Do you hear it? It becomes louder… Are you deaf? Or you’re not paying attention… Do you see it? It’s coming; well actually it is there… Are you blind? Or you’re not paying attention… Do you feel it? It’s actually on our skin… Are you numb? Or you’re not paying attention… Do you smell that? There’s a blood‚ I hunger for that. I know you too… It was on 1960s‚ when the Philippines was one of the elite countries who was among the so-called “tiger economies”. This was the time when our
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Theme: “Your Choice‚ My Future: Selecting Responsible Leaders for a Better Nation” Two significant phrases stand out in my speech which I am so much privileged to deliver. One phrase involves you‚ leaders “Your choice” and the other concerning each young one‚ “My Future”. Such phrases resonate critical concerns for you and I “for a better nation”‚ an earnest prayer of all the people. I’m so glad for this opportunity to highlight about the challenges leaders must consider in their choices. On the
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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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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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from what is said” (Davis‚ 2005:1). Implicature can be part of a sentence meaning‚ or can be dependent on conversational context‚ and it can be conventional or unconventional (Ibid). Grice (1975) differentiates between two main types of implicatures which are Conventional Implicature and Conversational Implicature which is going to be the focus of this paper. Conventional Conversational Implicature 2 implicature is an implicature that is determined by the conventional meaning of the words
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An alphabet of conversational features Conversations exhibit a very wide range of styles‚ nuances and linguistic strategies. If you approach analysis with a checklist of ’main features’‚ you need to be careful to identify which ones are most appropriate to the conversation you are investigating. It is an interesting linguistic fact that alphabetical ordering confers neither more nor less importance on each item. Remember that it is the concept behind the terminology that matters. If‚ for
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CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE INTRODUCTION During the time doing this assignment‚ I accidentally brought back a memory when I was a student. My roommate was a very charming girl‚ who made many boys’ hearts beat. One day‚ a boy came to see her and said‚ “Would you like to go to the cinema with me tonight?” She replied‚ “Well‚ that’s a good idea. But I’ve got some folks coming over tonight.” He insisted on asking her‚ “So you are still able to go with me‚ right? Please‚ there’s a very good
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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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Oratorical Leaders and the Magic of Stereotypes Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in fighting injustice and oppression with the use of nonviolence. I choose this great leader and speaker because he understood the battle was against malevolent forces and not against those succumbing to those forces. In Dr. King’s (1957) “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” commentary he states‚ “It is evil we are seeking to defeat‚ not the persons victimized by evil” (p. 120). Dr. King’s leadership
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Conversational Ball Games In the following reading‚ Nancy Masterson Sakamoto explains the difference between Japanese and American conversational styles. Born in the United States‚ Sakamoto has lived and taught English in Japan. She is currently professor of American Studies at Shitennoji Gakuen University‚ Hawaii Institute. The following selection is an excerpt from her textbook‚ Polite Fictions(1982). After I was married and had lived in Japan for a while‚ my Japanese gradually
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