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Attardo, Salvatore. "Are socio-pragmatics and (Neo)-Gricean pragmatics incompatible?" Journal of Pragmatics 30, no. 5 (November 1998): 627–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-2166(97)00051-9.
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Nick, I. M. "Socio-Onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names." Names 68, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 51–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2019.1643136.
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Rigney, Ann. "Farne and defamation: Toward a socio-pragmatics." Semiotica 99, no. 1-2 (September 1, 1994): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/semi-1994-991-204.
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Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni. "The Socio-pragmatics of Nigerian English in Nollywood." Studies in Linguistics ll, no. 38 (January 2016): 493–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.17002/sil..38.201601.493.
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Parvaresh, Vahid. "The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports: Socio-philosophical Considerations." Australian Journal of Linguistics 39, no. 2 (May 16, 2017): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2017.1301185.
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Honghui, Zhou, and Chen Dongchun. "Understanding Misunderstandings from Socio-cognitive Approach to Pragmatics." International Journal of Language and Linguistics 7, no. 5 (2019): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.ijll.20190705.13.
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Basile, Grazia. "The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports. Socio-philosophical Considerations." Journal of Pragmatics 129 (May 2018): 120–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.021.
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Archer, Dawn. "Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics twenty years on." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 315–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00008.arc.
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Abstract This paper has two purposes. First, it constitutes an exploration of context from the perspective of some prominent historical pragmaticians, and/or as demonstrated by publications which represent/exemplify a particular approach within historical pragmatics (Jacobs and Jucker 1995; Archer and Culpeper 2003, 2011; Nevala 2011; Traugott 2004, 2011; 2012; Jucker and Taavitsainen 2014) as well as related disciplines such as historical sociolinguistics (Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg 2003). Second, it explores my own (evolving) view in respect to context, often in response to the influential work of others, as evidenced in a selection of my work (Archer 2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014).
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Ranerup, Agneta. "The socio-material pragmatics of e-governance mobilization." Government Information Quarterly 29, no. 3 (July 2012): 413–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.02.012.
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Dynel, Marta, and Fabio I. M. Poppi. "Risum teneatis, amici?☆: The socio-pragmatics of RoastMe humour." Journal of Pragmatics 139 (January 2019): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.10.010.
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Scianna, Caterina. "Alessandro Capone, The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports: Socio-philosophical Considerations." Categorization in multilingual storytelling 10, no. 3 (October 22, 2019): 470–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.00022.sci.
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Rüegg, Larssyn. "Thanks responses in three socio-economic settings: A variational pragmatics approach." Journal of Pragmatics 71 (September 2014): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.07.005.
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Booth, Amy E., Karla K. McGregor, and Katharina J. Rohlfing. "Socio-Pragmatics and Attention: Contributions to Gesturally Guided Word Learning in Toddlers." Language Learning and Development 4, no. 3 (June 27, 2008): 179–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475440802143091.
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Wójtowicz, Beata. "SOCJOKULTUROWY ASPEKT POWITAŃ W JĘZYKU SUAHILI." AFRYKA 50, no. 50 (February 20, 2020): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.32690/afr50.5.
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The Socio-Cultural Context of Greetings in Swahili1 Today most linguists agree that language and culture are tightly connected. It is also argued that in order to communicate successfully, we need to achieve a level of socio-cultural competence along with an ability to use the grammar and the lexicon of a particular language. There are many kinds of cultural norms and values that one has to obey, as there may be fundamental communication and discourse differences between one language and another. This paper is primarily concerned with some issues of discourse strategies and pragmatics of African languages. While the study focuses on greeting practices among the Swahili, it also investigates how learners acquire the pragmatics of Swahili greetings in a foreign language context, and how Swahili, as a language of wider communication, is infl uenced by cultural norms and values of its speakers, for whom Swahili is not a primary language.
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Hosseini, Misagh, and Ehsan Rezvani. "CRITERIA USED BY PROFICIENT VS. LESS PROFICIENT EFL TEACHERS IN PRAGMATIC ASSESSMENT: THE CASE OF REQUEST SPEECH ACT." English Review: Journal of English Education 7, no. 1 (December 9, 2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v7i1.1529.
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Abstract: The issue of EFL teachers� rating criteria and patterns in Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) assessment is new and needs rigorous analysis. The purpose of this study was to reveal important variables such as raters� criteria and rating patterns by analyzing the ILP assessment process of Iranian non-native English speaking raters (NNESRs) of both high and low proficiency levels based on the request speech act. The data for this study was collected through a discourse completion test (DCT) and a rating questionnaire from 40 Iranian EFL teachers and were later analyzed through descriptive analysis-test and chi-squares. The results showed that raters considered 9 criteria, including pragma-linguistic and socio-pragmatic components of language which raters noted differently through eight request situations. The results showed that raters considered nine criteria, including pragma linguistic and socio-pragmatic components of language which were noted differently through eight request situations. Among the considered criteria, the highest frequencies belonged to the criteria of authenticity, query of preparatory and softness, and interlocutors� relationship used by high proficiency teachers, whereas low proficiency teachers used the highest frequencies of accuracy, style, and directness. The result of the study can have important connotations for teachers to consider teaching L2 pragmatics in language classes and in teacher training courses.Keywords: Interlanguage pragmatics; request; speech act; pragmatic assessment.
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Taavitsainen, Irma, and Andreas H. Jucker. "Twenty years of historical pragmatics." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16, no. 1 (April 3, 2015): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.1.01taa.
