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Lin, Kevin Chaolun. "Understanding pragmatics and pragmatic understanding : towards a socio-pragmatic approach to interpersonal communication." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305689.

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McDonald, Diane. "Understanding emergence : a pragmatic interdisciplinary approach." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21953.

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Emergence is a concept which has been the subject of resurgent interest in recent years. The term is often used to describe the appearance of new macro-level properties or capabilities, which are not manifest in the individual micro-level components. Equally, it is associated with irreducibility of explanation, novelty and downward causation. Despite a long history, during which the concept has been adopted by different disciplines, there is little agreement on the real nature of emergence. This, I claim, is due to different philosophical and disciplinary perspectives as well as some lack of c

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Carlzon, Adrian. "Pragmatic Understanding through Dialogue and Choice: : How Role-playing Games like Fallout: New Vegas Promote Pragmatic Understanding." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-58742.

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Pragmatic understanding is required for us to communicate with each other in our daily life, for example, we need to know how to respond appropriately depending on context and the relation we have towards the person/s we talk to. Without pragmatic understanding, we will have a hard time communicating to one another because of failure to understand the force in what is said. Force, in this context, means the intention (underlying meaning) in the utterance. For native speakers, this understanding is naturally developed in their language. However, second-language learners can have a hard time lea

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Conroy, P. W. "Understanding developments in computer technology : A pragmatic and synthetic interpretation." Thesis, Open University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382990.

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Le, Roux Jacous Petrus. "A pragmatic approach to knowledge management : understanding the dynamics of knowledge sharing." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18047.

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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Can one measure the value of knowledge sharing? How does one assess the effectiveness of a knowledge network with regard to supporting knowledge sharing? These are pertinent questions that knowledge managers are faced with, because geographically dispersed organizations rely on knowledge networks to integrate its dispersed knowledge. These questions must be understood in the context of a knowledge management approach, for the approach determines how one navigates the complex landscape of knowledge sharing. This complex

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Rinaldi, Wendy Frances. "Understanding pragmatic meaning : a study of secondary school students with specific developmental language disorder." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021777/.

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This study explores the hypothesis that there are particular difficulties for secondary school students with specific developmental language disorder (SDLD) in understanding contextual, pragmatic meaning in relation to non pragmatic (semantic) meaning. It compares sixty-four SDLD students, aged between twelve and fourteen years, with chronolgical-age-matched and language-age-matched non-language impaired students. Language age is measured by a test of non-pragmatic meaning comprehension. Incorporating the development of new procedures, the study examines the students' comprehension of two type

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Polcar, Leah Elizabeth. "Towards understanding the processing of indirect speech acts: Reconsidering the standard pragmatic model of processing." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280495.

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This investigation tests whether a stage-type model of the processing of indirect speech acts is a fully explanatory model. A stage model, like the Standard Pragmatic Model (SPM), proposes that listeners understand the meaning of an indirect speech act by first determining direct meaning and then checking this meaning against context for sufficiency. It is only when direct meaning is found not to fully capture context that a listener proceeds to understand the meaning of an indirect speech act. This sort of model has been heavily criticized in the extant theoretical and empirical research, tho

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Ostashchenko, Ekaterina. "Access to lexical meaning in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Reconsidering the role of socio-pragmatic understanding." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/277377/5/Contrat.pdf.

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Let’s imagine a typical word-learning scenario. A toddler sits in her highchair in the kitchen and waits for her lunch. Her mother says: “Use a spoon to eat your meal”. Several objects are placed in front of the child. She can see a dish with her lunch, a spoon, a cup, a sugar bowl, a milk jar, her mother’s plate and a second cup. All these objects, present in the visual array, must be identified by the toddler; she must also parse the auditory stream into segments and determine which words are familiar and which ones are potentially new. If the child does not know the word “spoon”, she will n

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Tang, Ka-ming Gillian. "Pragmatic and cognitive development in the understanding of indirect imperatives by Cantonese-speaking children (2 ; 1-6 ; 0)." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36209004.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1994.<br>"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, 29th April, 1994." Also available in print.

