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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Language and CognitionPragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini +2 more
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THE NON-ENGLISH LECTURERS’ READING COMPETENCE IN READING ENGLISH TEXT AT HIGHER EDUCATION IN CENTRAL JAVA [PDF]
, 2016 Nowadays, the government offers a lot of scholarships to non-English lecturers to study abroad. However, only a few that could get the scholarship due to their inability to communicate in English or to comprehend English texts. In this paper, therefore,
Sophia B , Th. Cicik +2 more
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Experimental Pragmatism in the Third Globalization
Contemporary Pragmatism, 2012 Pragmatism dominates contemporary legal thought, but knowing this isn't knowing so much. Legal pragmatism means different things to different people, and as this essay argues, minimalist and experimentalist forms of regulation both share a broadly pragmatic sensibility about law and democracy.
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Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and coastal Spanish [PDF]
, 2008 Book synopsis: This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation ...
Placencia, Maria Elena
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Pragmatic and cognitive accounts of figurative language posit a difference between metaphor and metonymy in terms of underlying conceptual operations. Recently, other pragmatic uses of words have been accounted for in the Relevance Theory framework, such
Valentina eBambini +3 more
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Context Dependence, MOPs,WHIMs and procedures Recanati and Kaplan on Cognitive Aspects in Semantics [PDF]
, 2015 After presenting Kripke’s criticism to Frege’s ideas on context dependence of thoughts, I present two recent attempts of considering cognitive aspects of context dependent expressions inside a truth conditional pragmatics or semantics: Recanati’s non ...
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LanguagesThis study investigates the cognitive processing of Spanish idioms from a pragmatic perspective, with the goal of examining the idiom superiority effect.
Pilar Valero Fernández +4 more
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If Metrical Structure Were Not Dynamical, Counterfactuals in General Relativity Would Be Easy [PDF]
, 2014 General relativity poses serious problems for counterfactual propositions peculiar to it as a physical theory. Because these problems arise solely from the dynamical nature of spacetime geometry, they are shared by all schools of thought on how ...
Curiel, Erik
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Context-aware Captions from Context-agnostic Supervision
, 2017 We introduce an inference technique to produce discriminative context-aware image captions (captions that describe differences between images or visual concepts) using only generic context-agnostic training data (captions that describe a concept or an ...
Bengio, Samy +4 more
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Discourse Construction Mechanisms: An Eye-Tracking Study on L1, L2, and Heritage Speakers of Spanish
LanguagesThis study explores the cognitive processing of discourse construction mechanisms in Spanish, focusing on counter-argumentative relations that involve anaphoric encapsulation through either pronominal (e.g., a pesar de ello) or lexical forms (e.g., a ...
Adriana Cruz +4 more
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