Download or read book Metaphors and Implicatures in Shakespeare s Much Ado about Nothing written by Achim Binder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Tubingen (Neuphilologie), course: Understanding Utterances, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: For many people it seems that the application and analysis of metaphors only belongs to the field of literary studies. There are, however, such a large number of metaphorical expressions and lexicalized, so-called "frozen metaphors" in both German and English that the importance of metaphors exceeds by far their poetic usage. For Grice, metaphors result from the flouting of the first maxim (Quality) - that of not saying what one believes to be false. Metaphorical expressions hence provoke a search for the intended speaker meaning because of the obvious discrepancy between the proposition expressed by the utterance and the "falseness" of its content. This "falseness", however, is not always clear to see. Take, for example, the metaphor "no man is an island". It is obviously metaphorical in both content and meaning and one could deduce a whole range of weak implicatures from it but it is in no way "literally false". Considering that Grice labelled tropes and figures of speech (such as tautology, irony and metaphor) as cases of "maxim exploitation", it seems reasonable to analyse a text which allows for a maximum of maxim exploitation and whose author is responsible for a large number of frozen metaphors in English: What makes Shakespeare (to name just one example) extraordinary is the way he exploited this ordinary aspect of communication so that a single line or phrase triggers the discovery of a whole array of implicatures. The centre of this paper will thus be a linguistic analysis of metaphors and implicatures in Shakespeare's play Much Ado about Nothing.
Download or read book Metaphors and implicatures in Shakespeare s Much Ado about Nothing written by Achim Binder and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Tubingen (Neuphilologie), course: Understanding Utterances, language: English, abstract: For many people it seems that the application and analysis of metaphors only belongs to the field of literary studies. There are, however, such a large number of metaphorical expressions and lexicalized, so-called “frozen metaphors” in both German and English that the importance of metaphors exceeds by far their poetic usage. For Grice, metaphors result from the flouting of the first maxim (Quality) – that of not saying what one believes to be false. Metaphorical expressions hence provoke a search for the intended speaker meaning because of the obvious discrepancy between the proposition expressed by the utterance and the “falseness” of its content. This “falseness”, however, is not always clear to see. Take, for example, the metaphor “no man is an island”. It is obviously metaphorical in both content and meaning and one could deduce a whole range of weak implicatures from it but it is in no way “literally false”. Considering that Grice labelled tropes and figures of speech (such as tautology, irony and metaphor) as cases of “maxim exploitation” , it seems reasonable to analyse a text which allows for a maximum of maxim exploitation and whose author is responsible for a large number of frozen metaphors in English: What makes Shakespeare (to name just one example) extraordinary is the way he exploited this ordinary aspect of communication so that a single line or phrase triggers the discovery of a whole array of implicatures. The centre of this paper will thus be a linguistic analysis of metaphors and implicatures in Shakespeare’s play Much Ado about Nothing.
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yale Shakespeare Much ado about nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rolfe s Shakespeare Much ado about nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Much ado about nothing ed by J C Smith written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deception and villainy in Shakespeare s Much ado about nothing written by Nadine Richters and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Hamburg (IAA), course: Literaturseminar: William Shakespeare: „Much ado about nothing“ , language: English, abstract: Deception and the exploitation of the characters’ credulousness are leitmotifs within Shakespeare’s play “Much ado about nothing”. central theme in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. However, the people being deceived are not as unintelligent as one might think at first perception. Most of them have a high social rank and this usually implies that people have access to higher education. This is proved by the character’s high command of rhetoric stylistic devices, their expression and the way they phrase their thoughts and feelings. Even Don Pedro, who generally seems to be above everything, can be easily deceived by his bastard brother Don John. The recipient notices this in scene 3.2 when Don John makes them believe that Margret is Hero who has premarital sexual intercourse and thus is infidelous towards Claudio. There are three important forms of deception within the play of which I will inform you in section 2.. Furthermore I will state Don John’s character traits, define the villain’s function, name his intrigues and how they perfectly work. In the last section I try to explain the reason why it is apparently easy to deceive the fundamentally intelligent characters. On the whole, Shakespeare shows the characters’ dealing between appearance and reality and deception and self-deception. Nearly every character of the play is involved in a deception and has to learn to distinguish appearance from reality. Paradoxically, even the most intelligent characters are not excluded. Schabert characterises the appearance and reality theme as follows:
