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Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015 This paper analyses Cignetti & di Giuseppe’s “Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction” and discusses whether explicit instruction can improve EFL learners’ understanding of implicit meaning.
Marta Genís Pedra
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Assertion, Lying, and Untruthfully Implicating [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter explores the prospects for justifying the somewhat widespread, somewhat firmly held sense that there is some moral advantage to untruthfully implicating over lying. I call this the "Difference Intuition." I define lying in terms of asserting,
Pepp, Jessica
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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 ...
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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
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Sentiment Analysis of Conversational Implicature: A Computational Pragmatics Approach
Applied Artificial IntelligenceThe 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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‘Ought Implies Can’: Not So Pragmatic After All [PDF]
, 2017 Those who want to deny the ‘ought implies can’ principle often turn to weakened views to explain ‘ought implies can’ phenomena. The two most common versions of such views are that ‘ought’ presupposes ‘can’, and that ‘ought’ conversationally implicates ...
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Contrast and the structure of discourse
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 The semantics of the coordinator but does not fit neatly into the traditional distinction between entailments and conversational implicatures. In its counterexpectational use, but can convey an implication relating its two conjuncts, which Grice (1975 ...
Maziar Toosarvandani
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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The construction of cooperative and inferential meaning by children with Asperger syndrome
Topics in Linguistics, 2019 This study aims to apply the Gricean theory of conversational cooperation to the example of inferential meaning in the oral speech of children with pragmatic deficit. Firstly, the analysis pays attention to the use of tropic inferences and particularized
Rodríguez Muñoz Francisco J.
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