Domande Lingua Inglese 3
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Cappelli
- What is the difference between semantics and pragmatics?
- What is the difference between deixis and anaphora?
- What is the role of context in understanding the meaning of the speaker? What is its role in
contextual meaning?
- If you had to decipher a message in a bottle, what kind of context would you need?
- What are the tests that we can apply trying to distinguish between constative and performative
actions?
- What does it mean that every speech can be analysed based on his locution, illocution and
perlocution? What are those?
- Give examples of illocutions in the phrase ***. What kind of speech act would it be if the person
was actually asking or saying it?
- What are the maxims of the cooperative principle? Explain them.
- Why do we need the cooperative principle?
- What if a person let you understand they are voluntarily not respecting the principle?
- What is an implicature? How do you derive implicature?
- Why is presupposition used in advertising? How?
- Is speech act universal? What does it mean in term of different languages?
- What is social deixis? Is it expressed the same in all languages?
- What is the function of deixis?
- Why can the study of pragmatic contribute to explain the way communication cross culturally?
- What is entailment?
- What is the role of general background knowledge in understanding the meaning of the speaker?
Why do we need it? What is it?
- What does it mean to flout the maxim? What is the result? What does the hearer do?
- What are the differences between entailment, presupposition and implicature?
- Give an example of scalar implicature.
Bertuccelli
- Outline the difference between the traditional approach and the philosophical approach to
metaphor. Purposes of metaphors (expressive, exc…)
- Which are the most important approaches to metaphor?
- Tell the differences between irony, sarcasm and satire. What do the three phenomena shares?
- Give an example of conceptual metaphor and explain it.
- What is the difference between conceptual metaphor and common ordinary metaphorical
expression?
- What are the features of the target and the source?
- What is the difference between blending theory and conceptual metaphor theory?
- Concerning figurative language: what is the meaning of figurative? How is it related to figure and
imagery?
- Why *** is a conceptual metaphor? Explain.
- What is the tradicional Grician (of Grice) view of irony?
What is the mechanism that allows the hearer to reach the intended meaning?
Implicatures are triggered by doing what? How do you get a implicature?
What can you do with the maxims?
When you say something ironically what is happening?
It’s not enough to grab the opposite meaning of an ironic sentence but you need to understand
also what of the speaker? (Attitude. What kind?)
- There is any other theory of irony that you remember apart the Grician one? Explain them.
- Why is it called pretence theory?