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This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the research questions, the methods and tools that are being used for the analysis, as well as the nature of the generalizations and findings that result from these investigations. We deal with the changes in terms of shifts in thought styles and discuss seven different turns: the pragmatic turn, the socio-cultural turn, the dispersive turn, the empirical turn, the digital turn, the discursive turn and the diachronic turn. We also deal with some long-standing, recent or emerging interfaces where historical pragmatics interacts with other disciplines and we discuss some future challenges, such as the multimodality and fluidity of communication and the problem of combining big data with pragmatic micro analyses.
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Delfitto, Denis, and Gaetano Fiorin. "Alessandro Capone, The pragmatics of indirect reports: Socio-philosophical considerations (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology 8). Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. Pp. xii + 364." Journal of Linguistics 54, no. 1 (November 16, 2017): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226717000299.
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Scott, Maggie. "Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman (Eds.). (2017) Socio-onomastics: The Pragmatics of Names." Linguistic Landscape. An international journal 4, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 200–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ll.00005.sco.
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Muhyidin, Mohammad. "A Socio-pragmatics Study: Flouting of Conversational Maxims Found in “Bence” Traditional Market, Kediri." EDULINK : EDUCATION AND LINGUISTICS KNOWLEDGE JOURNAL 2, no. 1 (March 18, 2020): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32503/edulink.v2i1.990.
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The study focuses on the flouting of conversational maxims in one of the traditional markets in Kediri. This study focuses on the types of flouted maxims, and the situations where the flouted maxims cause misunderstanding between the sellers and the buyers in the trade of interaction.
This research is conducted by using a descriptive qualitative approach. The data are utterances between sellers and buyers. The theory which the writer used is based on the theory of Cooperative Principles, proposed by Grice (1975), which establishes four maxims, those are the maxim of quality, the maxim of quantity, the maxim of relation and maxim of manner. The data is collected by recording the conversation in the trade transaction. The data is also collected by noting the conversation and transcript it.
The finding shows that there are many flouted maxims found in interaction practices between the seller and buyer. The writer’s analysis show that all kinds of maxims are flouted mostly buy the seller. Those are maxim of quantity, maxima of quality, maxims of relevance and maxim of manner. Thus, it may happen because between the seller and the buyer do not fulfil the rules of cooperative principles. The writer concludes there are some condition which make the participants in the trade interaction have to flout the maxims. Due to the fact that the conversation still run well without any misunderstanding.
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Roqueta, Clara Andrés, Rosa A. Clemente Estevan, and Raquel Flores Buils. "Social cognition and pragmatic competence. The case of children with specific language impairment." International Journal of Psychological Research 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2012): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.21500/20112084.752.
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The literature provides apparently contradictory evidence about the existence of a developmental delay in Social Cognition (SC) of children diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The aim of this work is to prove a more comprehensive picture of these studies, starting with a theoretical review about the relationship between language skills and SC, and finishing with the study of socio-cognitive skills in children with SLI. Finally, the work is concluded by establishing theoretical and practical guidelines that emphasize the importance of assessing the socio-cognitive component of pragmatics to make better diagnoses and to design an appropriate speech therapy for this population.
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Włodarczyk, Matylda, and Irma Taavitsainen. "Introduction." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00010.int.
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Abstract This introductory paper defines the present state of the art of historical (socio)pragmatics. We single out interactional and social foci as the most important, and we briefly characterise some more narrowly defined perspectives. These involve a politeness-related view that relies on relational practice with dynamic negotiations and the context-based approach to language use in time and space with its situational and cultural constraints. Next, the paper discusses the research questions addressed in this Special Issue. The papers cover diachronic changes in rhetorical and sociocultural modes of communication, whether and how irony and sarcasm can be detected in different historical periods, how metadiscourse reveals politeness strategies and intercultural transfer, what disruptive institutional activity types occur and what their cognitive underpinnings are, how ephemeral texts have been used in social and political conflict, how meaning-making practices work on the macro level of genres, and how literacy skills are reflected in correspondence with a connection to genre models. Overall, this introduction aims to set the scene for current historical (socio)pragmatics. We show its interdisciplinarity and methodologically eclectic research ground, and how it may develop in relation to, and feed into, the neighbouring fields of linguistics and the humanities in general.
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Gil, José María. "A relational account of communication on the basis of slips of the tongue." Intercultural Pragmatics 16, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 153–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0008.
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AbstractThey are a good deal more than amusing (or embarrassing) errors of speech. The collection and analysis of such errors provides important clues to how speech is organized in the nervous system.Victoria A. Fromkin (1973: 110)Also, most current linguistics fails to consider various kinds of anomalous data which actually reveal very important information about the structure of the mental system which underlies our linguistic abilities, including slips of the tongue and unintentional puns.Sydney M. Lamb (1999: 9)AbstractThe socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics [SCA] is based on two fundamental hypotheses: (1) speaker and hearer are equal participants in the communicative process, (2) communication is the result of the interplay of intention and attention, as this interplay is motivated by the individuals’ private socio-cultural backgrounds. In this paper, I aim at showing that relational network theory (which has been mainly developed by the American neurolinguist Sydney M. Lamb) allow us to account not only for aspects corresponding to intention or attention, but also for “smooth communication” and “bumpy communication” (being the latter the dimension which includes unintended meanings). Four actual slips of the tongue will be relevant examples thanks to which it can be recognized how cooperation and intention are in a highly complex interaction together with the substantial elements of the individual traits: attention, private experience, egocentrism, and salience. Within this context, the relational account is epistemologically crucial. Firstly, it allows us to represent the neurocognitive structures that enable a person to produce or understand utterances. Secondly, it helps us to suggest that canonical pragmatics (like Speech Acts Theory, Gricean Pragmatics, Relevance Theory) cannot even consider actual and relevant phenomena like slips of the tongue, because they focus on cooperative intention and they neglect (or discard) egocentric attention.
