Pragmatics consists of the use of language for a variety of communicative purposes, including requesting, advocating, telling stories, refusing, and making comments. Due to the intersectional nature ...

Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

Therapy, as currently practiced, is often a linguistically mediated enterprise. The client says certain things, and the therapist says things or asks questions in response. So, when considering how ...