Pragmatics consists of the use of language for a variety of communicative purposes, including requesting, advocating, telling stories, refusing, and making comments. Due to the intersectional nature ...

Children with trauma histories have difficulty in all language domains, but particularly in social pragmatic communication, which consists of interdependent relationships among social cognition, ...

I was recently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by psychologist Jonathan Haidt (2006). Haidt writes: “In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of ...

This article inquires into the role of meaning in linguistic pragmatics (conceived in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication) ...

What is the American character? We can approach this question by looking at some international philosophical stereotypes. Traditionally, the Germans are idealists, the French rationalists, the English ...