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Showing 1 to 20 of 251 for “"pragmatics"”.
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Pragmatics of File Migration
File migration is the movement of files from secondary storage devices, such as magnetic disks, to tertiary or mass storage devices, such as automated tape libraries. It provides a service analogous to demand paging in virtual memory systems.
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Implicit Programming and Formal Pragmatics
… we will give a corresponding formal model of pragmatics (currently called cost semantics in the Programming Languages research community) and show how “intensional” (platform-dependent) properties can be formally established for particular platforms.
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Pragmatics and Grammatical Descriptions (Japanese)
… that strictly distinguishes between grammar and pragmatics and discuss its consequences. By now it is clear that "raw" linguistic data contain many pragmatic elements, whether they are speech act properties, implicatures, beliefs and intentions of the speech participants, or what not. In …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
… resolving disputes (Frake 1979) contributes to Pragmatics as defined by Levinson (1983) and Leech (1983). This study provides a body of information that supports the new discipline as an adequate means for demonstrating that any language is an entity that is divisible into units of a higher …
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Bringing Pragmatics into the ESL Classroom
… investigated language learners' knowledge of pragmatics and how instruction can help them develop this knowledge in an environment where English is taught as a second language. Specifically, this project had two aims: (1) to observe the relationship between language proficiency and pragmatic …
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Language and behaviour : pragmatics and parole
This thesis applies linguistic analysis to one of the most difficult and under-theorised problems in criminology: recidivism on parole (Weisberg, Mukamal, & Segall, 2011, p. 3). During the parole hearing, inmates’ suitability for early release is judged according to parole board members’ intuitions …
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Pragmatics of inter-professional collaborative partnerships
The focus throughout this thesis is on the pragmatics of interprofessional collaborative partnerships in the area of work with children and families. It comprises three sections, the first of which reviews government mandates and research outcomes, outlines essentials for inter-professional …
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The pragmatics of repetition, emphasis and intensification
… utterances and forms. Within Relevance Theory pragmatics, pragmatic stylistics generally, and in some areas of linguistics proper, stylistic repetition is understudied and under-understood. The term is applied to a rag-tag muddle of phenomena that have little in common from the point of view of …
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Argumentation pragmatics, text analysis, and contrastive rhetoric
… an alternative adapted from argumentation pragmatics (Ducrot et al., 1980) and the model of discourse structure proposed by Roulet et al. (1985). Ducrot's theory rests on the observation that utterances in sequence are describable as having one of two functions--that of being an argument …
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The application of pragmatics in Human-Computer interaction
… principles from the field of natural language pragmatics to that of human-computer interaction. In pursuing this aim, the research falls broadly into three phases.</p> <p>The first of these is the exploitation and adaptation of the Gricean Cooperative Principle, its maxims and inferential rules …
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The pragmatics of the modern Greek grammatical system
This thesis is primarily concerned with the Pragmatics of the Modern Greek (MG) grammatical system. A secondary aim is the investigation of the relationship between morpho-syntax, phonology and pragmatics’ related features which form part of the grammar, in allowing a speaker’s intention to be …
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Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics (CAPs): A Validation Study
… diagnostic tool, the Clinical Assessment of Pragmatics as well as comparatively examine and analyze pragmatic language profiles of three groups of adolescents. These included students with Language Impairment (LI), High-Functioning Autism (HFA) and typically developing students. During the …
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Some Interactions of Grammar and Pragmatics in Korean
… kinds of correlations between syntactic form and pragmatics. But the fact that there are interactions between grammar and pragmatics cannot be taken as prima facie evidence for the position that pragmatics is part of grammar or that grammar is part of pragmatics. This study, rather, argues for a …
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The pragmatics of selected discourse markers in Swahili
The dissertation is a description of several discourse markers in Swahili in a pragmatic framework which assumes that speakers and hearers are rational agents whose behavior, including verbal behavior, is plan-based and goal-oriented. In this view, speech is coherent because the hearer can perceive …
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… the generative framework to study the syntax and pragmatics of word order variation in the Andean Spanish of Bolivia and Ecuador. While Standard Spanish has basic order SVO, in Andean Spanish the object frequently appears in preverbal position, resulting in alternative orders (e.g. OVS). Previous …
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The Effect of a Study Abroad on Acquiring Pragmatics
Pragmatics in Arabic needs to be studied for two main reasons: first, the large cultural difference between American and Middle Eastern society; and second, the recent surge in demand for Arabic speakers in the US. Especially in regard to refusals, what is acceptable in America is rarely acceptable …
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The pragmatics and syntax of pragmatic morphemes in Korean
This thesis has two goals, describing the uses of some selected Pragmatic Morphemes (PMs) in Korean and giving an account of their syntactic behaviors in the GPSG framework. First, according to the Cooperative Principle, I describe how the speaker uses a PM and how the hearer understands it. I …
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Pragmatics and distribution of the Japanese reflexive pronoun zibun
"This dissertation provides a hypothesis on the nature of Japanese reflexive pronoun zibun 'self' which explains the distribution of zibun without employing previously proposed syntactic conditions. It claims that zibun is a simple nominal expression with reflexive meaning and which is specified …
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The application of natural language pragmatics in human-computer interaction.
… principles from the field of natural language pragmatics to that of human-computer interaction. In pursuing this aim, the research falls broadly into three phases.The first of these is the exploitation and adaptation of the Gricean Cooperative Principle, its maxims and inferential rules to …
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Invitation Responses by Advanced Chinese Learners of English
… with implications for teaching and learning pragmatics in the EFL classroom in China and in study abroad situations.</p>
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