Showing posts with label Pragmatics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pragmatics. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2013

Cooperative Principle and Implicature

These slides explain Grice's Cooperative Principle, it's Maxims and how does Implicature arise by flouting a maxim or following it. They also discuss other theories for explaining implicature i.e. The Politeness Principle and The Relevance Theory.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Pragmatics

These slides provide a very brief overview of Pragmatics and its concepts including Invisible Meaning, Inference, Context and Co-text, Presupposition, Reference, Anaphora, Speech Acts, Face, Politeness etc.