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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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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Breheny, Richard +2 more
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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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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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Conventional Implicatures in Ukrainian Discourse
Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2023 The present study aims at the analysis of conventional implicatures (Grice, 1991) actualized in Ukrainian dialogical discourse. The distinction between conventional and conversational implicatures is described. We argue that what is commonly considered conventional implicature is in fact implicature only in discourse.
Liliia Bezugla +3 more
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Arguments, Implicatures and Argumentative Implicatures [PDF]
, 2012 In the first part of this paper I make some general remarks about the relevance of semantics and pragmatics to argumentation theory, insisting on the importance of the reconstruction of speaker meaning for argument analysis ...
Moldovan, Andrei
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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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This paper advances the following criticisms against the received view of implicatures: (1) implicatures are relations of pragmatic implication and not attempts to convey particular speaker meanings; (2) conversational implicatures are non-cancellable ...
Silva, Matheus
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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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