• openAccess   Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory 

      Di Sarno García, Sofia 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 ...
    • openAccess   Developing Requests in EFL Instructional Contexts: The Role of Age 

      López Villalba, Alba 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 ...
    • closedAccess   The implementation of ICT to teach pragmatics in spanish secondary schools: a focus on apologies 

      Rodríguez Buitrago, Yaiza 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 ...
    • closedAccess   The potential of sitcoms to present refusals in extended discourse 

      Arnal Ortega, María 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 ...