Dynel, Marta
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Intercultural Pragmatics
This paper gives a critical overview of Jörg Meibauer’s (2014) monograph entitled Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface and addresses a selection of theoretical issues pertinent to lying and deception. Thus, following a brief summary of the volume’s contents, more attention is paid to the speaker’s intention to deceive as a potentially necess...
Gil, José María
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson suggest that much of linguistic communication is weak because the hearer usually must take a great responsibility in the interpretation of the speaker’s utterance. Sometimes, the (very) “weak implicatures” supplied by the hearer are very different from (and even incompatible with) the speaker’s intention. Relevance Th...
Sydorenko, Tetyana
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Intercultural Pragmatics
This study examines the effect of oral practice via computer-delivered structured tasks (CASTs) with native speaker (NS) models and open-ended tasks without NS input (i.e., learner-leaner role-plays) on pragmatic development of second language learners. While prior studies have indicated that structured tasks afford more opportunities for focus on ...
Mugford, Gerrard
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Nyan, Thanh
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Intercultural Pragmatics
If one takes the view that utterance meaning is the product of interactional processes, then intended perlocutionary effects should be receiving more attention; indeed, their occurrence (or nonoccurrence, for that matter) has a direct influence on the circumstances that determine the range of possible language choices for both speaker and hearer. V...
Comstock, Lindy B.
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Taking the Russian and Irish teleconference team of a multinational IT company as the subject of analysis, this paper problematizes the assumption that a community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet 1992) will converge on a set of conventions through prolonged, recurrent interaction. Although the teleconference team successfully achieves a lev...
Chengtuan, Li
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Hassall, Tim
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Intercultural Pragmatics
This is an initial exploratory study of how study-abroad learners influence each other’s pragmatic development in naturalistic settings. It focuses on a cohort of 12 Australian learners of Indonesian during a short summer course and uses a multimethod approach, including a pretest/posttest instrument, diary entries, and regular interviews. Findings...
Zuloaga, Margarita Borreguero
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Intercultural Pragmatics
Savić, Milica
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Intercultural Pragmatics
With the introduction of the notion of communicative competence to second-language learning and teaching (Canale and Swain 1980), and the recognition of the role of pragmatic competence within it (Bachman 1990; Bachman and Palmer 1996), interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) research has gained in popularity. However, with a few notable exceptions (Achiba ...
