Towards a rating scale for assessing functional adequacy in oral L2 interactions
The interest in the functional dimension of language and in the pragmatic aspects involved in learning an L2 has begun to find a fruitful systematisation... Read More
Developing pragmatics curriculum for Japanese high school English textbooks
Pragmatic and interactional abilities are a central part of all the models of communicative competence (Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Canale, 1983; Canale & Swain, 1980).... Read More
Dynamic constraint-satisfaction models and figurative language
Understanding figurative language, such as irony and metaphor, has long intrigued researchers in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. Parallel constraint-satisfaction models propose that individuals interpret meaning... Read More
Procedural Structures: the case of pre-posed subordinate clauses
What is the difference in meaning between the sentence-structure in (1)/(3), on the one hand, and that in (2)/(4), where the subordinate clause has been... Read More
The use of first person plural as an attitude marker
Adopting the perspective of functional pragmatics (cf. Verschueren 1999; Tátrai 2017), the talk focuses on the study of first-person plural forms in their attitude-marking capacity.... Read More
Keep your eye on the ball: processing of pragmatic comprehension tasks.
Pragmatic competence encompassing such abilities as using the language for different purposes and understanding various intentions (Bialystok, 1993) is rarely placed in the limelight of... Read More
Students’ inferential reading skills in Italian L1 and English L2
Understanding a written text involves decoding what it conveys explicitly and implicitly. This may pose challenges to children, elders and people with atypical development (Domaneschi,... Read More
Contextualization and perspectivization in lyrics
The paper approaches the dynamic process of contextualization (cf. Auer 2009) as a mobilization of background knowledge that seems relevant to the perspectives of discourse... Read More
A lexical pragmatic view on the relationship between word meanings and encyclopedic knowledge
In the past two decades or so, the investigation of word meaning has experienced a highly intensive interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. Although various... Read More
Corpus-based analysis of independent conditional clauses and their semantic-pragmatic roles in Hungarian
Independent conditional clauses starting with the subordinate conjunction ha ‘if’ have diverse pragmatic functions (Evans 2007) in Hungarian (1) (2). They are not easy to... Read More