Pragmatics Exercises (Source: Fromkin & Rodman’s 1998 edition of An Introduction to Language (6th ed.)) Task I: The following sentences make certain presuppositions. What are they? (The first one has been done for you!) 1. The police ordered the minors to stop drinking. Presupposition: The minors were drinking. 2. Please take me out to the ball game again. Presupposition: 3. Valerie regretted not receiving a new T-bird for Labor Day. Presupposition: 4. That her pet turtle ran away made Emily very
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Semantics vs. pragmatics Introduction The distinction between semantics and pragmatics has received a lot of bad press in recent years. It has been claimed to be faulty‚ confused‚ or even nonexistent. However‚ these claims are based on is conceptions of what the distinction is and of what it takes to show there to be something wrong with it. As I see it‚ the semantic-pragmatic distinction fundamentally concerns two types of
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Introduction Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory‚ conversational implicature‚ talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy‚ sociology‚ linguistics and anthropology. Unlike semantics‚ which examines meaning that is conventional or "coded" in a given language‚ pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic
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easier and more effective‚ giving us a means to pass more information in less time. Nevertheless‚ there are certain situations making an interpretation difficult or even impossible‚ mostly when we only get chunks of information and therefore lack context. If‚ for example‚ a person tells a story and forgets to give the essential information a deictic term refers to‚ we will grow aware of the weakness the deictic system features. Or if the fax machine just receives the second page of a letter‚ beginning
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used to violate conversational implicatures which Trump created consciously. I also analysed all the types of implicatures detected in these excerpts. Besides that‚ other pragmatic strategies used to violate the maxims were analysed –tautology and politeness strategies. The importance of tautology cannot be denied in the pragmatic analysis of spoken discourse. Despite it being counted as a major error‚ speakers commonly use tautology in everyday life. Trump uses this powerful device to emphasize a
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The Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication between China and Western Countries Student Number:26031 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of the LSI Pre-Sessional course Submitted on 26th August 2014 Teacher’s name:Jackie Parr Abstract Pragmatic failure means the inability to understand what is meant by what is said. It means a breakdown of intercultural communication
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CANTHO UNIVERSITY THE FINAL EXAMINATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SUBJECT: PRAGMATICS & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ***** ***** Student’s name: Trần Thị Kiều My Code: 7106783 |Score | | | |
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Materia Lingüística Paper Pragmatic Analysis of Seinfeld “The Contest” Alumno: Juan Wickenhagen Profesora: Karen De Francesco CAFI 2012 Index Abstract……………………………………………………2 Introduction………………………………………………..3 Corpus……………………………………………………..4 Conclusion……………………………………………….16 Bibliography……………………………………………...17 Annex: Seinfeld “The Contest” : Full Synopsis………………..18 Abstract This paper focuses on the pragmatic analysis of an episode of the American sitcom “Seinfeld” called
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TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND LAW‚ DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF EFL STUDENTS: THE CASE OF ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL IN ADAMA By KORIE SHANKULIE Advisor: HAILELEUL ZELEKE (PHD) JUNE 2012 INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE OF EFL STUDENTS: THE CASE OF St. JOSEPH SCHOOL IN ADAMA By Korie Shankulie A Thesis Submitted to School of Humanities
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OF GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY ‚� Studies of negative pragmatic transfer in interlanguage pragmatics LIU Shao- zh on g ‚ LI AO Feng - r on g (Foreign Languages College ‚ Guangxi Normal University ‚ Guilin 541004‚ China ) Abstract : Negative pragmatic transfer (NPT ) is nothing but a difference of saying things between non2native speakers and native speakers . It occupies an important position in inter 2 ‚� ‚� language pragmatics whose mission is to scrutinize how non 2native speakers do
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