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Yasrebi, Sepideh. "Indirect reports as semantic-pragmatic games." Intercultural Pragmatics 16, no. 4 (August 27, 2019): 463–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0023.
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Abstract This paper examines indirect reports from the lens of socio-cognitive approach (SCA) to pragmatics. Indirect reports have the capacity to re-mold the substance of the original utterance as a whole. In direct reporting, the original utterance is produced in an actual situational context, and then, it is being reported by a different speaker in a new situational context. So, the utterance which was initially produced is only interpretable in the light of the common ground A whereas the reported utterance is only interpretable in the light of common ground B. We have it from Kecskes (2013. Intercultural pragmatics. New York: Oxford University Press: 159) that “common ground is both an a priori existing and a cooperatively constructed mental abstraction. Likewise, the main condition of reporting is the need of the hearer: there would be no need for reported speech if the audience were already aware of the content of the report. For that reason, the process of meaning making in reporting, that is, the transmission and simultaneously creation of meaning is inextricably bound with the question of context, salience, common ground, pragmatics, semantics and syntax, not to mention all those bodily gestures and expressions that can, or more importantly, cannot be registered in language.
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Wodak, Ruth. "Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis." Pragmatics and Cognition 15, no. 1 (May 11, 2007): 203–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.1.13wod.
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This paper discusses important and fruitful links between (Critical) Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. In a detailed analysis of three utterances of an election speech by the Austrian rightwing politician Jörg Haider, it is illustrated in which ways a discourse-analytical and pragmatic approach grasps the intricacy of anti-Semitic meanings, directed towards the President of the Viennese Jewish Community. The necessity of in-depth context-analysis in multiple layers (from the socio-political context up to the co-text of each utterance) moreover emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches when investigating such complex issues as racism and anti-Semitism as produced and reproduced in discourse. More specifically, the relevance of pragmatic devices such as insinuations, presuppositions and implicatures, is discussed when analyzing instances of ‘coded language’, i.e., utterances with indirect and latent racist and anti-Semitic meanings as common in official discourses in Western Europe.
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Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara. "Impoliteness in Early Modern English courtroom discourse." Historical Courtroom Discourse 7, no. 2 (June 23, 2006): 213–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.7.2.04kry.
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The paper investigates whether the notion of impoliteness worked out for synchronic pragmatics is also applicable in diachronic pragmatics. An analysis of two Early Modern English court trial records demonstrates that the answer is positive provided some new dimensions are added. My model of impoliteness cuts across the following axes: structural, semantic, and pragmatic. Structural impoliteness ranges from words and phrases to portions of texts, thus the syntactic dimension cuts across the complexity dimension. The semantic/pragmatic dimension includes numerous non-literal meanings of impoliteness. An utterance can be judged as impolite on the basis of its surface representations (“overt impoliteness”), or the impoliteness of an expression has to be inferred and takes the form of an implicature (“covert impoliteness”). Thus, the final interpretation would depend both on the speaker’s intention when producing an utterance, its (perlocutionary) effect(s) on the addressee, and the overall context. Finally, all these variables cut across the socio-historical dimension.
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Fathurrosyid, Fathurrosyid. "MEMAHAMI BAHASA ALQURAN BERBASIS GRAMATIKAL (Kajian tehadap Kontribusi Pragmatik dalam Kajian Tafsir)." JURNAL At-Tibyan: Jurnal Ilmu Alquran dan Tafsir 3, no. 1 (August 13, 2018): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/tibyan.v3i1.487.
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Interacting with the verses of the Qur'an by conducting analytical activities that stop at the linguistic context and its grammatical structure will not be sufficient to pursue the ultimate truth (maqasid asasiyah). Under such conditions, a secondary device is required to open layers of messages that are settled in text that can not be comprehensively understood from the grammatical perspectives of the text. The device in the study of linguistics is called pragmatic. Pragmatic presence in linguistic studies is context-dependent. The context intended in this pragmatic is not only the personalized context of the -particular (asbab al-nuzul khassah), but also the universal self-impersonal context (asbab al-nuzul 'ammah).Based on the above phenomenon, this research is about to reveal three important issues; First, what is the theory of pragmatics and pragmatics of the Qur'an ?.Secondly, how is the basic assumption of the Qur'anic pragmatics and the steps? Third, what are the contributions of pragmatic theory in the study of Qur'anic commentary ?. The goal, in addition to knowing the intent of pragmatic theory and pragmatics of the Qur'an, is also to unravel the basic assumptions of the Qur'anic pragmatics and what are their contributions in the study of tafsir.This research is library research. The primary data source is the Qur'an about the story of Maryam, while the secondary data is in the form of books of tafsir or books relevant to the theme of the story and pragmatic theory. The procedure is linguistic analysis using critical discourse analysis to reveal the ideology tucked behind the language and phenomenological analysis of the discourses that are told to dismantle the contribution of pragmatic theory in the study of the Qur'anic commentary.This study yields the following conclusions: First, the pragmatics of the Qur'an is a discipline that examines the Qur'ân from the standpoint of the relationship between the dyberic linguistic context; and triadic non-linguistic contexts. Secondly, the basic assumption of pragmatics of the Qur'an is because this scripture does not descend in empty space, but has a dialectical connection to Arab socio-cultural reality. In addition, the Qur'an is a holy book that uses the language media that is full of meaning and subjectivity of the mufassir. Thirdly, the contribution of prasetics in the study of Qur'anic interpretation shows that, (a) the presence of the theory of perlokusi as the instrument of determining the meaning of speakers whether in the form of declarative, imperative or other sentences. (b) implicatures as a deadlock solution of textual grammatical understanding and (c) the presence of pragmatics itself as a tool of understanding based on its context oriented to appropriateness in meaning and oriented appropriateness in form.
