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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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A Linguistic Analysis of the Theme of Racism Represented in Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us '' [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmThis study explores Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us ''. It aims to reveal the function of the pragmatic features of the song.
Jihad Shaban Wahba
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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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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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International 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.
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Mind &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
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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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PRESUPPOSITIONS AND IMPLICATURES [PDF]
, 2008 Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Ienneke, Indra Dewi
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Philosophy 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
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Cross-linguistic variation in the expression of ignorance
IsoglossThis article examines the properties of epistemic indefinites (EIs) when pluralized, focusing on the following puzzle: while ignorance is expressed by both singular and plural EIs in a number of languages, e.g.
Eric Mathieu, Simone Diana Zamarlik
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