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This article provides a review of research in the acquisition of pragmatic knowledge by second language learners. It begins with a definition of pragmatics and second language acquisition that emphasizes the complex relationship between the acquisition of grammar and language use. [...]Abstract
The aim of this work is to offer some exemples of the discourse study form the point of view of the pragmatic analysis. To do this the author has begun explaining the meaning of the terms involved in it: pragmatic presupposition, conventional and donversational implication. Afterward [...]Abstract
Conca studies some catalan Proverbs from Middle Ages in a semiotic and pragmatic scope. Her paper deals with the borders between literary and non literary discourse in the field of this genre: proverbs as isolated, decontextualized texts that goin to the accumulative thesaurus of [...]Abstract
What time is it? Prefaced by this question, this paper investigates a number of ways to express the time in Catalan from a dialectal and pragmatic perspectiva. In this article, all dialectal varieties of the two main ways to tell the time (one based on the next hour, i.e. “one quarter [...]Abstract
Our aim in this article is to outline the evolution of stylistics in France trying to build up some conceptual criteria that allow us to explain present tendencies concerning such notions as intersubjectivity and semiosphere, as well as the description of a number of rhetoric phenomena [...]Abstract
En santa Teresa de Jesús se distinguen dos facetas: la vida contemplativa y la vida activa como fundadora de conventos. Ambos aspectos están sujetos a la práctica de la comunicación, que adopta un estilo subjetivo, afectivo, paradójico y conversacional tanto en sus obras doctrinales [...]