Imagine walking into a room where the air feels thick with unspoken tension. You exchange a glance with someone, and instantly, a silent dialogue unfolds. Emotions, assumptions, and intentions are ...

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 ...

While growing up in Vietnam, Long Nguyen found himself drawn to historical accounts of U.S. entrepreneurs who had a penchant for pragmatism and innovative, can-do thinking. So when he had a chance to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper is an attempt to demarcate the fields of Semantics and Pragmatics. The traditional problem of intrusion of Semantics upon ...

Research in pragmatics and politeness explores how individuals manage social interactions through contextually sensitive language strategies. It interrogates the subtle interplay between speech acts ...

Pragmatics has won a number of task orders totaling $10 million to support the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Pragmatics has won a number of task orders totaling $10 million to support the U.S.

I was expecting a “hello” or “hi,” statements of straightforward recognition. “Hey, you” was more knowing, more familiar. Say it in a crowd, and you place yourself and the other person in a cozy kind ...

The paper is a critical survey of the semantics and pragmatics of Indexicals. Both the coordinate-approach due to Lewis and the semantization of pragmatics attempted by Lakoff are shown to be ...