Pragmatics
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Cohesive Resources Types and Examples in detail
Cohesive Resources Cohesive resources are a number of grammatical and lexical elements of character which are designed to unify the various…
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Features of Direct and indirect speech
Direct and indirect speech Direct speech Direct speech characterized by a faithful reproduction of character expression. On one occasion, I…
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Grice’s principle of cooperation
Grice’s principle of cooperation A very general pragmatic assumption of communicative exchange is understood as the principle of cooperation , whereby a certain behavior is expected…
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Inference and its process
Inference and its process The etymological origin of the term inference, we must proceed to move to Latin. There we…
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Deictics and its different types
Deictics Deictics are very important to understand. we will elaborate the Deictics and its different types here. A deictic is a word…
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The conversational implicatures
The conversational implicatures The conversational implicature is the metamessage of the discourse, the covert information. It is what is said through…
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Cataphora and difference with anaphora with illustration
Cataphora In linguistics, it is called a cataphor or cataphoric reference to the anticipation of an idea or a sentence element that, later on,…
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Anaphora and difference with cataphora with examples
Anaphora Anaphora is a rhetorical figure or literary figure, which is used to give the written text a greater beauty or greater expressive power, and…
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The Theory of Relevance
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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