Rating communicative adequacy in students’ elicited email requests to faculty – an analysis of individual performance in Italian L1 and English L2
Communicative expertise is shaped by socialisation practices, which vary across groups characterised by different stable social traits (e.g. education, status) and across individuals, who may... Read More
Using conversation analysis (CA) as a pedagogical tool to enhance learners’ intercultural pragmatic abilities
Dervin and Liddicoat (2013) have called for a more learner-centred, non-essentialist and linguistic approach towards intercultural interaction learning. In response to this call, CA, even... Read More
Cross-cultural aspects of pragmatics: Instagram and the official promotion of destinations
Social media serve as a prominent social marketing tool for companies engaged in online product advertising and aiming for swift and effective customer engagement. They... Read More
Portrait of the mountaineering tourist: commands and offers in the promotion of mountain destinations in the Veneto Dolomites
Tourism discourse and its relation to destination marketing and hospitality management is thriving as a topic of research from multiple perspectives and within several disciplines,... Read More
Conditions and motives for the exploitative use of presuppositions
Presuppositions can deliver not only background information but also the main point of the utterance (Simons, 2005). While this exploitative use of presupposition is nothing... Read More
A cross-linguistic account of implicative verbs
Implicative verbs is a category of presupposition triggers that entail the truth of their complement while carrying presuppositions regarding conditions on the context of utterance.... Read More
Stancetaking strategies in Lithuanian argumentative journalistic discourse on migration and refugees
In the recent decade, stance has become the focus of inquiry in discourse on migration and refugees in British, Spanish, Polish, and other national media... Read More