'Self‐deprecation'(SD) is widely understood within social psychology and popular culture as
a form of self‐talk that reflects a cognitive state, such as low self‐esteem or negative self …

Over the past decade, the field of L2 motivation research has begun to turn its focus toward
what Dörnyei and Ushioda (2010) have termed “socio-complexity” approaches, following …

Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis and past literature on synchronization, this
study sheds light on the temporal properties of embodied remembering, which we define as …

This article analyzes how perceptions of communicative competence are discursively
constructed in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese. Talking about appropriate …

Despite a huge body of literature on compliment and compliment response speech acts in
diverse linguacultures (see Section 2), there is still an unmet need in research investigating …

Abstract Drawing on a Symbolic Interactionist perspective and the Grounded Theory
methodology, this study aimed to explore self-denigration from the perspective of Iranian …

In this study, we examined the use of compliments, self-praise, and self-denigration, as
exchanged among nonnative English users. This was part of participation in an online cross …

This study aims to explore the fundamental and necessary unit in discourses that initiate with
negative self-assessment. Since past research has mainly focused on the second …

In this paper, the pragmatic functions served by ḥāshāk and its variants in colloquial
Algerian Arabic (CAA) are unravelled. Literally, ḥāshāk means “You're exalted/exempt from …

Service-learning (SL) is an experiential pedagogy that engages students in working for, with,
and in communities in need. While prior research has explored the effects of SL on second …