2 résultats pour "pragmatic"
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A pragmatic approach to metaphorical irony
1.0 Introduction: Our research paper is concerned with metaphorical irony, which falls within the domain of Pragmatics. Pragmatics is concerned with the appropriate use of sentences as utterances in the process of linguistic communication (lecture notes). Therefore, we need to draw a distinction between the terms "sentence" and "utterance" before we provide a working definition of Pragmatics, which is our domain of study. This constitutes one part of our review of the relevant literature....
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Confucian philosophy, Chinese
occupies a pre-eminent place in the history of Chinese philosophy. The core of Confucian thought lies in the teachings of Confucius (551-479 BC) contained in the Analects ( Lunyu ), along with the brilliant and divergent contributions of Mencius (372?-289 BC) and Xunzi ( fl. 298-238 BC), as well as the Daxue (Great Learning) and the Zhongyong (Doctrine of the Mean), originally chapters in the Liji (Book of Rites). Significant and original developments, particularly along a quasi-metaphysica...