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Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth. "Pragmatic Implementation Trials: Understanding the Integrated Research-Practice Partnership Approach to Lifestyle Obesity Management Across a Transforming Health System." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74239.

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Obesity, a condition of excess body fat, is one of the most complex problems facing health systems. Lifestyle management programs that combine diet, physical activity, and intensive behavioral therapy have been shown by research to support a degree of weight loss that produces health benefits (i.e., at least a 3-5% initial body weight). However, it has been difficult for research-developed programs to be delivered in typical practice to have a meaningful impact. Integrated research-practice partnerships that involve the coming together of academic researchers, health system administrators, and

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BRAMBILLA, PAOLA. "Competenza pragmatica e comprensione delle emozioni. Training studies con bambini a sviluppo tipico e atipico." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/43781.

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This research project originates within, and extends, the enquiry into the link between emotion and language (Astington & Jenkins, 1999; Cutting & Dunn, 1999; Dunn, Brown, Slomkowski, Tesela, & Youngblade, 1991; Hughes, 1998). Communication competence implies the ability to understand the mental state of an interlocutor, which in turn requires what has been defined as “theory of mind”. Having a theory of mind (ToM) means both being able to attribute mental states (in terms of emotions, feelings, beliefs, thoughts) to self and others, and understanding that behavior is based on such mental sta

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Chromik, Michael [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Butz. "Human-centric explanation facilities : explainable AI for the pragmatic understanding of non-expert end users / Michael Chromik ; Betreuer: Andreas Butz." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238017088/34.

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Emanuelsson, Gabriella, and Johanna Håkansson. "Barn med språkstörning interagerar : -en samtalsanalytisk studie av samtal mellan barn och barn samt barn och logoped." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Neuroscience and Locomotion, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10287.

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<p>This paper explores the interaction of children with language impairment (LI). The present essay is a conversation analytic study of child-child and child-therapist dyads. The aim was to explore in what ways children with LI reach common understanding. Another purpose was to investigate if there are differences in interaction between dyads with children with LI and dyads with children with LI and speech language therapist. Seven children, three girls and four boys, with LI participated in the study. All the children are enrolled at a language unit. The dialogues were recorded, transcribed a

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Pagnamenta, Fania. "Understanding dressing evaluation : a pragmatist perspective." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36005/.

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This thesis shed light on the complexities of dressing evaluation. Dressings are categorised as medical devices and as such manufacturers are not required to provide evidence of effectiveness. Instead, they promote their products by offering clinicians samples to try during their clinical work. Researchers using trial methodologies have been unable to provide a clinically helpful body of evidence. Placed within the movement critiquing Evidence-Based Practice, this thesis brings the discussion to the world of dressing evaluation, where an alternative methodology is proposed. This study takes in

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Herrero, Ruiz Javier. "Understanding tropes at the crossroads between pragmatics and cognition." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/992748860/04.

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Wilson, Elspeth Amabel. "Children's development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker's epistemic state." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270302.

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In learning language, children have to acquire not only words and constructions, but also the ability to make inferences about a speaker’s intended meaning. For instance, if in answer to the question, ‘what did you put in the bag?’, the speaker says, ‘I put in a book’, then the hearer infers that the speaker put in only a book, by assuming that the speaker is informative. On a Gricean approach to pragmatics, this implicated meaning – a quantity implicature – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seek

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DEL, SETTE PAOLA. "The social side of pragmatics in middle childhood: is metaphor understanding associated with Theory of Mind?" Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Pavia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11571/1422595.

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Henery, Ashlie. "INTERPRETING ‘REAL’ FRENCH: THE ROLE OF EXPERT MEDIATION IN LEARNERS’ OBSERVATIONS, UNDERSTANDINGS, AND USE OF PRAGMATIC PRACTICES WHILE ABROAD." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/442.

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Study abroad provides a rich context for learning pragmatics but students’ development is often complicated by their difficulty in interpreting mismatches between their own languaculture and the host community’s languaculture (that is, rich points (Agar, 1994)). Drawing on sociocultural theory, this study explores the ways in which expert mediation by a teacher-researcher may support students’ observations, understandings, and use of French pragmatic practices while abroad. The data for this study included pre and post language awareness interviews, pre and post strategic interaction scenarios

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Proestou, Maria. "Understanding societies beyond economics." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17481.

