Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article investigates from an acquisitional approach the development of pragmatic competence by novice learners of second language (L2) ...

The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 7, No. 2/3, SPECIAL ISSUE: COGNITION AND DREAM RESEARCH (Spring and Summer, 1986), pp. 299-331 (33 pages) On the basis of theoretical and anecdotal literature, ...

At Democracy Arsenal, Shadi Hamid makes the reasonable (though, to me, not entirely persuasive) point that foreign policy viewpoints are not conducive to "left-right" labeling because, for many key ...