Towards a pragmatics of non-fictional narrative truth: Gricean and relevance-theoretic perspectives
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 From a linguistic perspective, ‘truth’ is undoubtedly a pragmatic notion, as the truth of an utterance is not determined solely by its linguistic meaning, but is dependent upon the context in which it is uttered.
Berghoff, Robyn, Huddlestone, Kate
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Embedding social innovation and social impact across the disciplines: identifying "Changemaker" attributes [PDF]
, 2015 Purpose—This paper proposes an attributes framework for embedding “Changemaker”—a university initiative for promoting social innovation and social impact—across the disciplines at the University of Northampton.
Alden Rivers, Bethany +2 more
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A Pragmatic Approach to Rhetorical Technique of "Exaggeration" Based on Grice’s "Cooperative Principle" [PDF]
Literary ArtsExaggeration is among the most prominent rhetorical techniques that has long been of significant interest to linguists and scholars, specifically under the discipline of Badi (rhetorical embellishment).
Hassan Rahmani +4 more
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The growth of plant embryos in vitro. Preliminary experiments on the role of accessory substances [PDF]
, 1937 The aseptic culture of plant embryos isolated from the seed dates back to the work of Brown and Morris,(1) Hannig(2) and Dietrich.(3) More recent contributions to our knowledge concerning the culture in vitro of excised embryos have been made by Tukey,(4)
Axtman, Grice, Bonner, James
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Considering the Appropriateness of the Verses of the Holy Quran Based on the Principle of Cooperation of Grice [PDF]
آموزههای قرآنی, 2012 Enemies have raised the issue of the disproportion and lack of coherence between the verses of the Quran from the time of the Prophet (PBUH). In the recent times, mercenary orientalists have also tried, in their opinion, to disrupt the rhetoric of the ...
Gholam Abbas Saeedi
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Studia Humana, 2016 In the first part of this paper I consider the Gricean account of communication, as structured by the Cooperative Principle and the four maxims. Several authors, including Jean Goodwin [10], Fred Kauffeld [17], Michael Gilbert [7], Ernie Lepore and ...
Moldovan Andrei
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Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then” [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we investigate the influence of reason-relation readings of indicative conditionals and ‘and’/‘but’/‘therefore’ sentences on various cognitive assessments. According to the Frege-Grice tradition, a dissociation is expected.
Kellen, David +3 more
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Zagłada Żydów, 2007 This article discusses the history of the annihilation of sztetl Gritze, a Polish-Jewish town in Central Poland. In the first part of the article, the author describes the tragedy of the Jewish inhabitants of this small town: the creation and the ...
Karolina Panz
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Behavioral estimates of interhemispheric transmission time and the signal detection method: A reappraisal [PDF]
, 1994 On the basis of a review of the literature, Bashore (1981) concluded that only simple reaction time experiments with manual responses yielded consistent behavioral estimates of interhemispheric transmission time.
Brysbaert, Marc
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Common Sense and Ordinary Language: Wittgenstein and Austin [PDF]
, 2020 What role does ‘ordinary language philosophy’ play in the defense of common sense beliefs? J.L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein each give central place to ordinary language in their responses to skeptical challenges to common sense beliefs. But Austin and
Lawlor, Krista
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