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1967-, Taguchi Naoko, ed. Pragmatic competence. Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.

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Calomagno, Sergio. Pragmatic approaches to aphasia therapy: Promoting aphasics' communicative effectiveness. Whurr Publishers, 1994.

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Sequeiros, Xosé Rosales. Effects of pragmatic interpretation on translation: Communicative gaps and textual discrepancies. Lincom Europa, 2005.

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Taguchi, Naoko. Context, individual differences and pragmatic competence. Multilingual Matters, 2012.

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Carolyn, Anderson, and MacKay Gilbert 1944-, eds. Teaching children with pragmatic difficulties of communication. D. Fulton, 2000.

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Weinrich, Barbara Derickson. A sourcebook of adolescent pragmatic activities: Theory and intervention for language therapy (grades 7-12 and ESL). Communication Skill Builders, 1986.

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Derickson, Weinrich Barbara, and Glaser Ann Johnson, eds. A sourcebook of pragmatic activities: Theory and intervention for language therapy (PK-6). Communication Skill Builders, 1991.

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Hurtová, Zuzana. Firbasian non-thematic layers in paragraphs and beyond: (a study in functional sentence perspective, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic paragraphs, and communicative strategy in fiction). Universitas Ostraviensis, 2009.

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Beloglazova, Elena, Ekaterina Bobyreva, Raisa Bozhenkova, et al. Language: life of meanings vs the meaning of life. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1946199.

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The monograph presents a comprehensive description of the language in semantic representation and the communicative and pragmatic orientation of its implementation. The research was carried out within the framework of the cognitive-discursive paradigm with the description of conceptual and discursive formations. Language is studied in discursive, linguosemiotic, linguocognitive, linguopragmatic, linguoculturological aspects. It is addressed to specialists in the field of communication, as well as teachers, graduate students and students of humanities and university specialties.

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Fotieva, Irina, Tamara Semilet, Elena Lukashevich, and Vladimir Vitvinchuk. Russian journalism today: social mission and professional skills. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1044192.

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This monograph is the search for answers to the questions that confront contemporary Russian journalism social and cultural situation of modernity. The authors analyze the correlation of proper and existing in the implementation of the social mission of journalism, the journalism education system, the use of media technologies, the field of journalistic ethics, language and communicative practices of the public sphere, the social effects produced by the media.  As the main characteristics of the modern state of Russian journalism finds confrontation and the confrontation of philosophical

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Taguchi, Naoko. Pragmatic Competence. De Gruyter, Inc., 2009.

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Bianchi, Francesca, and Sara Gesuato, eds. Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts. Brill | Rodopi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004323902.

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Gesuato, Sara, and Francesca Bianchi. Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts. BRILL, 2016.

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Charlann, S. Simon. Evaluating Communicative Competence Functional Pragmatic Approach. Communication Skill Builders, 1986.

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Pragmatic Approaches To Aphasia Therapy (Promoting Aphasics' Communicative Effectiveness). Whurr Publishers, 1994.

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Pragmatic, communicative and perceptual issues in early language development. Karl-Franzens-Universität, Institut fur Anglistik], 2004.

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Children's Pragmatic Communication Difficulties (Disorders of Communication). Wiley, 2000.

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Pragmatic Competence and Relevance. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2014.

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Pragmatic Competence and Relevance. Benjamins Publishing Company, John, 2014.

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Anderson, Carolyn, and Gilber MacKay. Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication: Classroom Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Anderson, Carolyn, and Gilber MacKay. Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication: Classroom Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Anderson, Carolyn, and Gilber MacKay. Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication: Classroom Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Anderson, Carolyn, and Gilber MacKay. Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication: Classroom Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Anderson, Carolyn, and Gilber MacKay. Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication: Classroom Approaches. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Weinrich, Barbara Derickson. A sourcebook of adolescent pragmatic activities: Theory and intervention for language therapy (grades 7-12 and ESL). Communication Skill Builders, 1994.

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Jucker, Andreas H. Pragmatics and Language Change. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.5.

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Language change is the result of innovative communicative practices that spread from innovative individuals to larger communities of language users (communities of practice) and ultimately to entire language communities. Historical pragmatics traces the pragmatic motivations of language change, and investigates the diachronic developments of pragmatic entities. This article provides an overview of the processes of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, which account for language change from a pragmatic perspective, and gives two case studies of the development of specific pragmatic entitie

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Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal. Developmental Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.6.

