Dramatic discourse as intercultural discourse. The Case of Matei Vișniec’s “The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True”
This presentation sees plays and their productions as complex communicative environments whose understanding relies on different intercultural pragmatic strategies (Kecskés, 2013). The focus is on... Read More
Patterns of Thanking in Asian Englishes: A Local Grammar Based Investigation
Adopting the local grammar approach, this study examines the speech act of thanking in the four varieties of English, with a view to exploring the... Read More
On Inherently and Contextually Aggressive Speech Acts
Most pragmatics research on verbal aggression and conflict tends to envisage the phenomenon in terms of communicative strategies rather than of verbal actions serving them,... Read More
Discursive structure as a genre-marking quality of online discourses
In a social cognitive approach, genres are perceived as discursive schemas and usage-based discursive categories activated both during discourse production and processing. In this view,... Read More
Common Ground as (Inter)cultural ‘Inbetweeness’ in Human – Machine Communication: A Literary Pragmatic Perspective
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence technology have given impetus to extensive research in human-machine linguistic interactions, dialogues in particular, that render a feeling of almost... Read More
Exploring Pragmatics with AI: An Intercultural Communication Perspective
As artificial intelligence is increasingly integrated into our daily lives, understanding the nuances of human-AI communication is an interesting area of study given the ability... Read More
On the Stance-Marking Functions of the Korean Proximal Demonstrative
Across languages, demonstratives grammaticalize into various grammatical and discourse-pragmatic markers. Using corpora of natural conversation and scripted drama conversation, and employing the theoretical frameworks of... Read More
“We may also need to look at this issue from a different angle”: the use of epistemic modality in the language of diplomats
Word Modality typically conveys the speaker’s confidence or lack of confidence in the truth of the proposition expressed (Palmer, 2001; Facchinetti, Krug & Palmer, 2003;... Read More