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SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN CONVERSATIONS AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS
ELT 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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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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Filosofia 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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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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Implicatures of modified numerals: quantity or quality? [PDF]
, 2017 We propose a new analysis of modified numerals that allows us to: (i) predict ignorance with respect to the prejacent of at least (and thereby avoid to Bernard Schwarz's recent criticism of Coppock and Brochhagen 2013), (ii) get a three-way contrast ...
Ciardelli, Ivano +2 more
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What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis [PDF]
, 2014 The paper investigates the problems related to futurity and modality in modern Greek. The discussion of Greek temporal future expressions is conducted with reference to relevant literature from the areas of English linguistics, cognitive studies and ...
Chiou, Michael
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Homogeneity or implicature: An experimental investigation of free choice
, 2019 A sentence containing disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal, such as Angie is allowed to buy the boat or the car , gives rise to the FREE CHOICE inference that Angie can freely choose between the two.
Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli
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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, A. Benz
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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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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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