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Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory

2003
According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like (1981) and (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles. In this paper I want to argue that (i) there are major problems for reducing Gricean pragmatics to these two principles, and ...
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Do Cairene Speakers Use Conversational Implicature in Their English?

Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation, 2022
Ahmed Abu-Hassoub
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Evidentiality as Conversational Implicature: Implications for Corpus Annotation

Procedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
Marta Carretero
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Imaginative resistance and conversational implicature

2010
Abstract: We experience resistance when we are engaging with fictional works which present certain (for example, morally objectionable) claims. But in virtue of what properties do sentences trigger this imaginative resistance? I argue that while most accounts of imaginative resistance have looked for semantic properties in virtue of which sentences ...
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A problem about conversational implicature

Linguistics and Philosophy, 1979
Philip Hugly, Charles Sayward, Sayward Charles   +2 more
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Infelicitous Cancellation: The Explicit Cancellability Test for Conversational Implicature Revisited

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2015
Jonas Akerman
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Conversational implicature

1996
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AGAINST CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

Journal of Semantics, 1982
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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature

SynthÈse, 2005
Leon Horsten, Horsten Leon
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Conversational implicature in children's comprehension of reference

Communication Monographs, 1981
Sally Jackson
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