In multilingual Georgia, Georgian as the state language influences minority languages, but in those regions where dialects of Georgian and minority languages are in contact,... Read More

The term ‘explicatures’ pertains to the inferential developments made in the explicit aspect of utterances with the objective of attaining a greater degree of clarity (Sperber & Wilson, 1986).... Read More

A significant contribution to honorific research emerges from investigations into the complexities of honorific forms, as well as the extensive sociopragmatic characterizations of honorific systems... Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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