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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Grice"”.
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A classic statistical model developed towards predicting financial distress
… models are widely accepted and used. Studies by Grice & Ingram (2001); Grice & Dugan (2001) and Sudarsanam & Taffler (1995) have shown that these models require to be updated regularly with new variables and coefficients due to various factors. This study proposes to add to the body of knowledge …
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Some Constraints of Consideration on Conversation: Interactions of Politeness and Relevance With Grice's Second Maxim of Quantity
… and conversation' philosopher of language Paul Grice establishes four maxims speakers follow in conversing: maxims of quantity, quality, relation, and manner. The maxim of quantity he divides into two parts, saying that conversational participants must give enough information to each other, but …
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Assertibility and coordination: Analysing `and' and/or `or', some `some', but not so much `but', `not', `so', or `nor', nor `much'
… with formal restrictions that model some Grice-inspired maxims, can go towards describing the multiple distinct uses of the English natural language connectives `and' and `or'. H.P. Grice famously claimed that `and' and `if' could be completely reduced to the truth-functional connectives …
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What do we mean by 'preserving digital information'? Towards sound conceptual foundations for digital stewardship
… of Situation Theory [Devlin, 1995] and the Gricean theory of meaning [Grice, 1957,Grice, 1968]. The notion of an interpretive frame [Dubin et al., 2011] is adopted here to model the contingent mapping between the fundamental components involved in the representation of information and …
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FMRI studies of the relationship between language and theory of mind in adult cognition
… partner's beliefs, desires, and goals (e.g., Grice 1957, 1968, 1975; Sperber & Wilson, 1986). Many questions remain about the precise nature of the relationship between language processing and Theory of Mind (ToM), and their neural substrates. On the one hand, the two domains share an intimate …
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The Effects of Race and Socioeconomic Status on the Acceptance of Biracial Individuals
… Toward Defined Groups (AS) developed by Grice (1934), and a measure of Perceived Commonality (PC) developed by Feather (1980). The Marlowe-Crowne (1960) Social Desirability Scale (SD) was also included to assess for socially desirable response tendencies. Results of the 2 x 2 ANOVA, …
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Mind, meaning and miscommunication
… to meaning, including those of Davidson, Frege, Grice, Putnam, Searle and Tarski. I assess their strengths and weaknesses in the light of the cases of miscommunication that have some bearing upon them. In the final part of the thesis I attempt to provide a coherent account of what meaning is, and …
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Conversational Implicature in Children's Referential Communication
… of language use (Rule Knowledge). H. P. Grice has described some abstract conventional structures which serve as both a productive and interpretive framework for conversation: the Cooperative Principle (CP) and its maxims of Quality, Quantity, Relation, and Manner. That children's …
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The pragmatics of selected discourse markers in Swahili
… i.e., guided by the Cooperative Principle (Grice, 1975), infers what intention he must impute to the speaker in using the discourse marker that she used, when she used it, such that he may preserve the overall assumption of the speaker's cooperativeness. Thus, the speaker's use of a …
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Measurement of piston / piston-ring friction and oil film thickness in an internal combustion engine
… system is an extension of an investigation by Grice (1990) who developed the system on a low speed engine simulator operating at room temperature. The floating liner friction measurement system was also developed on the same - apparatus under these operating conditions. The modifications …
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Rangatahi and complex entanglements of sexuality, sexuality education and secondary school: A material-discursive exploration
… or ‘in need’ (Cooper, 2012; Green, 2011; Le Grice, 2014). To produce something different, in this work I engaged with concepts from the theoretical fields of Māori Indigenous Theories, Feminist Poststructuralisms, and New Feminist Materialisms to develop a framework for exploration. Nine …
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L'impact du bilinguisme sur la compréhension conversationnelle des adolescents atteints des troubles du spectre autistique
… les violations des maximes conversationnelles de Grice (Tâche Pragmatique I) et la capacité de ces derniers de choisir parmi plusieurs réactions sociales celle qui correspond le mieux à une déclaration sociale donnée (Tâche Pragmatique II). Nous avons également demandé à nos participants …
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First-Generation College Student Baccalaureate Attainment: Investigation of a Psychological Model of College Student Retention
… in college (Darling & Smith, 2007; Longwell-Grice et al., 2016). This study was conducted at a private, residential, research university. Data came from institutional records and a student survey. An exploratory factor analysis accounted for most of the survey item variation. Path models …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… Manowong 2011; Yamanaka 2003) which assumed a Gricean framework seeing irony as communicating the ‘opposite of what is said’ (Grice 1975, 1978). This thesis adopts instead the relevance-theoretic account of irony as echoic (Sperber and Wilson 1995; Wilson and Sperber 2012), arguing that …
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The effects of operating conditions on the hydrodynamic lubricant film thickness at the piston-ring / cylinder liner interface of a firing diesel engine
… modulated (AM) system originally developed by Grice and a new "high speed" capacitance technique based on a frequency modulated principle. The first part of this thesis is concerned with the development and implementation of a new apparatus suitable for measuring the thickness and extent of the …
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Effects on Campostoma oligolepis Digestive Morphology and Gut Microbiota Composition across a Gradient of Urbanization
<p><em>Campostoma oligolepis</em>, the Largescale Stoneroller, is a species of minnow native to northwest Georgia. This study investigated the impacts of urbanization on gut length and gut microbiota community composition in <em>C. oligolepis</em> from four small watersheds within the Etowah River …
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Can music and animation affect flow and attainment in online learning?
E-learning has found its way into various areas of our lives and, as technology has developed, the ways in which e-learning has been delivered have become more varied. Researchers and e-learning developers can become captivated by new technologies and the facilities that these technologies can …
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An experimental and theoretical study of piston ring lubrication
The work presented in this thesis is concerned with developing a greater understanding of piston ring lubrication and consists of both experimental and theoretical components. It begins with a review of piston ring and ring pack lubrication studies, describing how the understanding of the operation …
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Addressing the Summer Learning Gap Among Children with Reading Difficulties
This study explored literacy change and development in children with reading difficulties over the summer months. More specifically, a summer literacy program called S.L.A.M., offered by the Learning Disabilities Association of the Niagara Region, was examined. A multi-lens approach was used to …
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Portraits of black educators in predominantly white suburban high schools: the cost of pursuing equity for students of color
There are a litany of studies that examine Black K-12 educators and their positive influence on Black student achievement; however, few studies examine Black high school educators in predominantly White suburban schools. In response to the dearth of research on Black educators in predominantly …
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