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Die gegenwärtige Politik betrachtet Windenergieanlagen als ein entscheidendes Mittel für die Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft. Dennoch lehnen die BewohnerInnen der griechischen Insel Amorgos Anträge zum Bau von Windenergieanlagen ab. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung analysiere ich, wie die InselbewohnerInnen die Option der Windenergie beurteilen. Die Analyse basiert auf einem interdisziplinären theoretischen Ansatz und einem neu entwickelten analytischen Rahmenwerk, dem Institutions - Habits - Intuitions (IHI) framework. Qualitative Forschungsmethoden, insbesondere persönliche Befragungen

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Esteve, Gibert Núria. "The integration of prosody and gesture in early intentional communication." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284226.

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This dissertation comprises four experimental studies which investigate the way infants integrate prosody and gesture for intentional communicative purposes. As adult speakers we automatically integrate prosody and gestures at a temporal and pragmatic level, and we use these cues together with social contextual information to convey and understand intentional meanings. My aim is to investigate whether infants use prosodic and gesture features in an integrated way for communicative purposes prior to their use of lexical-semantic cues. The dissertation includes four studies, each one described i

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Börjesson, Mattias. "Swedes’ Understanding of Printed Ads in English : A Study of How Well Swedish Adults Understand the Message of Printed Ads in English." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-22396.

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Advertising in English is becoming more and more common in Sweden, as well as in other non-Anglophone countries, and not all previous studies agree on how well these ads are understood by the local population. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to achieve a broader understanding as to how well the message of printed ads in English are understood by the Swedish adult population. Moreover, this study aims to establish whether there are any common tendencies or patterns in the levels of understanding between the five ads chosen for this study, and how these relate to the personal and demo

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Salomonsson, Johanna. "Verbale Interaktion mit missverstehen : Eine empirische Untersuchung zu deutschsprachigen Diskussionsforen." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-55684.

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This study examines the functions of phrases with the word missverstehen in any inflected form in German discussion groups. The corpus consists of about 600 different messages with a phrase containing the verb missverstehen from all kinds of discussion groups speaking the German language. The hypothesis is that those phrases do not always refer to a factual misunderstanding in the communication. There is no such thing as total understanding in communication, since people cannot fully know how other people are thinking. Instead understanding is a social construct. Misunderstanding occurs when a

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Smith, Helen. "Artist as navigator : understanding how the social qualities of art influence organizational change : a methodology for art as a social practice." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1377.

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• What insights can art reveal in the context of organizational change? • How do artistic practices influence the way communities address change? • In what ways can an individual artistic practice concerned with the role of art in society add new insights to theories and practices of contemporary art? These questions are approached through three interrelated methods. In the first the artist as researcher consciously addresses organizational change through her artistic practice, over a three year period, within the different communities of Woodend Barn, a volunteer-led arts centre in the North

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Sileo, Damien. "Représentations sémantiques et discursives pour la compréhension automatique du langage naturel." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU30201.

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Les modèles computationnels pour la compréhension automatique des textes ont suscité un vif intérêt en raison de gains de performances inhabituels au cours des dernières années, certains d'entre eux conduisant à des scores d'évaluation surhumains. Ce succès a conduit à affirmer la création de représentations universelles de phrases. Dans cette thèse, nous questionnons cette affirmation au travers de deux angles complémentaires. Premièrement, les réseaux de neurones et les représentations vectorielles sont-ils suffisamment expressifs pour traiter du texte de sorte à pouvoir effectuer un large é

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Goria, Stéphane. "L'Expression du problème dans la Recherche d'Informations: Application à un contexte d'Intermédiation Territoriale." Phd thesis, Université Nancy II, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00011918.

