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Conversational Implicatures and Legal Texts

Ratio Juris, 2015
AbstractLegal texts are often given interpretations that deviate from their literal meanings. While legal concerns often motivate these interpretations, others can be traced to linguistic phenomena. This paper argues that systematicities of language usage, captured by certain theories of conversational implicature, can sometimes explain why the ...
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The Semantic Reading and Conversational Implicature

1996
The pragmatic notion of conversational implicature is in an important respect similar to the notion of deixis, in the sense that the notion is motivated by features of language use for which the traditional semantic techniques cannot account. The problem is that the uses of linguistic expressions often convey more information than is expressed by their
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Grice, Conversational Implicature and Philosophy

2013
The importance of Grice’s theory of conversation and in particular his account of conversational implicature (Grice in Studies in the way of words. Harvard University Press, Harvard, pp. 22–40, 1975; 1978) in the development and current concerns of pragmatics is almost impossible to exaggerate.
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A Tool for Extracting Conversational Implicatures

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2012
Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan
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Calculability, Convention, and Conversational Implicature

2018
I applaud the arguments in Lepore and Stone (2015) that Gricean, Neo-Gricean, and Relevance theories of conversational implicature and utterance interpretation are deeply flawed because the additional meanings speakers convey when using sentences are conventional rather than calculable. I then go on to rebut several conclusions Lepore and Stone endorse
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Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory

2003
According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like (1981) and (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles. In this paper I want to argue that (i) there are major problems for reducing Gricean pragmatics to these two principles, and ...
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Particularized conversational implicatures and miraculous communication

Language Sciences, 2021
Charles Lassiter
exaly  

Effects of peer collaboration on EFL learners’ comprehension of conversational implicatures

System, 2021
Ming-Fang Lin
exaly  

Conversational Implicature and Communication Disorders

When we speak, we often convey more than what we literally say, enriching our message with implicit content. We also provide cues to our listeners or readers to derive inferences from what we say. To exemplify, consider the conversation in (1), in which a teacher asks their students about their homework, which comprised exercises on pages 41 and 43: (1)
Foppolo, F, Mazzaggio, G
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Effects of Right- and Left-Hemisphere Damage on Understanding Conversational Implicatures

Brain and Language, 1999
Nachum Soroker, Asa Kasher
exaly