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Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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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What are particularistic pejoratives?

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Conversational Implicatures: Modelling Relevance Theory Probabilistically

CoRR
Recent advances in Bayesian probability theory and its application to cognitive science in combination with the development of a new generation of computational tools and methods for probabilistic computation have led to a 'probabilistic turn' in pragmatics and semantics.
Unger, Christoph, Buschmeier, Hendrik
openaire   +2 more sources

Silent Dogwhistles

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 261-271, Summer 2026.
Anna Klieber
wiley   +1 more source

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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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

Language and Cognition
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous   +2 more
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Is the FCI Effective as the Police Strategy in Interrogation?

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature
The politeness, dignity, serenity, and tranquillity should be reflected by the investigator without violence during the interrogation process. This study aims to identify the Forensic Conversational Implicature (FCI) found in a police interrogation of a 
Nadhirah Muthi'ah, Eddy Setia, Rahmadsyah Rangkuti   +2 more
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