This paper reports on an examination of the actions that Spanish epistemic agents perform in order to question, challenge, ...

In relevance-theoretic pragmatics the lower-level or first-order explicature is a propositional form resulting from a ...

Given that humour greatly impacts customer satisfaction and loyalty, this paper explores thedialogical forms of humour ...

This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish ...

Este trabajo pretende dar a conocer qué es el inglés aeronáutico y la importancia de utilizar esta modalidad de inglés con ...

This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas –one of the types of bands in Cadiz carnival– ...

With the development of globalization, people are emphasizing the quality of online information which contributes to the ...

In relevance-theoretic pragmatics, lexical adjustment, or ad hoc-concept construction, is considered a case of free pragmatic ...

Este trabajo define y explica el concepto de turismo idiomático y su evolución con el paso de los años. Este tipo de turismo ...

This work proposes a tourist guide to Seville in Easy to Read format. After discussing inclusive tourism and the various ...

This work proposes a tourist guide to Seville in Easy to Read format. After discussing inclusive tourism and the various ...

For communicated contents to be accepted by the audience, they have to pass the filters of epistemic vigilance mechanisms, ...

This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, ...

This work undertakes an empirical study of one of the least researched issues in interlanguage pragmatics so far: ...

This paper makes a pedagogical proposal to delve into jokes in the ESL classroom and sensitise learners to their complexity. ...

In the third stage in the development of the notion of procedural meaning, relevance theorists analysed expressive devices ...

When engaging in verbal communication, we do not simply use language to dispense information, but also to perform a plethora ...

Un creciente número de publicaciones demandan estudios que identifiquen los componentes y recursos pedagógicas que se usan ...

Noises, similarities between words, slips of the tongue, ambiguities, wrong or false beliefs, lexical deficits, inappropriate ...

This study explores the behaviour of (pre-)intermediate Spanish learners of English for the Tourism Industry at the ...

The mind has developed vigilance mechanisms that protect individuals from deception and misinformation (Sperber et al. ...

Humans are vigilant against deception and misinterpretation thanks to a set of cognitive mechanisms that monitor their ...

This paper suggests a series of steps for teaching complaint behaviour in English. The production of complaints requires ...

Stemming from real or seeming incompetence, the pragmatic failures L2 learners and LF speakers often commit may lead to ...

L2 learners may make interpretive mistakes at both the explicit and the implicit levels of communication. They may not ...

Learners of English may have problems or make mistakes when engaging in phatic communion, as its use requires a meta-pragmatic ...

For learners to communicate efficiently in the L2, they must avoid pragmatic failure. In many cases, teachers' praxis ...

Humans have developed a critical alertness to the believability and reliability of communication: epistemic vigilance ...

This paper analyses rapport management at the opening phase of interaction by Spanish students of English as an L2 in ...

The current relevance-theoretic approach to interjections (Wharton 2000, 2001, 2003) analyses these as procedural elements ...

Based on the relevance-theoretic distinction between explicit and implicit communication, and the notion of explicature ...

The relevance-theoretic (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995) analysis of ironic and phatic utterances has shown that both types ...

The aim of this paper is to suggest a pragmatic explanation for some of the morphological changes that occurred in the ...

In this paper, I suggest a theoretical approach to the production and interpretation of phatic utterances aimed at ...

El propósito del presente trabajo de investigación es la realización de una aproximación pragmática a los enunciados fáticos ...

En la extensa literatura sobre los saludos, éstos han sido abordados desde muy diversas perspectivas. Así, algunos autores ...