Literature and Creativity in English Semester II 2014 Unit I Dr. Magda Introduction This course provides a lively introduction to stylistic‚ sociolinguistic and multimodal analysis. It draws on work in literature and performance studies as well as English language studies. This part of the course looks at texts designed for public consumption‚ including: poetry‚ plays and novels‚ picture books‚ performance art‚ eliterature‚ and adverts. What distinguishes some of these texts as
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metaphor is derivative from some aspect of language use. To discuss his theory‚ he puts metaphor within H. P. Grice’s theory of conversation. Following Grice‚ he holds that metaphors are pragmatically based and not semantically based – its meaning depends upon the speaker’s satisfaction and its meaning accounts only at the time of utterance. Using Grice‚ Martinich identified two divisions of the elements within the total content of what a speaker signifies. These are 1) what a speaker says or what
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Thoughts on its Uses and Flaws Ferdinand de Saussure was the founding father of the division of language into two components: the signifier and the signified. The signified is pure information‚ the signifier a matter of conveying it. Herbert Paul Grice developed the Cooperative Principle‚ which can be divided into four Gricean maxims. These maxims constitute a way of understanding the relationship between the signifier and the signified‚ or‚ in other words‚ the link between utterances and how
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regardless of our social background‚ or our level of education. There are several factors that influence how people use language. Gender has been identified as a major influence. The study of language led to a set of conventions being put forward by Paul Grice known as Grice’s Maxim’s. These facilitate effective conversation. These maxims are the maxim of quality‚ where you say just what is needed to respond. The maxim of relevance ensures that what is said is relevant within the content of the conversation
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violate and infringe Grice’s four maxims in order to create humour. The shows I will be using are Little Britain‚ Bottom and Blackadder. Terminology. Herbert Paul Grice is considered one of the founders of the modern study of pragmatics‚ which deals with expressed meaning and implied meaning‚ in other words what is said and what is meant. Grice claimed that there are two kinds of implicature‚ in other words the part of an utterance that is meant but not strictly said out loud: conventional implicature
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Cited: Grice. H. P. Logic and Conversation. In Cole‚ P. & Morgan‚ J. L. (eds) Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts. New York: Academic Press. 1975. The Cooperative Principle of Pragmatics: An Analysis of the Verbal Humor in the Sitcom Home with Kids. (2014. 6.20)
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 398 742 FL 024 044 AUTHOR TITLE Bouton‚ Lawrence F. Can NNS Skill in Interpreting Implicature in American English Be Improved through Explicit Instruction?--A Pilot Study. PUB DATE NOTE 94 PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS IDENTIFIERS 23p.; In: Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph Series‚ Volume 5‚ p89-109‚ 1994; see FL 014 038. Reports Research/Technical (143) MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. College Students; Comparative Analysis; *English (Second
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN GUY RITCHIE’S SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) [pic] By: Ratih Santi Mianawati 08211141027 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY 2011 1. Title of Research : A Pragmatic Analysis of Conversational Implicature used by the Main Characters in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009) Personal identity :
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the reference to Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its underlying conversational strategies is indispensable in the pragmatic analysis and interpretation or irony in literature‚ particularly the verbal behavior of characters. Works Referenced: Grice‚ P. H. (1975). Logic and Conversation. In: P. Cole and J. Morgan (eds.). Syntax and Semantics vol. 3: Speech Acts. pp.41~58. New York: Academic Press "irony‚ n." OED Online. Oxford University Press‚ March 2017. Web. 12 April 2017. Jafari‚ J. (2013)
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Pragmatics is the study of meaning recognition expressed either in oral or in written forms‚ which deals with the use of social context and the ways people produce and comprehend meanings through language (Mey‚ 2011). Language as a tool to express or convey meaning is widely used in communication. Conversely‚ communication‚ as it uses language‚ functions for many different purposes and one of which is persuasion. Persuasion is an act of convincing
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