Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements

The effect of financial statements readability on the agency cost

The ambiguity in the readability of financial statements has led to a reduction in the ability of investors to analyze and understand financial information and can be a factor in modifying the agency cost. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of audit quality and the quality of internal controls in adjusting the relationship between the readability of financial statements and agency...

Integrating Pragmatics into the Grammar

0 . Introduction In recent years, the number of linguists who refer to notions like focus and ground have grown rapidly. Many interesting articles have appeared that show that we cannot give a complete syntactic, morphological or prosodic analysis without taking such notions into acccount. By the focus of an utterance I understand the new information that the speaker wants to convey. In contras...

Integrating Pragmatics into the Grammar

0.Introduction In recent years, the number of linguists who refer to notions like focus and ground have grown rapidly. 1 Many interesting articles have appeared that show that we cannot give a complete syntactic, morphological or prosodic analysis without taking such notions into acccount. By the focus of an utterance I understand the new information that the speaker wants to convey. In contras...

Focus , and the Grammar - Pragmatics Interface

In the introduction to her classic paper on topic, Reinhart (1982) writes: “Although the subject matter of pragmatic theory is ostensibly linguistic communication, much of it deals, in fact, with the more general problem of human interaction, which is independent of linguistic considerations and of which linguistic communication is just a particular manifestation. Thus, as Grice points out, his...

Topic, Focus, and the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface