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Understanding and Overcoming Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication: From Focus on Speakers to Focus on Hearers
(De Gruyter, 2013)
For learners to communicate efficiently in the L2, they must avoid pragmatic failure. In many cases, teachers' praxis centres on the learner's performance in the L2 or his role as a speaker, which neglects the importance ...
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On the Phatic Interpretation of Utterances: a Complementary Relevance-Theoretic Proposal
(Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2005)
In this paper, I suggest a theoretical approach to the production and interpretation of phatic utterances aimed at complementing other previous accounts. These argue that utterances are normally interpreted as phatic either ...
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Conceptual Competence Injustice and Relevance Theory, a Reply to Derek Anderson
(SERRC. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 2017)
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Ad hoc concepts, affective attitude and epistemic stance
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023)
In relevance-theoretic pragmatics the lower-level or first-order explicature is a propositional form resulting from a series of inferential developments of the logical form. It amounts to the message the speaker communicates ...
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Dealing with jokes in the ESL class: a pedagogical proposal centred on comprehension
(Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2019)
This paper makes a pedagogical proposal to delve into jokes in the ESL classroom and sensitise learners to their complexity. It consists of five instructional phases and is based, on the one hand, on another proposal to ...
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Pragmatic competence injustice
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)
When engaging in verbal communication, we do not simply use language to dispense information, but also to perform a plethora of actions, some of which depend on conventionalised, recurrent linguistic structures. Additionally, ...