Forensic linguistics is a distinct field of study in the science of language that places
significant emphasis on the observation of language usage in our daily lives, including …

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common
language for communication between speakers whose first language is not English …

This chapter reviews the research on multilingual adults' and children's comprehension of
non-literal meanings, an aspect of pragmatic competence that has been relatively well …

Recent research has reported superior socio-communicative skills in bilingual children. We
examined the hypothesis of a bilingual pragmatic advantage by testing bilingual, bi-dialectal …

Parallel to globalization, our world is becoming increasingly multilingual. We examined the
effect of multilingualism on irony comprehension, focusing on a specific type of multilinguals …

We investigated the effect of presenting items in a foreign language (L2) on scalar-
implicatures computation. To ensure that L2 processing was more effortful than the …

We examine first language (L1) attrition among 30 L1 Spanish–L2 English speakers living in
the United Kingdom. We also tested 30 recently-arrived Spaniards to the UK as a baseline …

Indirect communication occurs when a speaker does not explicitly say what s/he means but
rather only hints at it and the recipient has to make inferences to uncover the speaker's …

This study examines interpretation of scalar implicatures (SI) in the L2 Spanish of native
English advanced learners. Spanish is especially interesting since, unlike English, it has two …

Rhetorical questions (RhQs) are a complex phenomenon at the interface of pragmatics,
prosody and syntax, which requires reasoning on intentions and goals, and which involves a …