Dr.Badriya Al Mamari

semantics elt language efl applied linguistics linguistics discourse discourse analysis approaches & methods in elt languages analysis language registers intonation stress communicative competence linguistic referring expressions speech acts cohesión context context and culture tesol universal discourse sense reference types of sentences literal meaning non-literal meaning interpersonal meaning dictionaries meaning postulates word properties word meaning logic predicate predicators sense reference proposition utterance sentence basics politeness pragmatics cooperative principles conversation persuasion and poetics rhetoric languages in the contemporary world prescribing & describing language future present past challenges