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Martina Blecic – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
In this paper I suggest a pragmatic model for the notion of 'information' used in molecular biology in the description of protein synthesis. Discarding any ontological commitments of the term 'information', I propose a view of information based on an analogy with communication. This view could at least supplement the existing information-metaphor…
Descriptors: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Figurative Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Boyd H. Davis; Meredith Troutman-Jordan; Margaret Maclagan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: This study reports on new contexts in which formulaic language has been used in the years since 2013 when the last synthesis was carried out. The background presents an old but still useful definition and lists themes under which research was arranged in 2013 and which continue to be used. Aims: This study has a particular emphasis on…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics
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Robert Godwin-Jones – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Generative AI offers significant opportunities for language learning. Tools like ChatGPT provide second language practice through chats in written or voice formats, with the learner specifying through prompts conversational parameters. AI can be instructed to give corrective feedback and create practice exercises. Using AI, instructors can build…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
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Siddiqui, Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Pragmatics is a major study of linguistics that defines the hidden meanings of a writer and speaker towards the conjoining effort of linguistic form. It is stated along with its user. Within pragmatics the importance is usually given to a contextual meaning, where every other meaning of given context is referred to speaker as well as writer that…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, Speech Acts, Language Usage
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Zhang, Weiwei – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper discussed the relationship between language, ecology, and culture, and claimed that the study of linguistic communication as pragmatics should not be confined to the traditional context, but should focus on a broader ecological environment. It analyzed the context of practical communication from the perspective of language ecology…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Classification, Correlation, Ecology
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Peng, Yuan-yuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Recently, there are limited specific researches on the pragmatic strategies of teachers' criticism from the angle of the Politeness Principle, among which most of them argue that teachers should adopt appropriate politeness strategies when criticizing students. However, only a few researchers point out that Leech's Politeness Principle is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Empathy, Criticism
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Littlewood, William – English Teaching, 2021
Twenty-six learners of English enrolled in an MA course were asked to give the metaphors which they think best capture the essence of their learning experience so far. Their metaphors tell how English learning had introduced them to a brand new world and, once they were inside it, led them to a seemingly endless series of new discoveries. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Pragmatics
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Angrist, Mira – NECTFL Review, 2022
This article describes how to help students connect what they learn in the language classroom to the outside world as they learn to understand, produce, and analyze spoken, written, visual, and cultural information in their second language (L2). As learners make connections between course material and the physical and virtual spaces where the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Art, Physical Environment
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Zyzik, Eve – Second Language Research, 2017
The extensive literature on subject expression in Spanish makes for rich comparisons between generative (formal) and usage-based (functional) approaches to language acquisition. This article explores how the problem of subject expression has been conceptualized within each research tradition, as well as unanswered questions that both approaches…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Syntax
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Lu, Licheng – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on Jenny Thomas's dichotomous classification of pragmatic failure, this study proposes a new perspective and classifies pragmatic failure in interpretation into three categories: pragma-linguistic failure, socio-pragmatic failure and malaprop-pragmatic failure. Specific examples are given to illustrate the causes and effects of each category…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Formosinho, Maria; Jesus, Paulo; Reis, Carlos – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
Language is the main resource for meaningful action, including the very formation of selves and psychosocial identities, shaped by practical norms, beliefs, and values. Thus, language education constitutes one of the most powerful means for both social reproduction and social production and ideological maintenance and utopian innovation. In this…
Descriptors: Language Role, Self Concept, Monolingualism, Multilingualism
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Sabet, Masoud Khalili; Tavakoli, Marjaneh – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
The ability to comprehend and use metaphors in L2 which is referred to as metaphorical competence is an important issue in second language acquisition. Metaphors are so pervasive in our life that we might not realize their presence and simply neglect them even in our first language. Different models of communicative competence have been suggested…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Dolcini, Grace; Phelps, Grit Matthias – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Globalization and the digitalization of our lives have made it impossible to avoid (inter)cultural encounters. In the traditional classroom environment, students are expected to juggle a myriad of choices almost simultaneously. Factors like grammar, pronunciation, word choice, etc. are all important assessment factors to consider when looking at…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Instructional Design, Personal Autonomy
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Godwin-Jones, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
It has been repeatedly asserted in recent years that telecollaboration is such a powerful and effective tool for both second language acquisition (SLA) and fostering intercultural communication competence (ICC) that it should be regularly included in foreign language instruction (Çiftçi & Savas, 2018; Lewis & O'Dowd, 2016a; O'Dowd, 2016a;…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Social Media, Teaching Methods
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Kaliska, Marta – Research-publishing.net, 2018
According to Kasper (1992), L2 pragmatic knowledge affects all communicative acts. It can be described as the speaker's ability both to adapt linguistic formulae to social contextual constraints and to understand the implications of indirect utterances. The Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) describes pragmatic competence…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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