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Al-Muslehi, Mahmood A., and Mahdi I. Al-Utbi. "A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of Responses to Impoliteness in some Selected English and Arabic Literary Texts." Al-Adab Journal 2, no. 136 (March 15, 2021): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i136.1278.
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A great number of studies have dealt with impoliteness within the area of pragmatics, but it seems the responses to impoliteness as a socio-pragmatic phenomenon have been somehow neglected. Therefore, by employing a model of impoliteness strategies proposed by Culpeper (2005), this paper aims at investigating of the responses to impoliteness from socio-pragmatic view in English and Arabic literary texts to examine the types of responses to impoliteness, and the ways in which the characters make use of their social power to perform impolite behaviors or utterances to respond to others so as to achieve certain social goals. It worth mentioning that this paper has tackled the responses qualitatively and quantitatively because it explains a specific socio-pragmatic phenomenon which is Impoliteness. The results of the study show that the responses to impoliteness are various in English and Arabic plays which hearers make use of context or their social power to respond to attackers.
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Pelawi, Bena Yusuf. "Aspek Semantik dan Pragmatik dalam Penerjemahan." Lingua Cultura 3, no. 2 (November 30, 2009): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v3i2.341.
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Research deployed translation issues, mainly concerning from semantic and pragmatic aspects. Discussion was started by stating the importance of linguistic aspects comprehended and applied by a translator, such as grammar, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Research presented six meaning problems in translation, those related to lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, contextual meaning or situational meaning, textual meaning, socio-cultural meaning, and idiomatic meaning. It can be concluded that the ability to apply linguistic aspect both from the source and targeted languages take important role to produce a good translation.
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Evianty, Rina, Risnovita Sari, and Muhammad Reza. "Developing Student’s German Language Competencies through Pragmatic Approach in the Classroom for Higher Education." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 3, no. 1 (March 5, 2020): 574–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v3i1.853.
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The general goal of teaching German as a foreign language is that learners can communicate appropriately in writing and orally in German. But in fact this goal can often not be achieved. Many learners in higher education master the German grammar and vocabulary, but they are unable to use German language that matches the social context, because they do not have much pragmatics competence. Pragmatic approach based on the function of language as a communication tool is a study of language by involving various aspects outside the language that are able to provide meaning. Pragmatic competence constitutes a significant factor in determining the success of communication. In fact, a German language learner in higher education is not only expected to use language and produce utterances which are understandable or grammatically correct, but is also expected to produce utterances which are socioculturally appropriate. However, for students in higher education who learn German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache/DaF), the pragmatic competence, which can actually be acquired naturally through social interaction, is quite difficult to acquire due to the limited. On this basis, pragmatics needs to be integrated into German language courses in higher education, which includes pragma linguistics and socio pragmatic. In this regard, this study describes not only the relationship between pragmatics and German as a foreign language, but also this study is an attempt to define its implications in teaching German as foreign language in higher education.
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Lehto, Anu. "Włodarczyk, Matylda: Genre and literacies: Historical (socio)pragmatics of the 1820 settler petition (Seria Filologia Angielska 51)." Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4, no. 1 (March 26, 2018): 129–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2017-0012.
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Akinbode, Oluwole. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Obituaries In Nigerian Newspapers." AGOGO: Journal of Humanities 6 (February 15, 2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46881/ajh.v6i0.233.
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Since the inception of Pragmatics as an independent approach to meaning has independent linguistic study, the approach to meaning has encountered an enormous change. Meaning has been perceived beyond the sentence level. The aim of this paper was to do a pragmatic analysis of selected obituaries in Nigerian newspapers; Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and The Punch. These papers were purposively selected because obituaries were regularly published and publicized through them in a mournful manner and this called for a critical linguistic study by analyzing the mournful use of language with a view to finding out their effects on the decoders. The study of language has been extended significantly beyond mere description of linguistic properties to the various ways which individual communicators convey meanings in different socio-cultural contexts. The theoretical framework for this study is pragmatics. This is because pragmatics has been able to account for social meanings and give new insights to the understanding of literary texts and thus, helping in formulating strategies for the teaching and learning of language. Three Nigerian newspapers namely Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and the Punch were purposively selected for data collection. Relevant texts on obituaries were extracted from them and were critically analyzed for the purpose of this study. It was found out that relatives and friends of the deceased publicized the death of the deceased as memories and sympathy for the departed souls. It is recommended that obituaries should be used for the teaching and learning of English as a Second Language because funerals and obituaries are a significant aspect of African culture.
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Kecskes, Istvan. "The paradox of communication." Pragmatics and Society 1, no. 1 (August 13, 2010): 50–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.1.1.04kec.
