Broadly speaking, pragmatic competence can be defined as the ability to communicate appropriately in a social context. Learning how to use pragmatic features adequately in a particular setting is paramount for language ...

The expansion in the use of digital information environments, especially the Web, has brought to the need of improving the interaction between individuals and computational mechanisms. In this regard, the Web makes it ...

La Pragmática Aplicada se ha convertido en un área importante para el estudio de la enseñanza- aprendizaje de una lengua, gracias al desarrollo de nuevos paradigmas en la Lingüística Aplicada. El presente artículo se basa ...

Pragmatic competence is considered one of the most important elements in language learning. In recent years, researchers around the world have placed their attention on how language is used in context. A competent speaker ...

This article has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, it aims to reconstruct Josiah Royce’s views on evil. On the other hand, it intends to examine these Roycean views within the framework of Richard Bernstein’s work, ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the change undergone by constructions with enquanto (que) in Portuguese. The performed analysis provides evidence that, along with changes in meaning, in which the temporal relationship ...