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Conversational Implicatures (and How to Spot Them) [PDF]
, 2013 In everyday conversations we often convey information that goes above and beyond what we strictly speaking say: exaggeration and irony are obvious examples. H.P.
Blome-Tillmann, Michael
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Wayne A. Davis, Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory [PDF]
, 2001 [First Paragraph] In his recent book, Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory (1998), Wayne Davis argues that the Gricean approach to conversational implicature is bankrupt and offers a new approach of his own.
Saul, J.M.
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Contrast and the structure of discourse
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 The semantics of the coordinator but does not fit neatly into the traditional distinction between entailments and conversational implicatures. In its counterexpectational use, but can convey an implication relating its two conjuncts, which Grice (1975 ...
Maziar Toosarvandani
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Ėto uže meloči. From Phasal Adverb to Intensifier: The Pragmaticalization of uže
Studi Slavistici, 2020 Adopting a usage-based constructional approach with a functional-cognitive orientation, this study examines the mechanisms that regulate the interaction between intensification and identification of the referent in different types of copular sentences ...
Valentina Benigni
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Linguopragmatic Potential of Active Processes in Russian Neological Word Formation of Latest Period
Научный диалог, 2022 The communicative-pragmatic effects in the generation and functioning of new phenomena in the Russian neological word formation of the latest period is discussed in the article.
T. B. Radbil, L. Jaszay, I. Palosi
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Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of “and”, “but”, “therefore”, and “if–then” [PDF]
, 2017 In this study we investigate the influence of reason-relation readings of indicative conditionals and ‘and’/‘but’/‘therefore’ sentences on various cognitive assessments. According to the Frege-Grice tradition, a dissociation is expected.
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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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Dutch slurs and the descriptive-expressive distinction
Glossa, 2023 There is a lot of debate about the meaning of slurs, which are words that refer to a certain group of people in a derogative manner. Many scholars (e.g.
Lotte Hogeweg
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Courage, cowardice, and Maher’s misstep [PDF]
, 2017 Could a Nazi soldier or terrorist be courageous? The Courage Problem asks us to answer this sort of question, and then to explain why people are reluctant to give this answer.
Kyle, Brent G.
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2021 The article is devoted to the pragmatics of the quasi-symbol, a linguistic and cultural unit that has a verbal nature. It functions as a sign of culture, expresses ideas, and models human behavior.
Grigoriy Tokarev
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