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Conversational Implicature in MATA NAJWA Talk Show [PDF]
, 2020 Conversational Implicature in MATA NAJWA Talk ...
Mohamad Jazeri, 196912042005011005
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-9, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
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Problems connected with the notion of implicature [PDF]
As the title suggests, the primary concern of this study is with problems arising from a very widely used notion in the recent literature of linguistics and philosophy, the notion of implicature.
Koutoupis-Kitis, Elizabeth
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, 2015 The theory of conversational implicature originates from Gricean pragmatics, involving concepts of the cooperative principle, maxims of conversation and their properties, to generalized and particularized implicatures, among others. The theory’s originator, Paul Grice, delivered his ideas at the William James lectures at Harvard University in 1967 ...
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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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 +3 more
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 488-497, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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Conversational implicature found in Thea Sharrock's "Me Before You" movie [PDF]
, 2018 This research discusses conversational implicature that used by the main characters in the Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You Movie. The aims of this research are to find out the types of the conversational implicature that used by the main characters in the ...
Rohmah, Cicik Nur
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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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