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Comedy of Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by Les Prairies Numeriques. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IS A COMEDY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN 1598 AND 1599, AS SHAKESPEARE WAS APPROACHING THE MIDDLE OF HIS CAREER. THE PLAY WAS INCLUDED IN THE FIRST FOLIO, PUBLISHED IN 1623. By means of "noting" (which, in Shakespeare's day, sounded similar to "nothing" as in the play's title, and which means gossip, rumour, and overhearing), Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice join forces to set things right, and the others join in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples.In Messina, a messenger brings news that Don Pedro, a prince from Aragon, will return that night from a successful battle, alongside Claudio and Benedick. Beatrice, niece of Leonato, a governor of Messina, asks the messenger about Benedick and makes sarcastic remarks about his ineptitude as a soldier. Leonato explains that "There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her."Upon the soldiers' arrival, Leonato welcomes Don Pedro and invites him to stay for a month, Benedick and Beatrice resume their "merry war", and Pedro's illegitimate brother Don John is introduced. Claudio's feelings for Hero, Leonato's only daughter, are rekindled upon seeing her, and Claudio soon announces to Benedick his intention to court her. Benedick, who openly despises marriage, tries to dissuade his friend, but Don Pedro encourages the marriage. Benedick swears that he will never get married. Don Pedro laughs at him and tells him that when he has found the right person he shall get married.A masquerade ball is planned in celebration of the end of the war, giving a disguised Don Pedro the opportunity to woo Hero on Claudio's behalf. Don John uses this situation to get revenge on him by telling Claudio that Don Pedro is wooing Hero for himself. A furious Claudio confronts Don Pedro, but the misunderstanding is quickly resolved and Claudio wins Hero's hand in marriage.Meanwhile, Benedick disguises himself and dances with Beatrice, who proceeds to tell this "mystery man" that Benedick is "the prince's jester, a very dull fool." Enraged by her words, Benedick swears he will have revenge. Don Pedro and his men, bored at the prospect of waiting a week for the wedding, concoct a plan to match-make between Benedick and Beatrice. They arrange for the former to overhear a conversation in which they declare that the latter is madly in love with him, but is too afraid to tell him as their pride is the main impediment to their courtship. Meanwhile, Hero and her maid, Ursula, ensure Beatrice overhears them discuss Benedick's undying love for her. The tricks have the desired effect: both Benedick and Beatrice are delighted to think they are the object of unrequited love, and both accordingly resolve to mend their faults and reconcile.
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative, exuberant comedy contrasts two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes. Filled with suspense, clever turns of plot, vivacious displays of wit, and charming songs, this is one of the Bard's most beloved and performed works.
Download or read book The Yale Shakespeare Much ado about nothing ed by Tucker Brooke written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much Ado About Nothing is a brand new edition in our Heinemann Shakespeare series. Opening up Shakespeare to all KS3 and GCSE students this new edition includes: accessible notes and summaries to ensure students understand and are excited by Shakespeare unsurpassed preparation for the KS3 Tests - offering supported and varied scene by scene activities structured around Character, Language, Performance and Theme holistic activities focus both on the play as a whole and on comparisons within the play to sharpen student learning at both KS3 and GCSE
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing Annotated written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599, as Shakespeare was approaching the middle of his career. The play was included in the First Folio, published in 1623.
Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare Shakespeare s Most Imaginative Play Annotated Edition written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most imaginative and exuberant comedies, contrasting two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes. Attracted to each other, the maddeningly skeptical Beatrice and Benedick are dead-locked in a lively war of words until their friends hatch a plot to unite them. The mutually devoted Hero and Claudio, on the other hand, all too quickly fall victim to a malicious plot to part them. Near-fatal complications ensue, but with the help of the hilarious Constable Dogberry and his confederates, the lovers are ultimately united.First presented in 1598, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's last comedies. Its darker undercurrents foreshadow the playwright's growing concern with the frailties of human character that would dominate his late tragedies. But in its clever turns of plot, vivacious displays of wit, jovial conversations, and charming songs, this merry comedy is among Shakespeare's most artistic creations.
