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Varieties of conventional implicature

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
This paper provides a system capable of analyzing the combinatorics of a wide range of conventionally implicated and expressive constructions in natural language via an extension of Potts's (2005) L_CI logic for supplementary conventional implicatures ...
Eric Scott McCready
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A Contrastive Analysis: What is the Conventional Implicature? Is the “Bad” Content of a Slur Conveyed as a Conventional Implicature?

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies, 2022
The conventional implicature, arguably, refers to plenty of linguistic aspects with respect to episteme, metaphysics, as well as semantic criticism of language. Accordingly, the conventional implication consists of a sort of specific literal meanings, which slightly differ from the conversational implication.
Wadigala Samitharathana Thero
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Conventional Implicatures in Argumentation

Languages, 2022
Despite the ubiquity of conventional implicatures in language and the critical role they play in argumentation, they have heretofore been almost entirely absent from theories of argument and the linguistic expression of reasoning.
Annette Hautli-Janisz, Katarzyna Budzynska, Chris Reed   +2 more
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Conventional Implicature in Persuasive Speech Acts of the Song Syi'ir Tanpa Waton and Its Pedagogical Relevance to Javanese Literary Text in Senior High Schools

Journal of Pragmatics Research
Conventional implicature in persuasive speech acts serves as an effective linguistic mechanism for delivering moral messages and noble values in a refined manner, as exemplified in the Javanese religious song Syi'ir Tanpa Waton.
Ahmad Rizky Wahyudi, Ina Ika Pratita, Riki Nasrullah   +2 more
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Conventional Implicature in Patient Package Inserts

Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics, 2016
The study aims to investigate the legal aspects and the informative aspects, especially the conventional implicature of patient package inserts. Eighty five patient package inserts were collected from licensed drugstores in Surakarta and the surroundings
Ruben Dharmawan
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The Conventional Implicature of Dialogues in Emma

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2019), 2019
Criticisms and reviews on Emma have been numerous in number and various in approaches. This study, as a qualitative case study, attempts to analyze the conventional implicature of dialogues in Emma by employing cooperative principle in order to explore ...
Yi-Jun Wu
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How Do Addressees Exploit Conventionalizations? From a Negative Reference to an ad hoc Implicature [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
A negative reference, such as “not the sculpture” (where the sculpture is a name the speaker had only just invented to describe an unconventional-looking object and where the negation is saying that she does not currently desire that object), seems like ...
Edmundo Kronmüller, Ira Noveck
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‘But’ implicatures: a study of the effect of working memory and argument characteristics [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the possible cognitive costs involved in processing the implicatures from but and the conclusion introducing words so and nevertheless.
Leen Janssens, Walter Schaeken
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Sorries seem to have the harder words. [PDF]

Br J Psychol
Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Lev-Ari S.
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Catalan “Déu n’hi do” and Conventional Implicatures in Exclamatives

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008
This paper presents a formal semantic analysis of the Catalan interjection ‘Déu n’hi do’ (DND, henceforth) and its interactions with exclamative sentences.
Laia Mayol
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