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Communication is not as smooth a process as current pragmatic theories depict it. In Rapaport’s words “We almost always fail […]. Yet we almost always nearly succeed: This is the paradox of communication” (Rapaport 2003: 402). This paper claims that there is a need for an approach that is able to explain this “bumpy road” by analyzing both the positive and negative features of the communicative process. The paper presents a socio-cognitive approach (SCA) to pragmatics that takes into account both the societal and individual factors including cooperation and egocentrism that, as claimed here, are not antagonistic phenomena in interaction. This approach is considered an alternative to current theories of pragmatics that do not give an adequate account of what really happens in the communicative process. They consider communication an idealistic, cooperation-based, context-dependent process in which speakers are supposed to carefully construct their utterances for the hearer taking into account all contextual factors and hearers do their best to figure out the intentions of the speakers. This approach relies mainly on the positive features of communication including cooperation, rapport and politeness while almost completely ignores the untidy, trial-and-error nature of communication and the importance of prior contexts captured in the individual use of linguistic units. The overemphasis on cooperative, societal, contextual factors has led to disregard individual factors such as egocentrism and salience that are as important contributors to the communicative process as cooperation, context and rapport. The socio-cognitive approach is presented as a theoretical framework to incorporate and reconcile two seemingly antagonistic sides of the communicative process and explain the dynamic interplay of prior and actual situational contexts.
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Johnson, Cynthia A., and Brian D. Joseph. "Morphology and syntax … and semantics … and pragmatics." Morphology and its interfaces 37, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 306–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.37.2.08joh.
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Agreement minimally involves interaction between morphology and syntax, as a target’s features vary according to the morphological form of a controller in a given syntactic context. However, semantics can also play a role, and the term “semantic agreement” has been used to describe various constructions where morphosyntactic feature values of the agreement target do not match the formal features of the controller, reflecting instead meaning-based properties of the noun. In this paper, we deconstruct instances of “semantic agreement,” as there is good evidence to believe that more than just the semantics is involved in the agreement process. In some cases, e.g. Russian hybrid nouns like vrač ‘doctor’, the local context provides the agreement features, giving a type of “pragmatic agreement”. In other cases, socio-cultural information plays a role, showing a broader type of pragmatic agreement. In light of these observations, we offer a deconstruction of semantic agreement phenomena in order to show the complex ways morphology interacts with syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Finally, we argue that the distinction between syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic agreement is paralleled by (and benefits from) earlier discussions of syntactic versus pragmatic control.
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Thomsen, Ole Nedergaard, and Søren Brier. "Total Integrative Evolutionary Communication: Towards a Cybersemiotic Discourse Pragmatics." Public Journal of Semiotics 6, no. 1 (October 21, 2014): 22–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37693/pjos.2014.6.11467.
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In this paper we outline a cybersemiotic foundation for the trend of pragmatics-based functional linguistics, Functional Discourse Grammar. Cybersemiotics is a substantial inter- and transdisciplinary semiotic theory which integrates, on the one hand, second-order cybernetics and autopoiesis theory and, on the other, Peircean biosemiotics. According to Cybersemiotics, language is primarily a creative process of total integrative evolutionary communication. It comprises three evolutionary stages: (1) biological reflexive languaging (the reflexive foundation of social coordination), (2) instinctual-motivational-emotional sign plays (a level which is shared with other animals and is the domain of ethology), and (3) premeditated, intentional symbol-based language games (specifically human unitary thinking-speaking-gesturing, the domain of pragmatics-based functional linguistics). In this inclusive hierarchy language games subsume the other stages, and thus human evolutionary communication is primarily a symbolic-conventional practice. It is intertwined with the practice of living, that is, with different life forms, including other forms of semiotic behavior. Together they form a coherent biological and socio-cultural practice. The basic “molecule” of the cybersemiotic model of human communication is a dyad between two linguistic cyborgs, alias natural language users. Single human communicators are thus “atoms”. They are hybrids between nature and nurture, manipulating all sorts of artificiality (e.g. pen and ink writing, digital-electronic texting, mobile telephonic amplification). A conventional practice, language occurs in three phases: as discourse process, product, and pattern. As discourse pattern it is deontological-directive (rather than epistemic-declarative) and functions as a finalistic guideline for the communicative processes of single individuals. Thus, rather than being the speech community’s invariant langue, a discourse pattern is a single individual’s communicative competence. Accordingly, shared communicational norms and conventions of the speech community are emergent and not determinant.
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Muir, Sarah. "On Historical Exhaustion: Argentine Critique in an Era of “Total Corruption”." Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, no. 1 (January 2016): 129–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417515000596.
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AbstractThis essay examines the experience of corruption as an unavoidable and self-destructive dynamic of everyday life in post-crisis Argentina. Embedded in both everyday practices and popular evaluations of those practices, corruption in this context of neoliberal crisis operated as a folk category of socio-moral critique much like witchcraft does in some other settings, for it named a cannibalistic logic that imperiled the very framework of sociality. In order to grasp the reflexive pragmatics of this category, the essay attends first to the conceptual, then to the ethnographic, and finally to the historical dimensions of its practical life. Moving across these three dimensions, it argues that corruption indexed a very particular moral sensibility, marked by the sense of exhausted historical possibilities and inevitable national crisis.
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Salaxiddinovich, Ismailov Turgun. "Linguistic Picture Of The World Of The American Presidential Discourse And Its Representation In Uzbeklanguage." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 03, no. 01 (January 30, 2021): 230–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue01-45.
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This article is devoted to the study of the linguistic nature of the presidential discourse, which reflects elements of the socio-political life and culture of the country, as well as common and national specific cultural values. The article notes that the first speech of the presidents has a special place in the genre structure of the presidential discourse, is strongly connected to a particular political event, is recorded in the plan of time and space; In order to emotionally influence the minds of the people, to strengthen the pragmatics of speech, the linguistic means used in this speech, such as axiological lexicon, metaphor, phraseology, syntactic parallelism, rhetorical question, exhortation and appeal, are systematized and focused on their translation into Uzbek.
