Therefore, these words should form an independent category as they perform similar pragmatic functions during interactions above their basic semantic meaning, that is, these words can be regarded as ...

Cognitive Linguistics - Explore issues relating to the semantic and pragmatic mechanism of language and communication - Research and Markets ...

Collectively, the results not only contribute to the understanding of English acquisition under conditions of restricted access to spoken language input, they also suggest that pragmatic factors may ...

This paper examines the semantic/pragmatic constraints on null objects in spoken BP in detail, and situates BP null objects in the broader cross-linguistic perspective of differential object marking.

All the usages in such three domains share the same formal expression, namely, “q, because p”. Such basic constructions are interrelated to each other through metaphorical mappings, displaying ...