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Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge
The present paper argues that there is a knowledge norm for conversational implicature: one may conversationally implicate p only if one knows p. Linguistic data about the cancellation behavior of implicatures and the ways they are challenged and ...
Eliran Haziza
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Saying (Nothing) and Conversational Implicatures
AbstractI defend an alternative theory of conversational implicatures that does without Grice's notion of making‐as‐if‐to‐say. This theory characterises conversationally implicating thatpas a way to mean thatpby saying thatqor by saying nothing. Cases that Grice's theory cannot capture are captured, and cases that Grice's theory misdescribes are ...
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SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN CONVERSATIONS AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS
Social contexts play important roles in the conversations. The speakers need to always refer to those contexts when conversing. Moreover, conversations do not only contain literal meanings but also meanings beyond the utterances.
Aldha Williyan
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CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE OF THE PRESENTERS IN TAKE ME OUT INDONESIA
: In the past few years, game shows such as Take Me Out Indonesia were quite popular in Indonesian television. These game shows were quite interesting to study because they were not only involving many participants, but also requiring the settings in ...
Sheila Nanda +2 more
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Conversational implicatures in indirect replies [PDF]
In this paper we present algorithms for the interpretation and generation of a kind of particularized conversational implicature occurring in certain indirect replies. Our algorithms make use of discourse expectations, discourse plans, and discourse relations. The algorithms calculate implicatures of discourse units of one or more sentences.
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
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Conversational Implicature of Peanuts Comic Strip Based on Grice’s Maxim Theory
This article discusses about conversational implicature that occurs in Peanuts comic strips. The objectives of this study are to find out the implied meaning in the conversation between Charlie Brown with Lucy van Pelt and Lucy van Pelt with Linus van ...
Muhartoyo Muhartoyo, Sistofa Sistofa
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IMPLIKATUR YANG MENIMBULKAN HUMOR DALAM SERIAL ROKU NIN NO OKUSAN OLEH SHIMURA KEN
The purpose of this study was to describe the implicature of conversation that arise as the result of the violation of Grice’s cooperative principle. The result showed that the implicature of conversation that exist in those speeches had been preeceded
Muhaimin Muhaimin
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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