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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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Conversational implicatures in indirect replies [PDF]

Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1992
In this paper we present algorithms for the interpretation and generation of a kind of particularized conversational implicature occurring in certain indirect replies. Our algorithms make use of discourse expectations, discourse plans, and discourse relations. The algorithms calculate implicatures of discourse units of one or more sentences.
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
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Provocative insinuations

Daimon, 2021
In this paper we analyse utterances that, without explicitly constituting hate speech, nevertheless convey a hateful message. For example, in the headline ‘Iraqi Refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl’, the presence of ...
Álvaro Domínguez Armas, Andres Soria Ruiz   +1 more
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IMPLIKATUR PERCAKAPAN ANAK USIA 7 TAHUN DALAM KEGIATAN ANAK DAN ORANG TUA PADA KONTAK INTERPERSONAL

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Conversational implicatures are hidden expressions of intent that can occur in various speech situations, one of which is in interpersonal contact between children and parents.
Ririn Tria Piani, Sumarti Sumarti, Siti Samhati, Nurlaksana Eko Rusminto, Mulyanto Widodo   +4 more
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Implikatur Percakapan dalam Film Nihonjin No Shiranai Nihongo

Humaniora, 2014
Speech acts learns about the relationship between speaker and hearer. It needs good cooperation between speaker and hearer so that communication can run well. A speech has implicatures depending on what is heard by the hearer.
Timur Sri Astami
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Conversational implicature: a diachronic cognitive pragmatic approach

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study conducts a corpus-based diachronic investigation of the noun phrase hóngyǎn (红眼) and proposes the diachronic cognitive pragmatic model to demonstrate that particularized conversational implicatures develop into generalized conversational ...
Ruili Su, Yanfei Zhang
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The Effect of Interventionist Instructions of English Conversational Implicatures on Iranian EFL Intermediate Level Learners’ Pragmatic Competence Development

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, Ali Akbar Jabbari, Mohammad Hasan Razmi   +2 more
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Conversational Implicature Of Women’s Language By Shin Tanokura In Drama Series Of Oshin

Izumi, 2021
This study aims to describe the conversational implicature of women’s language by Shin Tanokura in the drama series of Oshin. Research-based on a theory of  Azuma (2009) for implicature as women’s language and Yule (2006) for conversational implicature ...
Eko Kurniawan, Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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