THE POWER OF MAXIMS
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Activity No. 1
Find the Maxims
In this Activity you will determine the maxim in the sentence.
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1.We will end it by telling the truth – forcefully, repeatedly, confidently – and by trusting that the American people will embrace the need for change.
2.More importantly, because of you, we have seen that it's possible to overcome the politics of division and distraction; that it's possible to overcome the same old negative attacks that are always about scoring points and never about solving our problems.
3.This election is about you – the American people – and whether we will have a president and a party that can lead us toward a brighter future.
Activity No. 2
Learning Speech Act Theory
Speech acts are staples of everyday communicative life. It has been influential not only within philosophy, but also in linguistics, psychology, legal theory, artificial intelligence, literary theory, and other scholarly disciplines. Recognition of the importance of speech acts has illuminated the ability of language to do other things than describe reality. In the process, the boundaries among the philosophy of language, the philosophy of action, the philosophy of mind and even ethics have become transparent. In turn, speech allows them to be interconnected with each other. In addition, an appreciation of speech acts has helped lay bare an implicit normative structure within linguistic practice, including the part concerned with describing reality. Recent research aims at an accurate characterization of this normative structure underlying linguistic practice (Ideology and Speech-Act Theory).