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Trust and Risk in Games of Partial Information
The 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
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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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Pragmatic elements of the speech of Broca's aphasic patients: clinical preliminar study
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1987 The author studies three patients with Broca aphasia characterized by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, and following A.R. Luria's criterion on the use and comprehension of pragmatic elements of speech - deixis of time, person, place, discourse ...
Juliano Luis Fontanari
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Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory [PDF]
, 2001 The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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On the Meaning of 'Therefore' [PDF]
, 2017 I argue for an analysis of ‘therefore’ as presupposition trigger against the more standard conventional implicature story originally put forward by Grice (1975).
Pavese, Carlotta
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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The Treatment of Geographical Dialect in Literary Translation from the Perspective of Relevance Theory [PDF]
, 2017 This paper discusses problems involved in the translation of literary works that apply linguistic varieties, especially geographical dialects. It surveys selected approaches to the functions of dialects in literature and to the strategies of dealing with
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Noûs, 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
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Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues [PDF]
, 2020 Recently several papers have reported relevance effects on the cognitive assessments of indicative conditionals, which pose an explanatory challenge to the Suppositional Theory of conditionals advanced by David Over, which is influential in the ...
Skovgaard-Olsen, Niels
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Intentionalism, anti‐Intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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