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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Gricean Pragmatics"”.
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A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Criteria-Based Content Analysis for Judging the Credibility of Public Appeals for Missing Persons
… analytic methodology, utilising concepts from Gricean Pragmatics and Interactional Sociolinguistics. The results indicate that both sets of criteria are not suitable for use on this type of data. In particular, the efficacy of many credibility-related content characteristics is reduced when …
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Rethinking Gricean and post-Gricean categories of meaning: Evidence from Sībawayhian and post-Sībawayhian pragmatics in the Arabic tradition
… texts of Sībawayhian and post-Sībawayhian pragmatics in the Arabic tradition, with a focus on how the concepts of metapragmatic conventions (conventions<sub>mp</sub>) and integrative context (context<sub>i</sub>) figure in their pragmatics-centric, intuition-driven framework of …
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
… is a hallmark of human communication. As per the Gricean-inspired perspective of communication, the gap between what is said and what is implicated is bridged using a set of conversational maxims that can be exploited to trigger conversational implicatures. This thesis investigates the nature of …