INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS
1. Student's full name:Cao Thanh Viet
2. Gender: Male
3. Date of birth: August 1, 1991
4. Place of birth: Duc Tho, Ha Tinh
5. Decision on student admission No. 3215/2014/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 31, 2014, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in the training process: None
7. Thesis title:Symmetry problems and implicature theory (based on English and Vietnamese materials)
8. Major: Linguistics; Code: 60.22.02.40
9. Scientific supervisor:TS. Trinh Huu Tue(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
10. Summary of the thesis results:
One consequence of Grice's conversational maxims is that the uttered proposition is the most informative of the important propositions that the speaker believes to be true (Grice 1967). This consequence contradicts reality when two propositions exist that are both more important and informative than the uttered proposition but contradict each other. This contradiction is technically known as the "symmetry problem." This thesis introduces the symmetry problem and discusses two ways to solve it, the second of which develops and supplements the first.
11. Practical applications:
12. Future research directions:
Supplementing and developing the grammatical theory of implicature based on some observations in the Vietnamese language.
13. Published works related to the thesis:
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Cao Thanh Viet 2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: August 1, 1991 4. Place of birth: Duc Tho, Ha Tinh
5. Admission decision number: 3215/2014/QD-XHNV-SDH Dated: December 31, 2014,by President University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University Hanoi.
6. Changes in academic process: None
7. Official thesis title:Symmetry Problem and Theories of Implicatures (in English and Vietnamese )
8. Major: Linguistics Code: 60.22.02.40
9. Supervisors:Dr. Tue Trinh (Assistant Professor at Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee)
10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:
A consequence of Grice's maxims is that the proposition which is asserted is the most informative one in the set of relevant propositions which the speaker believes to be true (cf. Grice 1967). This contradicts in reality in the case there are two relevant propositions which are both more informative than the assertion but contradict each other. This contradiction is the so-called “symmetry problem” in the literature. This thesis introduces the symmetry problem and discusses two approaches to dissolve it, in which the second one develops from the first one.
11. Practical applicability, if any:
12. Further research directions, if any:
Develop the grammatical theory of implicatures based on some observations in Vietnamese.
13. Thesis-related publications: None
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