Sökning: "Conversational maxims"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden Conversational maxims.

1. 1. Public Communication in a Pandemic : Language in COVID‐19 public health advertising

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Petra Rindby; [2023]
   Nyckelord :COVID-19; pragmatics; speech act theory; cooperative principle; implicature; Gricean maxims; advertising; PSA; public information; COVID-19; pragmatik; talakter; samarbetsprincipen; kommunikation; reklam; samhällsinformation;

   Sammanfattning : This linguistic study in the field of pragmatics looked at the language used by public health authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to inform citizens about COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021. It made a qualitative analysis of advertisements that were posted on Instagram by the Department of Health and Aged Care, the National Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in relation to COVID-19 during this time frame. LÄS MER

3. 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/Engelska

   Författare :Alva Thyr; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Grice’s maxims; conversational implicature; Grice s theory; reading between the lines; teaching reading; English teaching; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : 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

4. 3. Gricean Maxims and ASD Individuals on TV : A pragmatic analysis of individuals with ASD and their sensitivity to Gricean Maxims

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

   Författare :Alice Ann Mikha; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Autism; ASD; Atypical; the Gricean Cooperative Principle; maxims; flouting; pragmatics; autistic disorder; language understanding; neuropsychiatric disabilities; education;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to examine the way the flouting of the Gricean maxims is used to portray a fictional character with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study analyzes a character named Sam Gardner from the television series Atypical. LÄS MER

5. 4. Breaking maxims in a crime drama : A study on non-observances of maxims in crime drama Blindspot

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Frida Vik; [2021]
   Nyckelord :conversational maxims; H.P. Grice; implicature; flouting; co-operative principle;

   Sammanfattning : The conversational maxims are guidelines to how a conversation should be conducted, but sometimes these maxims can be broken for different reasons. The aim of this thesis is to identify breakings of the conversational maxims in the crime drama Blindspot and to study which maxims are broken, for what purpose the maxims are broken and if there are any changes to the number of maxims broken between different seasons of the series. LÄS MER

7. 5. Understanding Robots : The Effects of Conversational Strategies on the Understandability of Robot-Robot Interactions from a Human Standpoint

   Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Författare :Hung Chiao Chen; Saskia Weck; [2020]
   Nyckelord :human-robot interaction; understandability; conversational strategy; Grice’s maxims of informativeness; människa-robot kommunikation; förståelse; konversationsstrategi; Grices princip för informativitet;

   Sammanfattning : As the technology develops and robots are integrating into more and more facets of our lives, the futureof human-robot interaction may take form in all kinds of arrangements and configurations. In this study, we examined the understandability of di erent conversational strategies in robot-robot communication from a human-bystander standpoint. LÄS MER