Affiliation:
1. Tomsk State University
Abstract
Abstract
This article examines the pragmatic comprehensibility of indirect reporting. The research problem is to determine
how Russian EFL learners (linguists and non-linguists) are able to turn original utterances expressing the intentions of native
speakers of American English in direct speech into indirect reports to a third party. Two major issues are analyzed: adequacy of
semantic content and preservation of pragmatic enrichment. The study was carried out employing the framework of Kecskes’
Socio-Cognitive Approach (2008, 2010, 2014, 2017). Twelve stimulus-utterances belonging to three
communicative types (statements, questions, commands/requests) were video-recorded. Qualitative and quantitative
analyses revealed that the participants met with some difficulties preserving the speaker’s intention while interpreting attached
pragmatic enrichment and perlocutionary effect. Both cohorts of Russian EFL learners were able to preserve the semantic content
relatively efficiently, but encountered substantial difficulties inferring a complex pragmatic content.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Behavioral Neuroscience,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,General Computer Science
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