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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In 2001 psychologist Richard Wiseman created LaughLab; a yearlong project to discover the funniest joke in the world. After analysing 40‚000 jokes that were rated over 1.5 million times‚ the project was finalised and the winning joke was announced. According to Wiseman and his team‚ the funniest joke in the world goes as follows: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the
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features of talk. This is due to the affair as he wants to forget about it so when Abigail constantly brings the affair up in conversation we expect him to shy away from the topic. The main expectation we have of Abigail is that she will flout Grice’s maxim of quantity as she will be highly emotional when talking to him‚ which we can assume will make her talk more if he is displaying uncooperative features of talk. Abigail uses the metaphor ‘sweated like a stallion’ when talking about her affair with
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speaker is trying to communicate implicitly. How can we explain this fact? Paul Grice gave the following answer: We grasp the implicit meaning by assuming cooperation on the part of the speaker (especially the observance of certain conversational maxims). And as speakers we rely on this assumption when we expect that our hearers will understand us. This starting point has already proven to be very fruitful for the philosophy of language and linguistic pragmatics. Nevertheless we still do not have
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Conversational Analysis I: Definition of “conversational Analysis” Treatment of conversation developed by sociologists in the early 1970s which concentrates on relations between successive “turns” on the operation of a hypothetical turn-taking system.” This system ensures (according to the hypothesis) that at any moment a specific speaker will have the floor‚ and that when their turn ends that of the next speaker will follow smoothly without (according to those proposing the hypothesis) an appreciable
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effects and has become one of the best television sitcoms throughout the world. Ⅰ. Four maxims of cooperative principle A. Quantity maxim B. Quality maxim C. Relation maxim D. Manner maxim Ⅱ. Violation of CP Maxims and Humor Production A. Violation of the quantity maxim 1. Example and analysis 2. Example and analysis 3. Example and analysis B. Violation of the quality maxim 1. Example and analysis 2. Example and analysis 3. Example and analysis
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study of meaning in interaction and make an analysis on a dialog from to the popular series House MD‚ in terms of the turn-taking mechanism‚ insertion sequences and the co-operative principles defined by Grice (the four maxims‚ Maxim of quantity‚ Maxim of quality‚ Maxim of Relation‚ Maxim of Manner). Body The dialog begins in House’s apartment that is having a conversation with Wilson‚ his best friend about his illness‚ and he continues to the hospital where they are doctors and do their routine
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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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discourse analysis Discourse Analysis A discourse is behavioral unit. It is a set of utterances which constitute a recognizable speech event e.g. a conversation‚ a joke‚ a sermon‚ an interview etc. In its historical and etymological perspective the term is used in different perspectives e.g. Verbal communication. All this fine talk. Direct / indirect speech. To chat. In order to narrow down the range of possible meanings‚ the
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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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