Sökning: "grice"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 uppsatser innehållade ordet grice.
1. Greens talarbetydelse : En analys av dess omfång
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiSammanfattning : In 1957, H.P Grice published his reflexive model of meaning. Here, the production of meaning is described as the intentional co-operation between conversational parties to mutually interpret and communicate in the manner they believe will lead to mutual understanding. LÄS MER
2. Conversational Implicature for Language Teachers: Reading between the lines in John Marsden's Tomorrow, when the war began
L3-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska; Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate how John Marsden’s Tomorrow, when the war began (1993) could be used for reading-between-the-lines practice in the English language classroom. It answers questions relating to how reading between the lines can be understood in relation to Grice’s cooperative principle, the effects of implicature in the text and how teachers can use this information to facilitate reading between-the-lines practice. LÄS MER
3. Shakespeare's Language : Styles and meanings in King Lear relating to power
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This is a linguistic study that will apply theories as a way of understanding the contexts of aspects of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, as they relate to the possession, and exercise of power. It focuses on targeting and exploring the language of the play and how it impacts characters’ behaviour to gain or sustain power. LÄS MER
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Irony
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : In this paper, I explore how Douglas Adams’ comedic 1979 science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be used to improve English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ understanding of irony. Specifically, the study is based on criteria for the English 5 course in Swedish upper secondary school and is performed using a combined theoretical framework of Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson’s principle of relevance and Paul Grice’s maxims of conversation. LÄS MER
5. Teaching Interpretation Through the Epistolary Novel: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Teach Literary Interpretation in the Swedish Upper Secondary EFL Classroom
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : This essay examines how Swedish English as foreign language (EFL) students in the English 7 course can be taught textual interpretation skills through working with fiction in the classroom, using Bram Stoker’s 1897 epistolary novel Dracula as an example novel. A qualitative text analysis of Stoker’s novel was conducted, using Grice’s maxims of conversation and the concept of focalization, to determine the extent to which Dracula is suitable teaching material for the development of students’ interpretation skills. LÄS MER
