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

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

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

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”, stated Orwell (1946,... Read More

This presentation investigates the linguistic expressions of a number of illnesses in Jordanian Arabic (JA). Drawing on naturally occurring data, we supply evidence that illnesses... Read More

In Algeria, while Arabic serves as the official language, the colloquial Algerian dialect, known as Algerian Darija, is used in daily communication (Harrat et al.,2016).... Read More

Speech act research in Variational Pragmatics has a long tradition in eliciting data via Discourse Completion Task (DCT) questionnaires and analyzing the resulting data based... Read More

African Englishes have been studied widely in terms of structural phenonema, such as pronunciation, lexis, and syntax. Pragmatic aspects, however, have hitherto been largely neglected... Read More

Misunderstanding is unavoidable in communication due to interlocutors’ restricted access to similarities, conventions, standards, and norms. Naturally, interlocutors would change pathways to prevent the predicted... Read More

The phenomenon of street children is a complex global issue, but their population and experiences in Third World countries are a cause for concern and... Read More