Parallel Architecture: From Problems and Mysteries to Solutions and Explanations. [PDF]
Top Cogn SciAbstract We argue that Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture (PA) is the right way to think about the architecture of the language faculty. The critical property of this architecture is that it allows for genuine explanation by allocating different aspects of linguistic phenomena to appropriate corresponding representations and capacities.
Culicover PW, Varaschin G.
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DEICTIC MITIGATION VS COMMISSIVE ACTS IN POLITICAL INTERVIEW (BASED ON THE MODERN EUROPEAN DISCOURSE OF AID TO UKRAINE) [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2022 The article deals with the problem of correlation between the illocutionary force of indirect commissive acts and shields as deictic mitigating markers that reduce the level of promises by influencing their felicity conditions.
Nataliia K. Kravchenko +2 more
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IMPLICATION OF REMIDING RIDWAN REMIN IN STAND UP COMEDY EVENTS
Magistra Andalusia, 2020 Implications are a theory maybe the meaning is implied rather than explicit. Studies on these implicatures can be found on every day life as seen in the stand up comedy discourse by Ridwan Remin.
Nazilul _ Masroi
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Focus Particles (Just, Even, And, etc.) in the Advertisements [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2015 The article has been prepared by carrying out the analysis of focus particles: just, even, and, etc. It is important to note that particles play a very important role in linguistic pragmatics: they convey additional meanings called the conventional ...
Danguolė Valančė
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Conversational implicatures in “Negeri 5 Menara”: is the principle of politeness violated?
Insights into Language, Culture and Communication, 2023 Many works of literature stress the significance of meaning in communication. Thus, a great number of researchers have conducted studies on implicature using novels as data sources.
Farida Ariyani +3 more
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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Slurs and Pragmatic Competition [PDF]
ManuscritoDifferences in informativeness regarding truth-conditional and presuppositional content elicit scalar inferences. Many sentences carry not-at-issue, non-presupposed content, e.g. conventional implicatures.
NICOLÁS LO GUERCIO
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Near-synonyms of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate Origin
Iperstoria, 2022 This article examines the semantic relations holding between pairs of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate near-synonyms in present-day English, such as speed/velocity, sweat/perspire, shy/timid and before/prior.
Daniele Franceschi
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Speaker meaning, what is said and what is implicated [PDF]
, 2002 [First Paragraph] Unlike so many other distinctions in philosophy, H P Grice's distinction between what is said and what is implicated has an immediate appeal: undergraduate students readily grasp that one who says 'someone shot my parents' has merely ...
Saul, J.M.
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Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. [PDF]
Child DevABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Florit-Pons J +4 more
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