Refusals in the Production of Serbian Esp Learners

Abstract

Abstract. Pragmatics plays a very important role in the process of communication, and the speech act of refusal is performed on a daily basis and in a variety

Od slovnične do pragmatične kompetence: glagolski čas in aspekt kot sredstvi za izražanje vljudnosti v angleščini za potrebe turizma

“…Blum- Kulka's (1982) claim that language learners often fail to realize their communicative acts in terms of social appropriateness and pragmatic effectiveness generated interest in the strategies employed by EFL/ESL learners. Throughout the growing body of research, the inadequate pragmatic knowledge of the EFL/ESL learners, including ESP learners (Sirikhan & Prapphal 2011;Halupka-Rešetar & Knežević 2016;Taghizadeh 2017;Kreishan 2018), compared to the native speakers' linguistic performance, was reported.…”

“…Research has shown that learners lacked the ability to realize successful speech acts in different social contexts (Halupka-Rešetar & Knežević 2016) and pragmatic failures were noted in both pragmalinguistics and sociolinguistics (Sirikhan & Prapphal 2011). Overall, the studies supported Bardovi-Harlig and Dörnyei's (1998: 234) claim that "grammat ical development does not guarantee a corresponding level of pragmatic development".…”