Cooperativity is usually seen as a central concept in the pragmatics of dialogue. There are a number of accounts of dialogue performance and interpretation that require some notion of cooperation or collaboration as part of the explanatory mechanism of communication. For instance, Grice’s cooperativity principle and associated maxims are used to explain conversational implicature (Grice, 1975)....

Morals by Agreement contained a distinctive theory of economic justice alongside its theory of moral obligation. That theory involved the principle that individuals were entitled to the full fruits of their labour in situations of isolated production, but not in situations where social cooperation was needed for production. In the latter case, factor rent was to be included in the cooperative s...

This study sought to investigate the effect of cooperative learning on EFL learners’ creativity and motiva- tion. Accordingly, 66 pre-intermediate female learners were selected among 90 through their performance on a piloted sample Preliminary English Test. Learners were assigned into two control and experimental group. The Abedi-Schumaker Creativity Test (ACT) and the Attitude/Motivation Test ...

Cooperative sensors allow for reliable detection, classification and localization of objects in the vehicle’s surroundings – even without a line-of-sight contact to the object. The sensor principle is based on a communication signal between the vehicle and a transponder attached to the object of interest – a pedestrian, for example. Thereby, localization information is gathered by measuring the...

Conversational implicatures are usually described as being licensed by the disobeying or flouting of some principle by the speaker in cooperative dialogue. However, such work has failed to distinguish cases of the speaker flouting such a principle from cases where the speaker is either deceptive or holds a mistaken belief. In this paper, we demonstrate how the three different cases can be disti...

abstract the aim of this survey is to compare utilization systems (cooperative, private and governmental) methods of energy consumption in soybean production and the evaluation of energy inputs effect in yield of soybean in moghan. for this purpose, the information were collected from 54 private farmers, 14 cooperative members farmers and 14 agro-industry units by questionnaire method. the maxi...

abstract a quantitative framework of combination of liner programming and cooperative game theory was used in this study to analyze and model cooperative contracts in production based on rural households' resources cooperation in firoozabad plain. revenues and costs in cooperation game theory have important rule to get agreement. transaction cost function was used in cooperative costs accountin...