Sökning: "Formal Pragmatics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Formal Pragmatics.

  1. 1. Normative Recursion : on Recursive Grounding and the Capacity for Radical Critique in Formal Pragmatics, Recognition, Social Freedom and Justification

    Författare :Jakob Strandgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Formal Pragmatics; Recognition; Social Freedom; Justification; Recursion; Normative Validity Surplus; Critique; Reconstruction; Normative Foundations; Jürgen Habermas; Axel Honneth; Rainer Forst;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the meta-ethical question: What properties would be required of a normative critical concept in order for it to be (a) derived from the social facticity of prevailing norms, practices and institutions in a given society and (b) still be capable of informing radical critique? This thesis takes radical critique to mean one that escapes all charges of status quo biases and thus truly transcends the immanent content of the norms, practices and institutions from which it was derived.This thesis asserts that the necessary property of such a concept is recursion. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Disarming Context Dependence. A Formal Inquiry into Indexicalism and Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

    Författare :Stellan Petersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; indexicalism; truth-conditional pragmatics; the present perfect; compositional event semantics; radical contextualism; semantic minimalism; relevance theory;

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  4. 3. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

    Författare :Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Verbal Meaning: A Linguistic, Literary, and Theological Framework for Interpretive Categories of the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System as Elaborated in the Book of Ruth

    Författare :Bo-Krister Ljungberg; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; perspe; grounding; text linguistics; subordination; mood; modality; tense; temporal location; aspect; ideology; level; pragmatics; semantics; syntax; communicative dimensions; Old testament exegesis; book of Ruth; verbal system; Framework; biblical Hebrew; Bible; Bibelvetenskap; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The verbal system of Biblical Hebrew has intrigued the minds of exegetes, linguists, theologians, and translators for centuries. With regard to the verbal system, Biblical Hebrew is radically different from Modern Hebrew. Furthermore, it doesn't fit the traditional structure of grammar modelled on Latin. LÄS MER

  7. 5. From Interaction to Grammar : Estonian Finite Verb Forms in Conversation

    Författare :Leelo Keevallik; Raimo Raag; Bengt Nordberg; Auli Hakulinen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonian language; Particles; grammar; grammaticalization; interactional linguistics; pragmatics; telephone conversation; conversation analysis; Estonian; Estniska; Estonian language; Estniska språket;

    Sammanfattning : This study contributes to the research tradition of interactional linguistics. It demonstrates how interactional patterns and sequences of actions are, or emerge as, part of the syntagmatic structure of a language, and why the transitions from interaction to grammar as well as from content to function items, are to be regarded as gradual and continuous. LÄS MER