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Fostering EF/SL learners' meta-pragmatic awareness of complaints and their interactive effects
(Routledge, 2015)
This paper suggests a series of steps for teaching complaint behaviour in English. The production of complaints requires a meta-pragmatic awareness of their interactive value and functions, their different types and ...
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The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity: A relevance-theoretic approach
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2021)
This paper adopts a relevance-theoretic perspective to analyse how chirigotas –one of the types of bands in Cadiz carnival– exploit a series of verbal and visual comic elements in order to create or reinforce local ...
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Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme
(2020)
This paper intends to lay the foundations for a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme. In many languages, this morpheme is attached to nouns, adjectives, adverbs or verbs. It frequently nuances their ...
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Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: an exploratory study
(International Society for Humor Studies, 2022)
This paper reports on an exploratory study examining joke identification, appreciation and comprehension by Spanish intermediate ESL learners. The study is based on a relevance-theoretic classification of jokes, which ...
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Politeness: Always Implicated?.
(Universidad de Valencia, 2007)
Based on the relevance-theoretic distinction between explicit and implicit communication, and the notion of explicature of an utterance and its different types (Sperber and Wilson, 1986, 1995; Wilson and Sperber, 1993, ...