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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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When mental states matter

Filosofie Dnes
In this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matej Drobňák
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Pragmatic Competence in Learning Romanian as a Foreign Language: A Case-Study Analysis of Students’ Interpretation of Conversational Implicatures

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
This study examines how international students of Romanian as a foreign language interpret conversational implicatures, with the aim of assessing their developing pragmatic competence.
Gabriel-Dan Bărbuleț, Andra-Iulia Ursa
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Individuality without Identity

Filosofie Dnes
In this paper I discuss a common ambiguity in the specification of the content of implicatures either in terms of mental states “BELS(ψ)” or in terms of simple propositions “ψ”.
Matěj Veselský
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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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A Pragmatic Analysis of Conversational Implicatures in English Drama and their Role in Teaching Critical Literacy

This study aims to explore the role of conversational implicatures in English drama in developing students’ critical literacy. It identified conversational implicatures conveyed by characters of the selected drama texts, provided possible interpretations
Nkurunziza, Bonaventure, Habyarimana, Hilaire, Ngoboka, Jean Paul   +2 more
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The Analysis of Conversational Implicatures and Directness Level of Politeness in Comic Strips

, 2017
In this research paper, the writer intends to analyze the conversational implicatures and directness level of politeness in comic strips. The data are taken randomly from Art&Chip Sansom’s The Born Loser comic strips published in The Jakarta Post ...
Jaufillaili, Jaufillaili
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THE COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF AVOIDING CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES

, 2008
Referring expressions and other object descriptions should be maximal under the Local Brevity, No Unnecessary Components, and Lexical Preference preference rules; otherwise, they may lead hearers to infer unwanted conversational implicatures.

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STUDENTS’ ANALYSIS ON CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES OF CIAYUMAJAKUNING DRAMA SCRIPTS

, 2019
Pragmatics is added into the new curriculum of English Education Department. Pragmatics deals with hidden meaning (Wray et al, 1998). Grice’s theory of Cooperative Principle and Maxims are a common study in Pragmatics.
Jaufillaili, Jaufillaili, Mahmud, Mahmud
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Constructions, pragmatics and modality [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2013
This paper rejects the commonplace view that the semantics of certain modal deverbal adjectives (MDAs), which have traditionally been assumed to be non-compositional, require complex lexical or syntactic encoding (cf. e.g.
Antonio Fortin
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