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    "So will such that the maxim of your will could become a universal law for all men." Kant is saying your actions‚ based on good will‚ can apply to all; so that good moral judgments made can become universal for everyone. Kant believed a person’s motive‚ his intentions of an action are what decides if the action is morally right or wrong—not the end result of that action or decision. Kant’s categorical imperative approach says a person has the moral duty to do what is right‚ because it is

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    of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite‚ typically for humorous or emphatic effect” (OED Online). Seeing as this is clearly a violation of Quality‚ one of Grice’s maxims‚ it can be presumed that in most cases of irony speakers tend to violate one or some of Grice’s four maxims underneath the Cooperative Principle: Quantity‚ Quality‚ Manner‚ and Relation. In doing so‚ whether intentionally‚ unconsciously‚ or unpretentiously‚ the speaker creates triggers for particular

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    Spoken language controlled assessment How do TV chefs adapt and change their language to suit their audience and purpose? There are as many different styles and variations of spoken language as there are people on Earth as language is an abundant ocean of creativity that will never dry up. The inventions of modern day technology such as the TV have meant that English spoken language is as varied now as it has ever been; you only have to flick through the TV channels to discover the differences

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    and here within lies the harmony of absolute knowledge. In a way I believe Herekleitos is seeking wisdom by defining mans belief in religion and themselves. As so stated in his final verse “I inquired of myself”. One excerpt from the maxim stating‚ “ War is father of all and king of all; and some he made gods and some men‚ some slaves and some free.”‚ shows a strong belief in warfare and accurately depicts the Mycenaean culture of the warrior class. This culture took great pride in

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    Frangky Silitonga S.Pd‚ M.Si PUTERA BATAM UNIVERSITY 2014 ABSTRACT This paper aimed to elaborate the implied meaning in the utterances of the speakers in a daily conversation and disclose the effect of using Conversational Implicature and its maxims. Something very important here was the context of the speech was delivered‚ and paid attention to the background knowledge of people whom involved in it. To analysis meaning implied in a conversation is the important thing by which describing and

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    Implicature is a theoretical construct which was first introduced by Grice in the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1967 and was later published in 1975 under the title Logic and Conversation. Grice’s basic idea was to clarify the difference between what is expressed literally in a sentence and what is merely suggested or hinted at by the utterance of the same string of words. To distinguish the latter from the former‚ Grice (1975) uses the neologisms implicate and implicature‚ while he refers

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    Sven Jansson Applied Linguistics ENGB1 30/5 2011 Pragmatics in Comedy I. Introduction. Aim. The aim of this paper is to see how characters in various shows flout‚ 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

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    conversational implicature which provides some explicit account of how it is possible to mean more than what is literally expressed by the conventional sense of the linguistic expressions uttered. In this theory‚ the “Cooperative Principle” and associated “Maxims” play a central role. Using this theory‚ we can infer the speaker’s real intention‚ appreciate figure of speech in literary work‚ and improve our communicative competence. DEVELOPMENT 1. Implicature H. P. Grice (1913–1988) was the first

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    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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    In this Assignment‚ I will analyse two chapters‚ of the Charles Dickens novel‚ ‘Hard times’. Hard Times will be stylistically analysed for speech/ thought presentation‚ point of view‚ Parallelism and Gricean implicature. The opening chapter introduces the first character within the novel‚ Mr Gradgrind the speaker in the extract and the patron of the school. The novels opening lines are spoken by Mr Gradgrind‚ ‘Now what I want is Facts.’ ‘Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.’ The word ‘Fact’

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