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Grice's maxim of quantity requires that you make your contribution to the conversation as informative as is needed for the current exchange. For example, let's say that A asks B "What did you have f...

Take a deep breath. Look at the text you have to analyse or the texts you have to compare. Look at your question and begin to plan: take 5-10 minutes at the start of the exam to plan your answers (this wi...

The first thing I would keep in mind when trying to categorise a text or a number of texts is that there are multiple different ways to categorise texts, but there has to be data in these texts to support...

To fully understand Othello’s character you have to understand the themes and key threads Shakespeare uses to delve and craft Othello’s character by. Shakespeare presents Othello using a few key themes- F...

Semantics is most easily explained as representing the 'dictionary meaning' of something - what you'd interpret as the literal meaning of a sentence, for example, is being analysed with the theories of se...