Search results for "Grice"
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Face and politeness in the dialogues of mother and daughter of the comedy series Absolutely Fabulous
1999
On Grice's circle
2006
The interdependence of repetition and relevance in university lectures
2012
Abstract The world of professional communication includes so many innovative practices that a 25-century-old typology on repetition like Aristotle's or even a 40-year-old theory on relevance like Grice's might seem obsolete or hardly appealing for today's lecturers. This research aims to examine and illustrate the interdependence between relevance and repetition in current lecturing by firstly reviewing the main communicative strategies used to indicate relevance in this genre, highlighting the essential role of repetition when understanding and processing relevant information. After providing an account of the most frequent repetition mechanisms lecturers currently employ, a corpus of busi…
Beyond Understanding : How Proverbs Violate Grice’s Cooperative Principle
2014
Tautology as presumptive meaning
2008
Ever since the seminal work of Paul Grice, tautologies such as Business is business have been discussed from a number of angles. While most approaches assume that tautological utterances have to do with the operation of conversational maxims, an integrated analysis is still lacking. This paper makes an attempt at analysing tautologies within the framework of Levinson (2000), who proposes a distinction between three pragmatic levels, namely Indexical Pragmatics, Gricean Pragmatics 1, and Gricean Pragmatics 2. It is shown that observations of Ward and Hirschberg (1991) on the exclusion of alternatives, the claim of Autenrieth (1997) that the second NP in nominal equatives is predicative, and …
"Ink and incapability" : verbal humour in the TV-sitcom Blackadder : a pragmatic and rhetorical analysis
2005
"Life is short, talk fast!" : verbal humour in Gilmore Girls
2016
Gilmoren tytöt on amerikkalainen televisiosarja, joka seuraa 32-vuotiaan äidin ja 16-vuotiaan tyttären elämää fiktiivisessä Stars Hollow’n pikkukaupungissa Connecticutissa seitsemän vuoden ajan. Tämän kandidaatintutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten Gilmoren tyttöjen verbaalinen huumori rakentuu. Gilmoren tytöt tunnetaan vahvojen naishahmojensa ja feministisyytensä lisäksi myös eläväisestä, terävästä dialogistaan. Aineistoni keskittyy sarjan neljään ensimmäiseen tuotantokauteen, joita yleisesti pidetään dialogiltaan ja huumoriltaan raikkaimpina. Kultakin kaudelta valittiin vapaasti aineistoon yksi jakso. Gilmoren tyttöjen huumoria käsitellään tutkielmassa populaarikulttuuriviittauste…
What Can Modularity of Mind Tell Us about the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate?
2010
In this paper I make connections between two domains of information, research on the semantics/pragmatics debate and on modularity of mind, in the hope that establishing connections and parallel structure may be fruitful in deepening knowledge of the interface between semantics and pragmatics. In particular I want to inquire if modularity of mind can help us move towards the resolution of important theoretical problems like Grice's circle, the cancellability of explicatures/implicatures, the analogy between perceptual enrichments and explicatures due to free enrichments, the routing problem for explicatures (do they strictly take input from implicatures?), and satisficing strategies in prag…
Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy. part 1: From theory to practice.
2018
This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area.The book presents perspectives which, generally, make most of the Gricean idea of the centrality of a speaker's intention in attribution of meaning of utterances, whether one is interested in the level of sentence-like units or chunks od discourse. Papers by: K. Allan, B. Butler, D. Atlas, A. Capone, M: Carapezza, V. Cuccio, M. Devitt, D. Delfitto, G. Forbes, A. Giorgi, N. Norrick, N. Salmon, G. Sent, A. Voltolini, R. Warner,