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Implicature In Courageous Movie Script

open access: yes, 2022
This research aimed to describe the Implicature in Courageous Movie script by Alex Hendrick. This research focused on how is implicature used in Courageous Movie Script by Alex Hendrick.
Sitanggang, Lasriani, Amstrong, Neil
core   +1 more source

Prosodic and Semantic Properties of Intonational Phrases

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between prosodic and semantic properties of Intonational Phrases, based on the facts from Serbian.
Milićev Tanja   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trust and Risk in Games of Partial Information

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2013
Games of partial information have been used to explicate Gricean implicature; their solution concept has been murky, however. In this paper, I will develop a simple solution concept that can be used to solve games of partial information, depending on the
Robin Clark
doaj   +1 more source

What Contributes to Self‐Efficacy in Speaking Chinese as a Foreign Language: A Social Cognitive Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grounded in social cognitive theory, this study investigated how high‐evidence factors jointly contribute to Chinese‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (CFL) speaking self‐efficacy. Data from 236 CFL learners in Beijing revealed a multifaceted pattern of associations.
Peijian Paul Sun   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The determination of what is said and what is implied

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
wiley   +1 more source

The meanings of perspectival verbs and their implications on the taxonomy of projective content/conventional implicature

open access: yes, 2016
This work discusses the  presuppositional meanings of three kinds of perspectival (perspective-sensitive) verbs: (i) motion-deictic verbs, (ii) empathy-loaded verbs, and (iii) referent-honorific verbs, and their implications on the taxonomy of ...
D. Y. Oshima
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genre and Conversation

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

How and why conventional implicatures project

open access: yesSemantics and Linguistic Theory, 2015
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Conventional Implicatures (CIs; in the sense of </span><span>Potts 2005</span><span>) are part of a larger class of projection phenomena. These phenomena also include presuppositions and anaphora, and can described
Venhuizen, Noortje J.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURE AND LANGUAGE CHANGE: THE ROMANIAN PARADIGM OF IDENTITY

open access: yes, 2017
A evolucao ciclica dos pronomes românicos de identidade (ex.: insuș i e același ) fornece dados interessantes para documentar o impacto de fatores pragmaticos na mudanca lingu.stica, uma vez que ela mostra como palavras que trazem implicaturas ...
M. Manoliu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Requests Create Reasons

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
wiley   +1 more source

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