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L'Intelligence Territoriale est un concept récemment apparu en France. Nous l'avons identifié comme la conjugaison d'actions d'Intelligence Economique et de Knowledge Management appliquées à un territoire. L'Intermédiation Territoriale en est une forme particulière, qui s'appuie sur la notion de médiation et l'utilisation d'intermédiaire(s) humain(s). Nous avons participé à la mise en place d'un tel dispositif, dans lequel les intermédiaires humains sont notamment chargés de résoudre des problèmes informationnels pour des tiers. Nos travaux ont cherché à améliorer l'efficacité de ces personnel

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Chen, Holly Vera. "Pragmatic skills intervention : understanding pragmatic differences, communication breakdown management, peer & self attitudes and perceptions in children with hearing loss." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26266.

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This purpose of this study was to examine pragmatic differences in children with hearing loss compared to children without hearing loss by understanding use of communication repairs, self and peer attitudes and perceptions to suggest the most appropriate intervention approaches. Previous research has found use of communication repairs, self and peer perceptions and attitudes to be associated with pragmatic skills. Intervention approaches were suggested for remediating pragmatic differences in children with hearing loss.<br>text

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Hamblin, Jennifer L. "Understanding what is said and what is implicated the enriched pragmatic view /." Diss., 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43973078.html.

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Chang, Chin-Ning, and 張晉寧. "Understanding Chinese Pun-Based Ads in Taipei Metro Stations: A Cognitive Pragmatic Approach." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24057676420482151620.

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碩士<br>臺灣大學<br>語言學研究所<br>98<br>Advertisements have been an indivisible part of modern people’s life for decades. In order to draw attention, advertising language usually embodies many rhetoric devices to bring the receivers into a new sight. Punning is one such device preferred by Chinese ads. However, studies in this regard are scarce. The present thesis is thus devoted to investigating the comprehension process of Chinese pun-based ads complicated by words and images. Our data were all gathered by photographing the billboard ads in all the Taipei metro stations. We collected 396 ads, 101 of w

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Wang, Yi, and 王懿. "The Pragmatic Development of Understanding of the Speech Act of Promising among Chinese-Speaking Children." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88160353017426058272.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>100<br>The present study aims to investigate the pragmatic development of Chinese-speaking children‘s understanding of the speech act of promising by examining four factors which affect their promise judgments and production of promises: the promisee‘s social status, the outcome of the promise, the promiser‘s sincerity, and the explicitness of making the promise. Two comprehension tasks and one production task were conducted using a total of one hundred subjects. The subjects were divided into five groups of twenty: four experimental groups (consisting of children age

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Mewhort-Buist, Tracy Anne. "What Are You Really Saying? Verbal Irony Understanding in Children with Social Anxiety Symptoms and Shy Negative Affect." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6224.

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Verbal irony, a form of figurative language, uses the discrepancy between a speaker’s intended meaning and the literal word meanings to achieve social goals. Yet, little research exists on individual differences that may disrupt irony understanding. Verbal irony may challenge shy children, who tend to interpret ambiguous stimuli as being threatening, and who have difficulties with mentalizing in social contexts. This study assessed whether shy children interpret ironic statements differently than do non-shy children. Children (8- to11-year-olds) listened to stories wherein one character made a

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Řeháčková, Dana. "Sémantický web v konfrontaci s Peircovým pojetím sémiotiky." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-266975.

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The Semantic web was created for a purpose of conceptualization data available on the Internet. Through formalized representations, that are determined for data sharing and reusing, should have been its vision realized. Main aims of Semantic web are high exactness and relevance for searching question. The controversy and polysemy of the term "Semantic web" let us consider the question: "Where is the limit of involving semantic aspects provided on Semantic web?" Is it not only the amount of determinations of specific standards that are connected with data itself? The main aim of this thesis is

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Scheer, Steffani. "Towards a Neopragmatist Understanding of Translation: A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Medial Survey." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1082.

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Maria Tymoczko (2005) highlights four research trajectories that are likely to be at the forefront of translation studies in coming decades: the attempt to define translation, the internationalization of translation, the impact of technology and globalization on translation theory, and the contextualization of translation studies relative to other areas of academic inquiry. The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the first research trajectory. I hope to enrich current developments in translation studies by offering a new way of conceptualizing translation based upon pragmatist philosophy a

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