Politeness maxims 1 Politeness maxims According to Geoffrey Leech‚ there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those formulated by Paul Grice. He lists six maxims: tact‚ generosity‚ approbation‚ modesty‚ agreement‚ and sympathy. The first and second form a pair‚ as do the third and the fourth. These maxims vary from culture to culture: what may be considered polite in one culture may be strange or downright rude in another. The Tact maxim The tact maxim states:
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Principle is a series of maxims‚ which Geoffrey Leech has proposed as a way of explaining how politeness operates in conversational exchanges. LEECH’S MAXIMS Leech defines politeness as a type of behaviour that allows the participants to engage in a social interaction in an atmosphere of relative harmony. In stating his maxims Leech uses his own terms for two kinds of illocutionary acts. He calls representatives “assertives”‚ and calls directives “impositives”. Each maxim is accompanied by
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GRICE’S MAXIMS AND GOFFMAN’S FACE Grice’s Maxims There are four maxims in conversation‚ The maxim of quantity‚ The maxim of quality‚ The maxim of relation and The maxim of manner. 1) The maxim of quantity – This is where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can and gives as much information that is needed‚ and no more. E.g. – “Hey what’s up?” “Well first and all my legs are killing me so I had to go to the doctors at 6 in the morning to get them checked out‚ then I had to run all the
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The Maxim Gun By Alexander Thompson Hiram S. Maxim‚ who was working with an engineering works in Fitchburg‚ Massachusetts‚ invented the Maxim machine-gun in 1884. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville‚ Maine on February 5‚ 1840. His first patented inventions included models of electric lamps and gas appliances‚ and curling irons. Maxim’s first idea of inventing a weapon effective for battlefield combat came from a man he met at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition. This man told
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MASTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS MASTER DISSERTATION THE ROLE OF CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS‚ IMPLICATURE AND PRESUPPOSITION IN THE CREATION OF HUMOUR: AN ANALYSIS OF WOODY ALLEN’S ANYTHING ELSE Department of English Philology I‚ UCM STUDENT: Ramiro Nieto Álvaro TUTOR: Dr. Marta Begoña Carretero Lapeyre Septiembre de 2011 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................4
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Grice’s Maxims have been criticised for being too Anglo-centric. Michael Clyne proposes revisions to the four maxims in his 1994 book Intercultural Communication at Work. Do Clyne’s revisions of this model go far enough in universally accounting for intercultural conversation? Why or why not? Grice’s General Cooperative Principle has been under continuous debate for the past three decades. It is mainly through the maxims that Grice’s paradigm has been challenged as highly ethnocentric‚ however
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INTRODUCTION]This essay discusses the four maxims of Grice’s co-operative principle and how they are broken. In the first section I describe each of the four maxims. By providing dialogues from an American sitcom ’The Big Bang Theory’; I explain how each of these maxims are broken in various ways. In the second section‚ I examine how these methods of breaking maxims can overlap one another. In the final section‚ I conclude on the role that these maxims play in conversation and how they achieve humorous
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When faced with moral issues in every facet of life‚ individuals often rely on normative theories for guidance in their decision-making process and its subsequent justification. In the case of Rayburn Unlimited‚ Al Smetana‚ the founding president‚ discovers that Craig Lindley‚ the associate vice-president and an old-time friend‚ has been using the company’s computer network extensively for web pornography. At the current juncture‚ Al is faced with the decision of how to resolve the situation with
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ensuring the success of the magazine in a relatively young‚ dynamic and exciting environment in which there are no barriers to entry and new competitors are able to enter. In this particular instance Mr. Kerton is somewhat concerned about the entry of Maxim magazine and the possible entry of Esquire magazine into the men’s lifestyle magazine market. Situational analysis Men’s health is international magazine started in America in 1988. Riding on the success of the magazine in America the magazine
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Equity Maxims 1. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands * D&C Builders v Rees – Lord Denning. A small building firm did some work on the house of a couple named Rees. The bill came to £732‚ of which the Rees had already paid £250. When the builders asked for the balance of £482‚ the Rees announced that the work was defective and they were only prepared to pay £300. As the builders were in serious financial difficulties‚ they reluctantly accepted the £300 “ in completion of the
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