Discourse and pragmatics encompass the study of language as it is used in real contexts, probing not only its formal structure but also the rich, context‐dependent processes by which meaning is ...

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) is a biennial international conference series intended to further the quantitative analysis of variation and change at the level of discourse-pragmatics ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper is an attempt to demarcate the fields of Semantics and Pragmatics. The traditional problem of intrusion of Semantics upon ...

DiPVaC4 is pleased to welcome as plenary speakers Professor Yael Maschler, Professor Terttu Nevalainen, Dr. Heike Pichler, and Professor Jan-Ola Östman. Prof. Yael Maschler Professor Yael Maschler is ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce to the linguistic community some preliminary findings in the area of text planning which I hope will serve to lay the foundations of a computational theory of ...

I completed my MA in the Department of Linguistics. My current research interests are in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistic analysis, and pragmatics of discourse. More specifically, I seek to ...

Stylistics is the scientific study of style that determines how readers meet with the language of, mainly literary, texts in order to explain how one understands and is affected by texts when reading ...