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Conventions in the interpretation process of conversational implicatures
, 2014 This article is an attempt to characterize the conventions employed in the interpreting of conversational implicatures. The main objective is to justify the hypothesis that language utterers confronted with conversational implicatures not only use ...
Prasalski, Dariusz
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, 2015 The theory of conversational implicature originates from Gricean pragmatics, involving concepts of the cooperative principle, maxims of conversation and their properties, to generalized and particularized implicatures, among others. The theory’s originator, Paul Grice, delivered his ideas at the William James lectures at Harvard University in 1967 ...
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-9, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
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Conversational Implicatures Analyses in Johnny English Strikes Again [PDF]
, 2019 This study mainly discusses conversational implicatures in a movie that is considered as one of the audio-visual media which is one of the favorite media nowadays.
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Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?
Topoi, 2023 AbstractI argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos 57(4):1-28, 2016) and Belleri (Philos Stud 174(9):2211–2226, 2017), has been most recently fleshed out by Mankowitz (Synthese 199:5603–5622, 2021).
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 488-497, February 2026.ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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Conversational implicatures used by stepmother character in Cinderella movie 2015 [PDF]
, 2016 INDONESIA: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis implikatur percakapan yang dihasilkan dari ketaatan maksim yang dilakukan oleh tokoh dalam film Cinderella 2015.
Maghfuro, Siti Ilifdiani
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Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 261-271, Summer 2026.
Anna Klieber
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