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The relationships between students’ comprehension of conversational implicatures and their achievement in reading comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The most important thing in effective communication is understanding not only what is said, but also why it is said. Therefore, the development of pragmatic competence in another language is essential to be able to communicate effectively.
Safiye Çiftlikli, Özcan Demirel
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The Effect of Interventionist Instructions of English Conversational Implicatures on Iranian EFL Intermediate Level Learners’ Pragmatic Competence Development [PDF]
Cogent Education, 2020 Over recent years, pragmatic knowledge has been a major area of interest within the field of second language acquisition. Despite this, most studies available in the literature have only focused on testing and analyzing L2 learners’ knowledge of speech ...
Shamila Ziashahabi +2 more
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Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela +1 more
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Context in Generalized Conversational Implicatures: the case of some [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 There is now general agreement about the optionality of scalar implicatures: the pragmatic interpretation will be accessed depending on the context relative to which the utterance is interpreted.
Ludivine Emma Dupuy +3 more
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Synthese, 2021 How should we account for the contextual variability of knowledge claims? Many philosophers favour an invariantist account on which such contextual variability is due entirely to pragmatic factors, leaving no interesting context-sensitivity in the ...
Kindermann D.
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Saying (Nothing) and Conversational Implicatures
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2023 AbstractI defend an alternative theory of conversational implicatures that does without Grice's notion of making‐as‐if‐to‐say. This theory characterises conversationally implicating thatpas a way to mean thatpby saying thatqor by saying nothing. Cases that Grice's theory cannot capture are captured, and cases that Grice's theory misdescribes are ...
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Two Kinds of Conversational Implicatures
ErkenntnisAbstract This paper discusses the underexplored distinction between additive and substitutional conversational implicatures. The focus of the paper is on the question of how to define the distinction. The paper argues that existing characterizations of the distinction classify some implicatures as substitutional that are in an intuitive sense
Lukas Lewerentz
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Entailed conversational implicatures
SynthÈseAbstract Many philosophers and linguists agree that there are two kinds of conversational implicatures: there are not only the well-known paradigm examples of conversational implicatures that are not entailed by the sentences that are used to bring them about; there are also less-often discussed conversational implicatures that are entailed ...
Julia Zakkou
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Conversational Implicature in SMS Discourse
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2015 The paper analyzes the characteristics, functions and markers of conversational implicatures in SMS discourse. The first part of the article introduces: (1) the basic mechanisms of successful transmission of conversational implicatures in interpersonal ...
Virna Karlić
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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 ...
Brian G. Slocum
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