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The determination of what is said and what is implied

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
wiley   +1 more source

Implication of Humor in Human Conversations: Seeing from Pragmatics Point of View

Journal of English Language Teaching and Literature, 2020
Pragmatics can be defined as a branch of linguistics that studies deiksis, presupposition, discourse analysis and conversational implicature. Implicature can be interpreted as a hidden intention behind the speech.
Kristina Gultom, Suci Chairunnisa, Risma Sari, Ega Sauly Sitio   +3 more
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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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Genre and Conversation

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Intentionalism, anti‐Intentionalism and conversational interaction

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
wiley   +1 more source

Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
wiley   +1 more source

Sentiment Analysis of Conversational Implicature: A Computational Pragmatics Approach

Applied Artificial Intelligence
The process of inferring the intention of conversational implicatures involves the interpretation of the speaker’s sentiment. However, the relationship between implicatures and sentiments has not been clear enough, and there is no research explaining the
Xianbo Li, Kunpei Xu
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A Linguistic Analysis of the Theme of Racism Represented in Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us '' [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm
This study explores Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us ''. It aims to reveal the function of the pragmatic features of the song.
Jihad Shaban Wahba
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The computational complexity of avoiding conversational implicatures [PDF]

Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1990
Referring expressions and other object descriptions should be maximal under the Local Brevity, No Unnecessary Components, and Lexical Preference preference rules; otherwise, they may lead hearers to infer unwanted conversational implicatures. These preference rules can be incorporated into a polynomial time generation algorithm, while some alternative ...
openaire   +1 more source

Visual Components to Interpretation—Formal Approaches to Visible Meaning

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT Visual components of communication interact with the core linguistic system at all levels and make an important contribution to the meaning of the utterance expressed. This does not only apply to sign languages, which exclusively rely on the visual channel, but also co‐speech gestures and emojis, which are visual means that accompany and ...
Cornelia Ebert, Emar Maier, Markus Steinbach   +2 more
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