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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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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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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
Asa Kasher, Nachum Soroker
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Conversational implicatures in English dialogue: Annotated dataset

Procedia Computer Science, 2020
Elizabeth Jasmi George
exaly  

Imaginative resistance and conversational implicature

2010
Abstract: We experience resistance when we are engaging with fictional works which present certain (for example, morally objectionable) claims. But in virtue of what properties do sentences trigger this imaginative resistance? I argue that while most accounts of imaginative resistance have looked for semantic properties in virtue of which sentences ...
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Taking the epistemic step: Toward a model of on-line access to conversational implicatures

Cognition, 2013
Richard Breheny, Heather J Ferguson, Napoleon Katsos   +2 more
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Conversational implicature

1996
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AGAINST CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

Journal of Semantics, 1982
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The cancellability test for conversational implicatures

Philosophy Compass, 2018
Julia Zakkou
exaly