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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Sentiment Analysis of Conversational Implicature: A Computational Pragmatics Approach

Applied Artificial Intelligence
The process of inferring the intention of conversational implicatures involves the interpretation of the speaker’s sentiment. However, the relationship between implicatures and sentiments has not been clear enough, and there is no research explaining the
Xianbo Li, Kunpei Xu
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Implikatur dalam Lawakan Komika Abdur pada Acara Stand Up Comedy

Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2020
ABSTRAK  Lawakan komika Abdur pada acara Stand Up Comedy tersebut mengandung implikatur. Kajian pragmatik mengenai implikatur dalam lawakan komika Abdur pada acara Stand Up Comedy di dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teori Grice dengan adanya 2 jenis ...
Elsya Rahmi, Tressyalina Tressyalina
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Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes

Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 657-680, November 2025.
This article examines categorizational asymmetries observable in the attempted production and negotiation of a “policeable” scene. The case described in the article—an encounter between a police officer and a black male student treated as “out of place”—demonstrates how members accomplish, negotiate, and resist categorial “statuses” and associated ...
Robin James Smith
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Implication of Humor in Human Conversations: Seeing from Pragmatics Point of View

Journal of English Language Teaching and Literature, 2020
Pragmatics can be defined as a branch of linguistics that studies deiksis, presupposition, discourse analysis and conversational implicature. Implicature can be interpreted as a hidden intention behind the speech.
Kristina Gultom, Suci Chairunnisa, Risma Sari, Ega Sauly Sitio   +3 more
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Sorries seem to have the harder words

British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 757-769, November 2025.
Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
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IMPLICATURE IN JOHN GREEN’S THE FAULT OF OUR STARS

JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2015
Discourses on revealing meanings in utterances are widely discussed in some fields of linguistics, semantics, presupposition, and implicature. This study is an example of how implicature is employed in a novel, which is a depiction of real life ...
Dheril Sofia Nanda
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Rethinking Social Language Learning and Politeness in Autism: Key Insights for English Language Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk, Hakan Demiröz   +1 more
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Inference Claims as Assertions

Informal Logic, 2021
When a speaker states an argument in arguing—in its core sense—for the conclusion, the speaker asserts, as opposed to merely implies or implicates, the associated inference claim to the effect that the conclusion follows from the premises.
Matthew William Mckeon
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