students in their argumentative writing. Participants ’ level was categorized as high‚ intermediate‚ and low. In this study cohesion is evaluated following Halliday and Hasan ’s (1976) cohesion theory whereas coherence is evaluated following Grice ’s maxims. Oshima and Hogue ’s (2006) criteria of achieving coherence were also used in the analysis. The analysis of cohesion shows that the three groups tend to use lexical devices. In fact‚ intermediate and low level students overused reiteration as a
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Grice advanced the notions of cooperative principle and implicature together with Gricean maxims of conversation to illustrate how people are able to communicate with each other given that their utterances could be comprehended in many possible ways. The underlying assumption of Grice’s cooperative principle is that people tend to be cooperative in most conversational exchanges in order to construct meaningful conversation. The cooperative principle‚ as stated in Grice’s “Logic and Conversation”
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"In Russia an honest man is rather like the chimney-sweep with whom nurses frighten children." "Čast se ne može oduzeti‚ ona se može samo izgubiti." Čehov "Kad nema pravog života‚ čovek živi od fatamorgane." Čehov "I za tisuću godina čovjek će isto ovako uzdisati: “Ah‚ teško je živjeti” – i u isti mah ovako isto kao i sada‚ bojat će se i neće htjeti da umre." "Drugi dio života kod pametnog čoveka sastoji se u oslobađanju od ludosti i predrasuda i pogrešnih mišljenja koje je stekao tokom prvog
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social-realism‚ Maxim Gorky wrote his first published play ’The Lower Depths’ in which was rewarded with colossal success by the Moscow Art Theatre. The public didn’t only get drawn to the play as a political play of misfortune and freedom but it was a way of opening the eyes of the theatre and society to show that it was capable of presenting illustration of a social conscience. This essay will demonstrate the fundamental basis of theatrical naturalism by critically analysing The Lower depths‚ By Maxim Gorkii
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International phonetics Alphabet List of symbols representatives of sound used in English Language : i) Utterance ii) Sound iii) Symbols iv) Syllable v) Word(s)/group of Words vi)Clauses/Phrases vii)Sentences viii)Paragraph ix) Meaning x) Interpretation xi) Theorizing. i) ‚ ii) ‚ iii) Phonology iv)‚ v) Morphology vi)‚vii) Syntax viii) Forms ix)‚ x) Interpretation xi) Hermeneutics Phoneme: A phoneme is the smallest or minimal contrastive unit in the sound system
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display concepts of conflict and politeness theory‚ which can be pointed out in a few specific scenes. During the movie‚ I found that these concepts that were taught in class helped me better understand and relate to certain clips of the movie. Throughout the rest of the paper‚ I will be going into a bit more detail about exactly what these concepts are and mean‚ following that I will be giving examples from the movie that demonstrate the concepts of conflict and politeness theory. The movie My Big
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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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SOCIOLINGUISTICS Gender‚ Politeness and Stereotypes a. Woman’s Language and Confidence Some dialectologist argued that women were using language which reinforced their sub-ordinate status. Social dialect research focused on differences between women’s and men’s speech. Robin Lakoff identified a number of linguistic features used more often by women. He suggested that women’s speech was characterized by linguistics features like: o Lexical hedges or fillers (e.g. you know‚ sort of
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HCMC University of Pedagogy – English department A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF INVITATION’S REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE Student: Dang Thi To Nhu Class: 4A07 Instructor: Ph.D Nguyen Ngoc Vu December 2010 Invitation‟s refusal strategies 1 Introduction Human communication is a combination of cooperation and understanding. Success in communication depends greatly on the ability to recognize speakers‟ communicative intentions and pragmatic meaning of their utterances
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Table of contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Politeness a theoretical approach 3 3. the concept of limao 4 4. Request strategies 4 4.1. Request strategies in Chinese 4 4.2. Request strategies in English 5 5. Forms of address 6 5.1. Forms of address in Chinese 6 5.2. Forms of address in English 7 6. Chinese: Politeness across social groups 8 7. Conclusion 9 References 11 1. Introduction In many parts of this world‚ former existing borders are removed and people
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