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The Role of Inference in Diachronic Change in Conversational Implicature

Behavioral Sciences
This study conducts a case study of liǎnhóng (脸红) to examine how inference works in the diachronic change in conversational implicature. It proposes three types of inference, namely ad hoc inference, entrenched inference, and conventionalized inference ...
Jiayu Han, Yanfei Zhang
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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 in Montague Grammar

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2014
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp.
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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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What is said, what is implicated, what is implicated

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008
The present paper, which takes Bach’s (1994) distinction between ‘what is said’, ‘implicature’, and ‘impliciture’ as a starting point, shows that Grice’s tests of non-detachability and cancellability are able to clarify the distinction among different ...
Diana Ioniţă
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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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Two Kinds of Conversational Implicatures

Erkenntnis
Abstract This paper discusses the underexplored distinction between additive and substitutional conversational implicatures. The focus of the paper is on the question of how to define the distinction. The paper argues that existing characterizations of the distinction classify some implicatures as substitutional that are in an ...
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Conversational Implicatures of Short Story in the Newspaper

English Education Journal: Jurnal Pengembangan Pendidikan dan Pengembangan Pengajaran Bahasa
Humans communicate using language, a medium that facilitates understanding in conversations, allowing individuals to connect and share information. This form of communication has evolved over time as people have interacted and engaged with one another ...
Wiwien Pratiwi Harsa
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Generalized conversational implicature

, 2010
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Conversational implicature: a diachronic cognitive pragmatic approach

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study conducts a corpus-based diachronic investigation of the noun phrase hóngyǎn (红眼) and proposes the diachronic cognitive pragmatic model to demonstrate that particularized conversational implicatures develop into generalized conversational ...
Ruili Su, Yanfei Zhang
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