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Strugielska, Ariadna, and Katarzyna Piątkowska. "A plea for a socio-cognitive perspective on the language-culture-cognition nexus in educational approaches to intercultural communicative competence." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15, no. 1 (August 18, 2017): 224–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.15.1.09str.
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Abstract Intercultural communicative competence (ICC) links three notions, i.e. language, culture and cognition, which are declared crucial in approaches to ICC in educational context. Despite the announced importance of the notions, none of the ICC models specifies the relationship between these elements in a motivated way and hence unjustified dichotomies arise. Educational approaches to ICC can be divided into cognitive or social ones with the former emphasizing an autonomous nature of language, culture and cognition and the latter focusing on social aspects and thus marginalizing cognition. The article aims to stress the need for a socio-cognitive approach to ICC which will view language, culture and cognition in a holistic way. While this approach is based on complexity science, cognitive psychology, grounded cognition and intercultural pragmatics, we demonstrate that cognitive linguistics can become an encompassing framework for a holistic model of ICC.
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Sіuta, Halyna. "Precedent statements in contemporary Ukrainian political rhetoric." Culture of the Word, no. 90 (2019): 120–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2019.90.11.
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Political rhetoric is a clearly socio-centric discourse. In the texts that exemplify this discourse, there is a manipulative-speculative experience of interpretation the texts of the previous culture. The main aspects of the pragmatics of precedent statements in the texts of political rhetoric are argumentativeness, manipulativeness and polemicality. Political language units of communication are: 1) unknown to the general public (they testify to the intelligence, education of political speakers), 2) recognizable precedent statements. The using of the latter provides the effect of communicative proximity, the realization of the communicative situation in axiological coordinates «one’s own – another’s». The using of precedent statements in the language of the policy and their receptiveness to the target audience is an indicator of the proportionality of individual, social or national cultural spheres.
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CORRIGAN, KAREN P., and CHRIS MONTGOMERY. "Special issue on sense of place in the history of English." English Language and Linguistics 19, no. 2 (July 2015): 203–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674315000052.
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This special issue is concerned with how the multidisciplinary concept ‘sense of place’ can be applied to further our understanding of ‘place’ in the history of English. In particular, the articles collected here all relate in some way to complicated processes through which individuals and the communities they are embedded within are defined in relation to others and to their socio-cultural and spatial environments (Convery et al.2012). We have brought together eight articles focusing on specific aspects of this theme using different theoretical models that offer new insights into the history of the English language from the Old English (OE) period to the twenty-first century. The findings will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English dialectology, lexicography, pragmatics, prototype theory, sociolinguistics and syntactic theory.
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Myers-Scotton, Carol. "Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching." Language in Society 22, no. 4 (December 1993): 475–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500017449.
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ABSTRACTThe social forces affecting theperformanceof codeswitching (CS) may be distinguished from those factors controlling its basic structure, with which they interact. The constraints onpossiblepatterns in CS are largely under innately based controls. These constraints are presented here in a model of intrasentential CS, and their validity is tested against findings of CS practices in a number of communities; all options can be accounted for under the model. Thus the options for CS structures seem universally set; but community-specific or group-specific social forces may determine which permissible patterns arepreferred. In addition, micro-level, discourse-based factors may prompt individuals to produce certain CS structures. A second model of the social motivations for CS helps explain both the macro- and micro-level preferences. (Bilingualism, codeswitching, language contact, socio-pragmatics)
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Chipalo, Amani J. "Implicative Denotations of Cigogo Personal Names." Utafiti 14, no. 1 (December 10, 2019): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-14010003.
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Abstract This study takes an onoma-pragmatic approach to investigating Cigogo personal names, in order to identify the determinants of the choices and the implications involved in naming. Personal names are considered here to be utterances like any other, whose understanding depends heavily upon their situational interpretation, based on both general and specific information shared by speakers and surrounding the utterance. Therefore the data in this study were analysed with general background information to retrieve the relevant etymologies, and with specific information to identify their possible implicatures. The findings have shown that Gogo personal names derive etymologically from lineage, seasons, socio-economic activities, calamities, surroundings, birth circumstances and celebrities. All these collectively carry two implicatures: either recording and recalling, or wishes and prayers. The sources of personal names reveal not only how this community reckoned time before the introduction of literacy, but also how they have worshiped. Of further interest is the recording of birthdays, family history and clan legacy by Cigogo speakers through personal names. Some of the names – particularly the ancestral ones – were used as good will prayers and wishes bestowed upon the younger generation. These observations may inspire further study of personal naming, a subject area of pragmatics which so far has not received sufficient systematic attention. Further, the pragmatics of African personal names illuminates one dimension in the complex transmission of cultural and historical information in oral knowledge traditions.
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Al-Azzam, Bakri, and Aladdin Al-Kharabsheh. "The theme of fakhr (self-exaltation) in the translation of Antara’s Mu‘allaqa." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 59, no. 3 (December 31, 2013): 288–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.59.3.03azz.
