Prof Marjana Vaneva, PhD publishes an indexed paper with SFL Alumni

UACS professor, Prof Dr Marjana Vaneva – Dean of the School of Foreign Languages – and the SFL UACS alumni, Marija Ivanovska, MA in English language teaching, have published a Linguistics paper, titled ‘Pragmatics of English Speech Acts: Compliments Used by Macedonian Learners’. The coauthored paper has appeared online in the International Journal of English Linguistics, published by the Canadian Centre of Science and Education.

International Journal of English Linguistics (IJEL) is indexed with Thomson Reuters Web of Science. It is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal, which focuses on the following topics: English language, theoretical English linguistics, applied English linguistics, language teaching and learning, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, computational linguistics, discourse analysis etc. It provides an academic platform for professionals and researchers to contribute innovative work in the field. IJEL carries original and full-length articles that reflect the latest research and developments in both theoretical and practical aspects of English Linguistics.

The paper investigates how the speech act of complimenting is understood and used by learners of English in Macedonia.