Sökning: "Gricean maxims"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden Gricean maxims.
1. Public Communication in a Pandemic : Language in COVID‐19 public health advertising
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : 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
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. 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/LärarutbildningenSammanfattning : 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
4. MASTER SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUES Linguistic Representation in the Movie Script Erin Brockovich
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Master suppression techniques (MSTs) were defined by Ås in the 1970s (Ås, 1992). There are seven MSTs; making invisible, ridiculing, withholding information, double binding, heap blame or shame, force or threat of force and objectification. LÄS MER
5. Gricean Maxims in the TV Series The Office : An analysis of the character Dwight regarding failure to observe Gricean maxims
L2-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to analyze the rule breaking of Gricean conversational Maxims and how it is used in the TV series The Office. The character Dwight has been in focus, and the main goal of this study is to find out if and how he violates the Gricean Maxims in conversations. LÄS MER