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This paper investigates the possibility of translating, into English, Antara’s <i>Fakhr</i> (self-exaltation), as a prominent theme in his renowned <i>Mu‘allaqa</i>. The theoretical framework rests on the supposition that a literary work in general and pre-Islamic poetry in particular must be examined within its socio-cultural, spatio-temporal context as a total meaningful structure which entails the semantics and pragmatics of the text.<p>Examining this theme in three selected translations, the analysis shows that the source text has proved that <i>Fakhr</i> (self-exaltation), as a conventional constituent of Antara’s <i>Mu‘allaqa</i>, presents a remarkable degree of sophistication which poses serious translation challenges.<p>The discussion also reveals that, owing to the daunting complexity of incongruence and distance between the cultures of the two languages, the translations have only managed to maintain the textual import, but have not satisfactorily captured the socio-cultural denominations and implications, a perceptible translation erroneousness, which impeded straddling the required semantic effect and the required reader’s response in the target language version.<p>The paper draws the conclusion that the socio-cultural, spatio-temporal context can provide a broader frame of reference for analyzing, interpreting and translating the original Mu‘allaqa in a completely new, contemporary setting of transmission and reception.<p>
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Saddhono, Kundharu, and Fatma Kasim. "The Form and Function of Local Language in Directive Speech Act at A University in Central Sulawesi." Lingua Cultura 10, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v10i1.848.
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The aim of this research was to describe the local language form, function, and typical of it in the directive act at the university in Central Sulawesi. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative in socio-pragmatics approach. The source of the data was gained from lecturers and students utterances in discourse lecture. The data collection used note taking. Meanwhile, the techniques of analyzing data were the interactive analysis that consisted of four steps, namely data collection, data reduction, data analysis, and verification or drawing the conclusion. The result of the research shows that the local language form in directive act consisted of imperative, interrogative, and declarative. The functions of local language in directive acts are the prohibitive function, suggestive function, requestive, and permissive function. The typical local language that used is characterized by regional language and its dialect.
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Oktarini, Widya. "The Use of Language Aspects as Rhetorical Devices in Obama’s Inaugural Addresses." Journal of English Teaching and Learning Issues 2, no. 1 (June 21, 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/jetli.v2i1.4995.
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This research analyzes language aspects as rhetorical devices in inaugural addresses of the presidents of The United States, Barack H. Obama. Specifically, this research aims at describing the use of diction and language style found in the inaugural addresses. This research is descriptive qualitative using discourse analysis approach. In collecting the data, it uses listening method and note-taking technique. In analyzing the data, it uses contextual method by using socio-pragmatics theory. In presenting the result of the analysis, it uses informal method by verbal language. The result of analysis show: the use of language aspects found in inaugural addresses of Obama includes: (a) diction which includes the positive and negative connotation, (b) reference which includes inclusive and exclusive references, (c) language styles includes inclusive and exclusive references, (d) language styles includes repetition (e) the use of figurative language includes metaphor.
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Nazakat and Muhammad Safeer Awan. "Hybridity and Linguistic Pluralism: A Pragmatic Analysis of University Academic Discourse." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. III (September 30, 2018): 447–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(iii-iii).25.
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The language used in academic texts and pedagogy is referred as academic discourse. Being student and teacher, the researchers observed that mixing of home language with academic language was a common practice in many institutions. Some linguists appreciate it, while others resist it by claiming it detrimental to objectivity and neutrality. Chiang (2006) finds role of teacher’s discourse a determining factor in pedagogy. Current study was conducted to observe the phenomenon of hybridization in academic discourse and to assess it in the light of pragmatics. Pragmatic analysis is known as a useful method to infer covert and implicit meanings of language (Savignon, 2007) and the researchers deemed it appropriate for current research. The pragmatic analysis could provide a newer outlook on academic discourse. Data was collected through observation sheet from the classes. Questionnaire was also used to get relevant data from teachers. The findings revealed that teachers often relied on cultural and ideological underpinnings in their pedagogy. The individual conversational styles were also responsible for different mode of hybridization and subsequently reinforced diverse facet of discourse different in pragmatic nature. The data was first analyzed for hybridization followed by its pragmatic analysis. The study was important in the backdrop of one of many beliefs, that meaning never remains fixed and it resides in socio-cultural structures and lack of pragmatic knowledge among interlocutors impedes semantic proficiency. The study revealed utility of pragmatic competence in turning this mixing of discourses in a class into a continuum. It also found that knowledge of academic pragmatics could reinforce semantic proficiency.
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Indrastuti, Novi Siti Kussuji. "NASIONALISME DALAM BINGKAI KRITIK SOSIAL: KAJIAN SOSIO-PRAGMATIK TERHADAP PUISI INDONESIA MODERN." Poetika 7, no. 1 (July 30, 2019): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v7i1.45421.
