Essays about: "Peter Szczepanski"

Found 1 essay containing the words Peter Szczepanski.

  1. 1. Flouting the maxims in scripted speech : An analysis of flouting the maxims of conversation in the television series Firefly

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Peter Szczepanski; [2015]
    Keywords : conversational maxims; cooperative principle; H.P. Grice; flouting; implicature;

    Abstract : Although conversations in television shows are supposed to mimic and represent everyday natural speech, they are written for a specific purpose. The aim of this paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most in the television series Firefly and analyse what the effects of these flouts are. READ MORE