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This chapter traces the development of communicative intention, conversation, and narrative in early interaction from infancy to early childhood. True communicative intention commences once the infant acquires the social cognitive ability to share attention and intention with another. The developing child’s pragmatic understanding is reflective of his/her underlying motivations for cooperation and shared intentionality. As children begin to understand others’ mental states, they can take others’ perspectives and understand what knowledge is shared and with whom, moving from joint perceptual fo

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Gerken, Mikkel. Staging a Strict Purist Invariantist Comeback. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803454.003.0010.

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Chapter 9 responds to arguments for pragmatic encroachment that appeal to the communicative functions of knowledge ascriptions or genealogical assumptions. The methodology of such arguments is criticized by way of a dilemma—the Functional Role Dilemma. A further dilemma for pragmatic encroachment—Pandora’s Dilemma—is then raised: many factors other than stakes can have an effect on knowledge ascriptions. So, pragmatic encroachers must either accept that these factors are partial determiners of knowledge or reject this. However, both options lead to trouble. Since these dilemmas are indicative

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Carston, Robyn. Pragmatics and Semantics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.19.

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A cognitive-scientific approach to the pragmatic interpretive ability is presented, according to which it is seen as a specific cognitive system dedicated to the interpretation of ostensive stimuli, that is, verbal utterances and other overtly communicative acts. This approach calls for a dual construal of semantics. The semantics which interfaces with the pragmatic interpretive system is not a matter of truth-conditional content, but of whatever components of meaning (lexical and syntactic) are encoded by the language system (independent of any particular use of the system by speakers in spec

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Horn, Laurence. Pragmatics and the Lexicon. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.8.

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Since Paul and Zipf, it has become evident that lexical choice and meaning change are largely guided by pragmatic principles. Two central interacting principles are, first, the least-effort tendency to reduce expression and, second, the communicative requirements on sufficiency of information. Descendants of this opposition include Grice’s bipartite Maxim of Quantity (‘Make your contribution as informative as/no more informative than is required’) grounded within a general theory of rationality and cooperation, the Q and R Principles (essentially ‘Say enough’/‘Don’t say too much’), and the int

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Anikina, Marina, Anna Vasil'eva, Tat'yana Krotova, and Marina Chichina. Russian Syntax for Professional Communication: Theory and Practice. MGIMO University Publishing House, 2025. https://doi.org/10.63861/3011-9.

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The teaching aid is aimed at developing the linguistic competence of students, allows systematizing knowledge of the syntax of the Russian language and reinforcing the use of grammatical material using examples from the professional sphere of activity. Communicative and pragmatic competences are developed in parallel with the help of tasks simulating real situations in the sphere of international relations and diplomacy, economics, and law. For students studying Russian as a foreign language at the intermediate and advanced levels of study in the social and humanitarian areas of professional t

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Gerken, Mikkel. Cognition and Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803454.003.0009.

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Chapter 8 connects the discussion of epistemic norms of assertion to pragmatics more generally and to the pragmatics of knowledge ascriptions in particular. Some pragmatic theories and recent work in cognitive pragmatics and psycholinguistics are presented. By conjoining these accounts with the psychological considerations of Chapter 5, it is argued that knowledge ascriptions are often used as communicative heuristics, which are effective, albeit inaccurate, ways of getting complex epistemic points across. This conclusion is developed with regard to knowledge ascriptions which carry the direct

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Fernández-Dols, José-Miguel. Natural Facial Expression. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190613501.003.0024.

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The notion that there are universal facial expressions of basic emotion remains a dominant idea in the study of emotion. Inspired by pragmatics, and based on behavioral ecology and psychological constructionism, this chapter provides an alternative to the concept of facial expression of basic emotion: the concept of natural facial expression. Actual, observable natural facial expressions do not mean self-contained, discrete basic emotions; they are instead related to different components of diverse emotional episodes. Their communicative function is not semantic (e.g., a smile does not means h

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Byros, Vasili. Topics and Harmonic Schemata. Edited by Danuta Mirka. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.0015.

