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in defense of a presuppositional account of slurs [PDF]

, 2015
In the last fifteen years philosophers and linguists have turned their attention to slurs: derogatory expressions that target certain groups on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality and so on.
Cepollaro, Bianca
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Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures [PDF]

Organon F
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”
Matej Drobňák
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Implicatures Found in Conversations Done by the Main Characters of the Ice Age 4 Movie [PDF]

, 2013
Cartoon movie is a funny entertainment which has a story line like a reallife. People like this kind of movie because it is supported by motion and soundeffect so they need less effort to enjoy it.
LEATEMIA, M. (MAYA)
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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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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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A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF MUSTOFA BISRI’S POEM “SIAPAMENYURUH?” [PDF]

, 2012
This article presents an interpretive study of “Siapa Menyuruh?”, a poem by Indonesia’s contemporary poet Mustofa Bisri. The study is carried out within the framework of Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory (RT), which is based on the principles that ...
Candria, Mytha
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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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It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures

, 2013
In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g.
Whiting, Daniel
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Unraveling Conversational Implicatures: A Study on Arabic EFL Learners

Open Cultural Studies
The present research aimed to evaluate the comprehension level of conversational implicature among a group of 30 senior Native Arabic-speaking students enrolled in the BA program of English Language and Literature at a UAE university.
Rabab’ah Ghaleb, Cheikh Mariam, Al-Deaibes Mutasim   +2 more
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Is Semantics Really Psychologically Real? [PDF]

, 2009
The starting point for this paper is a critical discussion of claims of psychological reality articulated within Borg’s (forth.) minimal semantics and Carpintero’s (2007) character*-semantics.
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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