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Not knowing a cat is a cat: analyticity and knowledge ascriptions [PDF]

, 2015
It is a natural assumption in mainstream epistemological theory that ascriptions of knowledge of a proposition p track strength of epistemic position vis-à-vis p.
Carter, J. Adam, Peterson, Martin, van Bezooijen, Bart   +2 more
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Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Presupposition and it’s relation to Entailment, Conversational Implicature and Iqtidā

قضايا 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
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Social Language Learning and Politeness in Autism: Key Insights for English Language Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2336-2347, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face challenges in pragmatic language use, particularly in foreign language learning contexts, yet the specific factors influencing pragmatic competence in these environments remain underexplored.
Gülşah Tıkız‐Ertürk, Hakan Demiröz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational implicatures [PDF]

Proceedings 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.
openaire   +1 more source

THE IMPLICATURE AND VIOLATION OF MAXIMS IN INDONESIAN ADVERTISEMENTS [PDF]

, 2012
We all know that advertising is a business in which language is used to persuade people to do things (e.g., buy some product) and / or believe things (believing that the value of the product is trustworthy or a good one).
Ahsanu , Muhamad
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Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory [PDF]

, 2001
The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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Adjectival scales and three types of implicature

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2018
In this work, we explore the relationship between three different inferencestriggered by gradable adjectives. In particular, we look at scalar implicature andtwo competing inferences occuring under negation - scale reversal (indirect scalarimplicature ...
Nicole Gotzner, S. Solt, Anton Benz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Insecurity in Implicature as Found in Taylor Swift’s Midnights

Prasasti: 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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Analysis of the Conversational Implicature of Dialogues in Before Sunrise from the Perspective of Violation of the Cooperative Principle

, 2023
Yanling Gong
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