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La adquisición de la competencia pragmática en ELE: el caso de la evidencialidad
The Acquisition of the Pragmatic Competence in SFL: the Case of Evidentiality

Author(s): Barbara Pihler Ciglič
Subject(s): Language studies, Foreign languages learning, Higher Education
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: evidentiality; pragmatic competence; common reference levels; SFL; metapragmatic awareness;

Summary/Abstract: The study examines certain resources for expressing evidential meaning in Spanish and Slovenian and analyzes how these elements support the development of communicative competences in the Slovenian university environment. First, the study focuses on some theoretical concepts related to the evidentiality and the acquisition of the pragmatic competence (discursive, functional and organizational). The theoretical framework is followed by the analysis of the systematization of certain evidential elements in various SFL manuals (CEFR levels B1, B2 and C1), and by the analysis of the acquisition of evidence particles by Slovenian students. The preliminary results show that knowl- edge of different ways of (non-)referencing the source of information fundamentally contributes to linguistic and pragmatic mastery of both the second language and the source language and thus to effective intercultural communication.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 229-248
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Spanish