Sentence examples for linguistic pragmatics from inspiring English sources

Linguistic pragmatics studies the context-dependent use and interpretation of expressions.

These issues are relevant for applications to linguistic pragmatics as well, as we will demonstrate presently with the example of M-implicatures/Horn's division of pragmatic labor.

The principal research issues examined here are twofold: (i) the validity of the 'Pollyanna Principle', a concept in linguistic pragmatics adapted from the 'Pollyanna Hypothesis' of psychology, and designed to account for the preference on the part of speakers for avoiding or mitigating negative terms and expressions.

The main disadvantage to comparing language and music processing by testing perception of speech and musical excerpts is that the acoustic properties, context, and secondary associations (e.g., musical style or linguistic pragmatics) between even the most carefully controlled stimuli may vary greatly between the two domains.

Additional file 1: Freiburg Questionnaire of linguistic pragmatics.

This study aims to investigate psychometric properties of the Freiburg Questionnaire of linguistic pragmatics (FQLP).

The need to teach this ability is crucial because writing is not only a way of discourse manifestation but a way of manifesting the linguistic, pragmatic, intercultural and strategic competence also.

Eighth, the inclusion of subjects for the C-group using personal contacts of the authors might have introduced a bias towards high linguistic pragmatic abilities in this group.

In a previous study (Egorova et al. 2013), we reported surprisingly early brain signatures of linguistic-pragmatic processes.

The original UK PACT follows a developmental approach to supporting communication, addressing social, pre-linguistic, pragmatic, and linguistic impairments which are present in ASD.

To incorporate these features, linguistic-pragmatic speech act types can be described in terms of action sequences and commitments about the assumptions and intentions of both communication partners (Van Dijk 1977; Bateman and Rondhuis 1997; Asher and Lascarides 2003; Asher and Vieu 2005; Egorova et al. 2013; Fritz 2013).