in ...
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Despite speech act theory being very influential in pragmatics, the notion of what constitutes a speech act in languages other than English has not received the attention it deserves in the literature. After a brief outline of traditional speech act theory, this paper problematizes the use of English speech act labels by comparing English and Japan...
