While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of
genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface …

The present paper attempts to provide a critical evaluation of the most prominent
pedagogical models that have dealt with the language of the second language (L2) learner …

This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue:
commands and requests, command softeners and strengtheners, statement hedges …

本文探讨并回答了研究者诸多关于译者行为批评理论的称谓问题, 包括: 为什么“译者行为批评”
英译为translator behavior criticism, 而“译者行为” 却多用translator's behavior? 为什么“行为” …

" The present book looks into the main factors that have so far prevented a comprehensive
and systematic treatment of speech acts in EFL textbooks and offers an alternative cognitive …

This book shows how research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy of language, and rhetoric
can be connected through argumentation to analyze a recognizably common strategy used …

The fields of linguistic pragmatics and legal interpretation are deeply interrelated. The
purpose of this paper is to show how pragmatics and the developments in argumentation …

The imperative should be thought of as a comparative concept, defined as a sentence type
whose only prototypical function is the performance of the whole range of directive speech …

The notion of an indirect speech act is at the very heart of cognitive pragmatics, yet, after
nearly 50 years of orthodox (Searlean) speech act theory, it remains largely unclear how this …

Cancellability is an essential feature of implicatures. However, its reliability has been
challenged by several cases and examples in which conversational implicatures seem to be …