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Topics and harmonic schemata powerfully interact in the late eighteenth-century communicative channel. This chapter illustrates both a categorial and pragmatic interfacing of the two domains in Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, where a particular schema, thele–sol–fi–sol(Byros 2012, 2009), enables the communication of a powerful philosophical message involving the spiritual consequences of suffering, self-sacrifice, and death. Thele–sol–fi–sol, as an instance of harmonic grammar, is closely related to theombratopic with mortal, funereal, and sacrificial connotations. As a hybrid symbolic structur

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Tomasello, Michael. What did we learn from the ape language studies? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728511.003.0007.

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The ‘ape language’ studies have come and gone, with wildly divergent claims about what they have shown. Without question, the most sophisticated skills have been displayed by Kanzi, a male bonobo exposed from youth to a human-like communicative system. This chapter attempts to assess, in an objective a manner as possible, the nature of the communicative skills that Kanzi and other great apes acquired during the various ape language projects. The overall conclusion is that bonobos and other apes possess most of the requisite cognitive skills for something like a human language, including such t

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Green, Mitchell. Showing, Expressing, and Figuratively Meaning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0009.

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We first correct some errors in Lepore and Stone’s discussion of speaker meaning and its relation to linguistic meaning. With a proper understanding of those notions and their relation, we may then motivate a liberalization of speaker meaning that includes overtly showing one’s psychological state. I then distinguish this notion from that of expression, which, although communicative, is less cognitively demanding than speaker meaning since it need not be overt. This perspective in turn enables us to address Lepore and Stone’s broadly Davidsonian view of figurative language, which rightly empha

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Holmes, Douglas R. A Tractable Future. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820802.003.0008.

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Markets are a function of language. This chapter examines ethnographically how central bankers create and enter a communicative field in which market participants and members of the public model economic phenomena for their own purposes, employing their own pragmatic insights. Central banks increasingly manage the expectations of others with official statements and forward guidance constructed in words. But this chapter focuses also on the role of conversation both within central banks and between the central banks and their publics and shows how this discursive input is crucial to central ban

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Wray, Alison. The Dynamics of Dementia Communication. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917807.001.0001.

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Despite a plethora of good advice, it can be hard to sustain effective communicative behaviours when someone is living with a dementia. This book asks why that is. Part 1 explores how various dementia-causing diseases affect the linguistic, pragmatic (reasoning), and memory systems; how social perceptions and practices exacerbate the underlying biological problems; how people living with a dementia describe their experiences; and how dementia care currently addresses the challenges of communication. Part 2 asks why people communicate and what shapes how they communicate. The Communicative Impa

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Lindstrom, Amy M. Unexpressed Subjects in English. Published by Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978738355.

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Unexpressed Subjects in English: An Empirical Analysis of Narrative and Conversational Discourse challenges previous assumptions of what is grammatically possible in English through an examination of contexts in which speakers omit subjects, demonstrating how language structure is influenced by communicative needs. Through corpus-based analysis of both interactive conversations and monologic narratives, Amy M. Lindstrom reveals how the discourse/pragmatic factors of accessibility and chronological ordering, the prosodic effect of linking, and the mechanical effect of priming intersect to provi

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Haroon, Harshita Aini. Apposition in Malay. UUM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789675311437.

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Apposition in Malay addresses the lack of a detailed exploration and description of the construction in the language.The book provides a lengthy detail of Malay apposition, by providing, in the first chapter, a case for its necessity.Moving away from the prescriptive tradition, the description is based on constructions derived from three text types: journalistic texts, academic texts and fictional texts.Chosen for their different functions, appeal and communicative potential, the book details the findings based on the analysis of apposition in the 450,000 word corpora used as database.The uses

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Haslam, Nick. Reliability, Validity, and the Mixed Blessings of Operationalism. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, et al. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0058.

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The concepts of reliability and validity are fundamental for evaluating psychiatric diagnosis, including the "operationalist" approach pioneered in DSM-III. This chapter explores the complexity of these psychometric concepts and their interrelations. Although reliability constrains validity it does not guarantee it, and pursuing reliability in diagnosis can reduce validity. It is widely believed that the operationalist emphasis on diagnostic reliability has compromised the validity of recent psychiatric classifications. In particular, writers have argued that the drive for atheoretical diagnos

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