Charles Bryan D. Beloy

Pragmatic Emphasis as A Scaffolding Tool: A Relevance Theoretic Analysis of Instructional Communication

This study investigates the use of micro-level pragmatic emphasis strategies of teachers as online cognitive scaffolding devices to negotiate working memory limitations and to mark the instructional salience of dense lectures. Based on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory, it analyzes a corpus of spontaneous discourse...