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Kajian ini bertujuan menemukan bentuk-bentuk kritik sosial yang mengekspresikan nasionalisme dan mengungkapkan relasi antara bentuk-bentuk kritik sosial dan nasionalisme. Puisi sebagai salah satu jenis sastra juga merefleksikan masalah sosial yang terjadi dalam masyarakat. Puisi tidak dapat dipisahkan dari realitas sosial. Respons penyair terhadap realitas sosial yang mengandung ketimpangan, ketidakadilan, dan permasalahan sosial dalam masyarakat disampaikan dalam bentuk kritik sosial yang terefleksi melalui karya-karyanya. Puisi menyatakan kritik sosial yang mengandung nasio-nalisme secara tidak langsung. Dengan demikian, puisi dapat dimanfaatkan sebagai media edukasi, khususnya sebagai sarana untuk menanamkan nilai-nilai nasionalisme. Metode yang dipergunakan dalam kajian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan sosio-pragmatik. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan adanya bentuk-bentuk kritik sosial yang mengekspresikan nasionalisme, antara lain nasionalisme dalam kritik terhadap masalah ekonomi, politik, pendidikan, moral, dan lingkungan. Relasi antara bentuk-bentuk kritik sosial dan nasionalisme menunjukkan bahwa kritik sosial, baik dalam bidang ekonomi, politik, pendidikan, moral, maupun lingkungan, dipergunakan sebagai media untuk menyampaikan nasionalisme.Kata Kunci: nasionalisme; kritik sosial; sosio-pragmatik; puisi This study discusses finding forms of social criticism that invite nationalism and reveal the relationship between forms of social criticism and nationalism. Poetry as a genre of literature also reflects the social problems. Poetry cannot be removed from social reality. The poet's response to the social reality that contains inequality, injustice, and social conflict is conveyed in the form of social criticism reflected through poetry. Poetry about social criticism contained a sense of nationalism. It gave rise to nationalism in the quotations implicitly. Thus, poetry can be used as an educational medium, specifically as a means to instill nationalism values. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative using socio-pragmatics approach. The result of this study showed there are poetry contained a form of social criticism that reflect nationalism, including nationalism in criticizing problems of economic problems, politic, education, moral, and environmental. The relation between forms of social criticism and nationalism shows that social criticism, both in the fields of economics, politics, education, morals, and the environment, is used as a medium to convey nationalism. Keywords: nationalism; social critics; socio-pragmatics; poetry
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Ali, Shurooq Abboodi. "Socio-pragmatic Deficiency in E.Requests." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 10, no. 3 (March 31, 2018): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v10.n3.p2.
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<p>The speech act of request is face-threatening by nature and an inappropriate request can cause offence to the hearer, particularly when s/he has higher authority (Economidou-Kogetsidis, 2011). E-mail is frequently used to facilitate communication between student and professor in Iraq. Iraqi EFL (English as a foreign language) learners face pragmatic difficulty in making proper requests to individuals of higher authority via e-mail. Some studies have been conducted on Arab EFL learners to uncover the pragmatic behaviour of these learners in real-life requests using elicited data. This research fills a gap in Inter-language Pragmatics (ILP) literature in that it investigates the use of academic request in three diverse imposition levels (low, medium, and high) by Iraqi EFL learners when they communicate with their professors via e-mail. This study uses authentic data consists of 200 e-mails related to academic requests sent by Iraqi EFL learners to their professors. Besides, the study uses the CCSARP (cross-cultural speech act realisation project) originally proposed by Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper (1989) and modified later by Biesenbach-Lucas (2007). Qualitative and quantitative analyses are used to analyse the data. The findings reveal that Iraqi EFL learners primarily use direct strategy in all types of request impositions by e-mail. These learners have socio-pragmatic deficiency in high imposition requests; that is, they are mainly direct with their professors in requests call for conventional indirectness to be acceptable pragmatically.</p>
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Dobroiu, Vlad. "Frei Luís de Sousa d’Almeida Garrett. Pour une approche pragmatique du texte dramatique." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Dramatica 65, no. 2 (October 30, 2020): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2020.2.08.
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"Frei Luís de Sousa by Almeida Garrett: a pragmatic analysis of the theatre dialogue. In this article, we analyse, from a pragmatic point of view, the dialogue of the play Frei Luís de Sousa by Almeida Garrett and its translation made by Maxime Formont at the beginning of the 20th century and published in Livourne. We focus on the strategies used by the participants in the theatre discourse in order to consolidate and sometimes even to renegotiate their interpersonal relationship. Our main interest concerns the use of nouns and pronouns in the 1st Act. For a better understanding of the socio-historical context of this play, we propose a short introduction to the 19th century, in Portugal. We also present and analyse some important para-textual pieces of information that accompany the translation made by Maxime Formont. Keywords: translation, theatre discourse, politeness, pragmatics, Almeida Garrett."
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Geenen, Jarret. "Multimodal acquisition of interactive aptitudes." Pragmatics and Society 9, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): 518–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.16006.gee.
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Abstract In this article, I detail incremental microgenetic alterations in the development of one particular socio-interactive aptitude: making a relevant interactive contribution. Taking heed of Clark’s (2014) call for the need to reorient our attention to investigate the pragmatics of interaction by accounting for the multiple communicative modes through which this is acccomplished I detail the ways in which parental facilitation and a flexible participatory configuration, made possible by video-conferencing technology, create conditions enabling the agentive re-introduction of a psycho-socially relevant topic. Paramount are the ways in which residual interactive specificities in introduction, co-production and multimodal configurations re-manifest suggesting a more symbiotic relationship between traditional notions of ‘message’ and ‘production’. During the microgenesis of interactive aptitudes, children are not just learning what constitutes psycho-socially relevant topoi, they also acquire an understanding of exactly how to make the contribution through multimodal ensembles.
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Ren, Juanjuan, and Xinren Chen. "Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students." Pragmatics and Society 10, no. 4 (December 31, 2019): 613–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.18009.ren.
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Abstract A common Chinese addressing practice is to address non-kin people with kinship terms, a phenomenon sometimes described as ‘kinship term generalization’. Previous studies have mainly focused on the characteristics and functions of kinship term generalization, confined to certain specific generalized kinship terms (GKTs for short), and limited to GKTs in some Chinese dialects or certain Chinese literary works. The present study adopts the socio-pragmatic perspective to examine the phenomenon among Chinese graduate students, a social group not heeded in the literature. Based on the analysis of the data collected, we argue that Chinese graduate students’ varying use of GKTs in academic settings is a pragmatic strategy, characterized by the family-centered cultural values of the Chinese society. It is hoped that the present study at the intersection between pragmatics and sociolinguistics may enrich the study of address forms in general, and in particular of Chinese GKTs.