TESL Reporter 38‚ 1 (2005)‚ pp. 17-26 17 Teaching Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom? SURE You Can! Mark N. Brock Carson-Newman College‚ Tennessee‚ USA Yoshie Nagasaka Kobe‚ Japan There are a number of language competencies which English language learners must develop‚ in tandem‚ in order to communicate successfully in English. Any successful communicative event‚ at least one that extends beyond expressions of simple‚ immediate need‚ will require that L2 speakers have developed some mastery
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Bibliography: Goffman‚ E. (1976) & Coulthard (1977) Interaction ritual: essays on face to face behaviour. New York: Garden City. Mey‚ J.L. (1993) Pragmatics: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers. Maybin‚ J. & Mercer‚ N. (1996) Using English: From Conversation to Canon. Routledge. Nosfinger‚ R. (1991) Telephone Conversation. Indiana: University Press. Pugh‚ A.K. – Lee‚ V.J. & Swann‚ J. (1980) Language
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Implicature is a theoretical construct which was first introduced by Grice in the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1967 and was later published in 1975 under the title Logic and Conversation. Grice’s basic idea was to clarify the difference between what is expressed literally in a sentence and what is merely suggested or hinted at by the utterance of the same string of words. To distinguish the latter from the former‚ Grice (1975) uses the neologisms implicate and implicature‚ while he refers
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CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………………....................3 Chapter 1: Speech Act Theory…………………………………...................5 Chapter 2: Indirect Speech Acts in English………………........................10 Conclusion…………………………………………..………................…..15 References……………………………………………..………...................17 INTRODUCTION Language is an inseparable part of our everyday lives. It is the main tool used to transmit messages‚ to communicate ideas‚ thoughts and opinions. It situates us in the
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theories in China since 1980s‚ Chinese scholars have published a large number of essays and books which focus on euphemism from different perspectives and systematically summarize the causes of its production‚ way of composition‚ classification‚ and pragmatic principles of composition as well as its social functions. (Shu‚ 1995‚ p17; Liu‚ 2000‚ p36) Actually‚ political euphemism has always been a point of penetration for foreign political linguists to evaluate and criticize political discourse. In the
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Reading: Iñiguez‚ L (2003) Análisis del Discurso (chapter 3). Editorial UOC. Very readable and avoids technical terminology. Wetherell‚ M (2001) Themes in Discourse Research: the case of Diana. In Wetherell et al (eds) Discourse Theory and Practice London: Sage Comprehensive and clear. Discourse Analysis "Discourse analysis" means many things to many people. One thing they all agree on is that the analyst’s first focus must be on language‚ and what it does in the world. So far‚ CA agrees
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Presupposition and Entailment Presupposition is what the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance. Entailment‚ which is not a pragmatic concept‚ is what logically follows from what is asserted in the utterance. Speakers have presuppositions while sentences‚ not speakers‚ have entailments. Take a look at the example below: Jane’s brother bought two apartments. This sentence presupposes that Jane exists and that she has a brother. The speaker may also hold the
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Assignment On Communicative Competence Submitted by; Ijaz Hussain M.A. English 3rd Semester (Morning ) Submitted to; Sir Tanveer Ahmad Institute of Southern Punjab Multan COMPETENCE: Ability to satisfy complex demands. COMMUNICATION: Communication is commonly defined as "the interchange
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Austin’s Speech Act Theory and the Speech Situation Etsuko Oishi Esercizi Filosofici 1‚ 2006‚ pp. 1-14 ISSN 1970-0164 link: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~eserfilo/art106/oishi106.pdf AUSTIN’S SPEECH ACT THEORY AND THE SPEECH SITUATION Etsuko Oishi The talk starts with a question‚ why do we discuss Austin now? While answering the question‚ I will (I) present an interpretation of Austin’s speech act theory‚ (II) discuss speech act theory after Austin‚ and (III) extend Austin’s speech act
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Pragmatics is the study of meaning recognition expressed either in oral or in written forms‚ which deals with the use of social context and the ways people produce and comprehend meanings through language (Mey‚ 2011). Language as a tool to express or convey meaning is widely used in communication. Conversely‚ communication‚ as it uses language‚ functions for many different purposes and one of which is persuasion. Persuasion is an act of convincing
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