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| Description | Pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:2.8 |
| I work in the area of Interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, particularly pedagogical aspects of interlangauge pragmatics in EFL contexts. |
Applied Linguistics 
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
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| Description | pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:2 |
| My research is at the interface between pragmatics and other fields, mainly psycholinguistics (language of space, reference frames, manipulation) and language acquisition (CLIL) |
| Language Acquisition
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
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| Description | Prosody: Semantics and Pragmatics | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Investigating the meaning of prosody and its contribution to utterance meaning, particularly focusing on the interaction of conceptual and procedural meaning |
| Pragmatics
Prosody
Semantics
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| Description | Pragmatic Stylistics | Kwd:1 Text:1 |
| Research network exploring the application of ideas from pragmatics in the stylistic analysis of texts (of all varieties) |
| Pragmatics
Stylistics
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| Description | discourse variation | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| I work on functionally and socially conditioned variation in the use and formal encoding of discourse variables. |
| Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | English extender tags & diachronic phraseology | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Funded by the Finnish Academy, I'm studying English extender tags ("and such-like", "et cetera") in the history of English. Fixed forms, variant forms, their functions and distribution. |
| Historical Linguistics
Phraseology
Pragmatics
Semantics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | Culture specific communicative styles | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| People use languages in different ways according to specific social and linguistic norms, values, socio-cultural conventions, understanding of (im)politeness which shape their communicative styles |
| Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Discourse Analysis
Intercultural Communication
Language and Cultural Aquisition
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
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| Description | Count Nouns That Appear Without an Article | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Lacking expected morpho-syntax, this form is also pragmatically marked. Besides describing the forms use by native speakers, bare singular NPs can be tapped to help learners master English articles. |
| Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
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| Description | The Discourse Markers Why and Say | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| Diachronic examination contrasting their spoken use vs. occurrence in depicted conversations of fiction, collocation with different address forms, and speakers' sense of the words' productivity. |
| Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Description | The development of procedural meanings | Kwd:1 Text:0 |
| The re-cycling of obsolete word order patterns as markers of procedural meanings, from playful expressions like "I kid you not" to the "Says John:...."-construction. |
| Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Syntax
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