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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Sperber and Wilson"”.
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Discourse Markers of clarification and causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian dialects: a socio-pragmatic perspective
… meaning of an utterance or to its syntactic and semantic make-up. Contrary to those linguists who found the study of DMs marginal, other researchers have been interested in the study of these expressions. Using a Relevance Theoretic framework (Sperber and Wilson, 1986, 1995; Blakemore, 1987), …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… to which non-native speakers of English understand potentially ironic utterances in a similar way to native speakers. Barbe (1995: 4) sees irony as one of ‘the final obstacles before achieving near native-speaker fluency.’ This assumption is supported by the findings of earlier studies (Bouton …
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
This research investigates misunderstanding between Arabs and native speakers of English in verbal interaction. It examines the factors that might influence understanding and interpretations of politeness in interactants' linguistic utterances at the cultural and contextual levels. Its main …
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Negotiating a Punctuated Landscape: A Study of Asyndetic Translation Based on Relevance Theory
… English in literary texts. To do so, it adopts Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory, noting how this theory not only accounts for poetic effects but also provides a principle that can guide translators as they seek to replicate these effects. This thesis then uses relevance theory to analyze …