Listar por tema "speech acts"
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Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon ... -
Assessing politeness of requestive speech acts produced by Japanese learners of English in a spoken corpus
(2017)This study aims to investigate whether it is possible to assess learners’ sociopragmatic competence in learner spoken data by examining requests produced by Japanese learners of English. Various pragmalinguistic features ... -
Corpus Pragmatics and Multimodality: Compiling an ad-hoc Multimodal Corpus for EFL Pragmatics Teaching
Gate Association for Teaching and Education (GATE) (2020-12-05)The teaching and acquisition of foreign language pragmatics as a part of the communicative competence paradigm has been reported as essential since the deviation from the Chomskian competence-based model to a more ... -
Developing Requests in EFL Instructional Contexts: The Role of Age
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-02)Over the last five decades, the field of pragmatics has grown largely, so many researchers have attempted to provide useful approaches to teach pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educational contexts. As ... -
Integrating the Speech Act of Refusals in the Instructed Setting
Universidad de Vigo (2012)The purpose of this paper is to provide aninstructional approach for the integration of a particularpragmatic aspect, specifically, the speech act of refusals.To do that, the paper begins with a description of ... -
Presence and Relevance of Fillers in English. Teaching Language Textbooks
Universitat Jaume I (2013)One of the main problems that English language learners tend to present is that they do not communicate appropriately in the speaking mode after years of learning, although they have a consolidated knowledge of grammar and ... -
Task-based language teaching: developing pragmatic competence in conversation
Universitat Jaume I (2019)Many studies (O’Keeffe, Clancy, & Adolphs, 2011) have proven it is necessary to develop pragmatic competence to truly learn a language, and that textbooks are insufficient to do it. However, pragmatic competence is ... -
Teaching refusal strategies in the foreign language classroom: a focus on inductive-deductive treatments
Universidad de La Rioja (2013)The present paper attempts to present a pedagogical model for the integration of pragmatic competence in the foreign language classroom by following an inductive-deductive approach. For the sake of the current article, the ... -
The implementation of ICT to teach pragmatics in spanish secondary schools: a focus on apologies
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-03)This paper is about teaching pragmatics challenging the traditional methods used in education. The need to teach speech acts, specifically apologies, has developed the creation of a teaching proposal. The implementation ... -
The potential of sitcoms to present refusals in extended discourse
Universitat Jaume I (2020-06-02)Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of teaching the speech act of refusals in classroom settings since their face-threatening nature complicates their attainment (Fernández-Guerra, 2013). In this vein, it has ... -
The use and function of "please" in learners' oral requestive behaviour : a pragmatic analysis
Universidad de La Rioja (2009)The aim of this paper is to focus on “please” as one of the most frequent modifiers used to mitigate the impositive speech act of requesting. However, apart from this main function, scant attention has been paid to the ...