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    1 Types of pragmatics 1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics 1.3 Structure of the book 2 Semantics and Pragmatics 2.1 The borderline 2.2 Sentences and utterances 2.3 Language and logic 2.4 Mood 2.5 The explicit and the implicit 2.6 Presupposition 2.7 Deixis 19 19 21 23 27 29 32 39 3 History of Pragmatics 3.1 Structuralism 3.2 Logical positivism 3.3 Ordinary language philosophy 3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics 44 44 47 49 52 4 ‘Classical’ Pragmatics 4.1 Speech

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    MALCOLM It won’t be long before I reward each of you as he deserves. My thanes and kinsmen‚ I name you all earls‚ the first earls that Scotland has ever had. We have a lot to do at the dawn of this new era. We must call home all of our exiled friends who fled from the grip of Macbeth’s tyranny‚ and we must bring to justice all the evil ministers of this dead butcher and his demon-like queen‚ who‚ rumor has it‚ committed suicide. This‚ and whatever else we are called to do by God‚ we will do at the

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    Pragmatic equivalence in the English translation of a selected literary work Sara Muhammad Abdul El Mohsen Hefnawy Al-Alsun Faculty _ Ain Shams University Department of English Dr. Zeinab instructor February 23‚ 2015 I. Introduction One of the prominent obstacles that face translators mostly in literary translation is the quandary of detection the differences in utterances‚ including figurative devices such as irony

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    MINISTRY OF EDUCATION‚ YOUTH AND SPORTS CAHUL STATE UNIVERSITY “B. P. HASDEU” PHILOLOGI DEPARTMENT ENGLISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE THEME Difficulties in Translation of Publicistic Headlines and their Pragmatic Aspect CAHUL 2010 Introduction Publicistic Headline is known as the name of literature‚ scientific or musical produce. Our research on publicistic headline will study a lot of its definition. We shall notice similarity between

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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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    their attention on the demand of producing “communicatively appropriate performance” (Schmidt & Richards‚ 1980) as well as development of pragmatic competence. In fact‚ many of the learners of a target language probably do not realize that some socially and culturally inappropriate patterns may lead to misunderstandings or misinterpretations. Pragmatic failures between language learners and native speakers of a target language show up as a universal phenomenon in the process of learning another

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    presupposition to the pragmatics to describe a relation between a speaker and the appropriateness of a sentence in a context (Levinson: 177). Hence‚ presupposition can be distinguished into two categories: semantic presupposition and pragmatic presupposition. This thesis is mainly centered on the exploration of presupposition in semantics from the perspectives of features and problems of presupposition. For the sake of searching for the solutions to the problems‚ the writer also brings two pragmatic theories

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    Aristotle :(384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath‚ a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology Aristotle’s scientific method :Like his teacher Plato Aristotle’s philosophy aims at the universal . Aristotle however found the universal in particular things ‚ which he called the essence of things ‚ while Plato

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    As phrased by Paul Grice‚ who introduced it‚ it states‚ "Make your contribution such as it is required‚ at the stage at which it occurs‚ by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged."[1] Though phrased as a prescriptive command‚ the principle is intended as a description of how people normally behave in conversation. Speakers and listeners involved in conversation are generally cooperating with each other. For reference to be successful‚ it was proposed that

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    Do children apologize to each other? Apology events in young Israeli peer discourse ZOHAR KAMPF and SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA Abstract Children’s apologies are greatly under-researched. Though there is wealth of information available on the pragmatics of apologies generally‚ we know much less about whether and how children apologize. Our study explores modes of remedial work by Israeli children in peer discourse. The data were collected through ethnographic observation of Israeli preschool and

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