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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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Entailed conversational implicatures

Synthese
Abstract Many philosophers and linguists agree that there are two kinds of conversational implicatures: there are not only the well-known paradigm examples of conversational implicatures that are not entailed by the sentences that are used to bring them about; there are also less-often discussed conversational implicatures that are entailed ...
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Conversational Implicature and Politeness Principles in Sumbawanese Daily Conversations

Jurnal Kependidikan, 2017
This study investigated convesational implicatures and politeness principles in Sumbawanese daily conversations. This study concerned on examining several forms of violation in each maxim of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle.
Erlin Pebriantika
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Conversational Implicatures: Modelling Relevance Theory Probabilistically

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
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Fictional Sentences and the Pragmatic Defence of Direct Reference Theories

Studia Semiotyczne, 2020
DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxiii2.09 According to Adams and his colleagues, fictional sentences, i.e. sentences featuring fictional names, lack any truth value.
Tomasz Puczyłowski
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Editorial: Psychological and neurocognitive mechanisms of presupposition processing in speech and language processing. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Zhou X, Jiang X, Tan Y.
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Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan, Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady   +1 more
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Speech Act Theory and the Study of Argumentation

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014
:In this paper, the influence of speech act theory and Grice’s the- ory of conversational implicature on the study of argumentation is discussed. First, the role that pragmatic insights play in van Eemeren and Grootendorst’s pragma-dialectical theory of ...
Henkemans A. Francisca Snoeck
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Mutual entailment between causation and responsibility. [PDF]

Philos Stud, 2023
Sytsma J, Willemsen P, Reuter K.
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