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Inference and Implicature

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter covers the notions of inference and implicature from a broad pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective. Starting from the fact that inference has wide applicability also in psychology and logic, while implicature is limited only to pragmatics, it opens by drawing three distinctions: (1) between inference in a broad and in a narrow sense, (2)
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The role of Gricean determinacy and the strength condition in the relevance theory for interpreting implicatures

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2019
The notion of implicature has been a matter of discussion since Grice put it forward. He proposed a schema to explain how implicatures are generated and inferred, but the key condition it contains has been surprisingly overlooked.
Miquel Company
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains

open access: yesGlossa
The present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko   +2 more
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Until at least 4 years of age, children, unlike adults, interpret some as compatible with all. The inability to draw the pragmatic inference leading to interpret some as not all, could be taken to indicate a delay in pragmatic abilities, despite evidence
Sarah F. V. Eiteljoerge   +4 more
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SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN CONVERSATIONS AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2018
Social contexts play important roles in the conversations.  The speakers need to always refer to those contexts when conversing.  Moreover, conversations do not only contain literal meanings but also meanings beyond the utterances.
Aldha Williyan
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Pragmatic 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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Conversational Implicature Analysis in “Kingdom of Heaven” Movie Script by William Monahan

open access: yesBuletin Al-Turas, 2020
This study was designed to discover the types of conversational implicature and the non-observance maxim of cooperative principles expressed by the characters in the Kingdom of Heaven movie script by William Monahan.
Saiful Akmal, Desy Ulfa Yana
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Conversational implicatures [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue -, 2001
According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of Grice's (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like Atlas & Levinson (1981) and Horn (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles.
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Presupposition and it’s relation to Entailment, Conversational Implicature and Iqtidā

open access: yesقضايا لغوية
This study focuses on presupposition, a linguistic phenomenon that holds utmost importance in communication. In addition, it analyses three other linguistic phenomena that are closely related to presupposition:entailment, conversational implicature ...
IBRAHIM ABDULLAH SULAIMAN
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Insecurity in Implicature as Found in Taylor Swift’s Midnights

open access: yesPrasasti: Journal of Linguistics
People must have insecurities. In expressing the insecurities, they have their own ways, either in explicit or implicit ways. When people implicitly express their insecurities, they flout Grice’s four maxims, which generate implicature.
Imaduddin Hanif, Wildi Adila
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