Month: October 2019
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The Theory of Relevance (Sperber and Wilson)
The Theory of Relevance (Sperber and Wilson) The theory of relevance is based on the dimensioning to one of Grice’s…
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Grice’s conversational maxims
Grice’s conversational maxims The British philosopher Herbert Paul Grice (1913-1988) helped give the language a pragmatic approach and proposed some…
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Examples of Speech acts/direct/indirect/classification
Speech acts Speech acts are statements that constitute actions. They correspond to the language in use, to the language in…
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Theory of speech acts
Theory of speech acts The theory of speech acts is one of the first theories proposed by pragmatics, through which…
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Pragmatic communication models
Pragmatics Pragmatics arises within the language, in Oxford. The starting point of the Pragmatics were two lectures given at the Harvard…
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Deixis examples/definition/types/Characteristics
Deixis Deixis , which can also be indicated as deíxis , is a term that comes from the Greek language and is used…
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What is an idiomatic expression with Applications and examples
Definition of Idiomatic The idiomatic term refers to everything that is characteristic of a particular language. Idioms, phrases, idioms . In this article we…
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Metaphor Concept types making examples in detail
Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a sentence refers to one thing by mentioning another. In metaphors, there is…
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Semantic relations with examples in English with detail
Semantic relationships Words are not expressed in isolation, in other words, they establish a relationship with each other to enrich the…
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Semantics
Semantic field characteristics types and examples
Semantic field A semantic field consists of a group of words that have the same meaning and that are part of a…
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