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Implicature and Speech Act Analysis in Erbil City Courtroom Discourse

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study investigates the use of implicature and speech acts in Erbil City courtroom. Implicature is the implied meaning in addition to literal meaning of expressions, while speech acts are communicative actions such as asserting, commanding, or ...
Gala Qasim Hasan, Dilovan Sayfuddin Saady   +1 more
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Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
Experimental evidence on embedded implicatures by Chemla (2009b) and Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a) has fewer theoretical consequences than assumed: On the one hand, the evidence successfully argues against obligatory local implicature computation, which ...
Uli Sauerland
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Objectionable thick concepts in denials [PDF]

, 2009
So-called "thick" moral concepts are distinctive in that they somehow "hold together" evaluation and description. But how? This paper argues against the standard view that the evaluations which thick concepts may be used to convey belong to sense or ...
Väyrynen, Pekka
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IMPLICATURE IN JOHN GREEN’S THE FAULT OF OUR STARS

JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies), 2015
Discourses on revealing meanings in utterances are widely discussed in some fields of linguistics, semantics, presupposition, and implicature. This study is an example of how implicature is employed in a novel, which is a depiction of real life ...
Dheril Sofia Nanda
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Conventional Implicature in Patient Package Inserts

Prasasti: Journal of Linguistics, 2016
The study aims to investigate the legal aspects and the informative aspects, especially the conventional implicature of patient package inserts. Eighty five patient package inserts were collected from licensed drugstores in Surakarta and the surroundings
Ruben Dharmawan
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Conversational implicature comprehension strategies used by English learners in Indonesia

, 2019
Pratama, Hendi, Fathur Rokhman, and Sri Rejeki Urip. 2019. Conversational implicature comprehension strategies used by English learners in Indonesia. Linguistic Research 36(3), 415-458.
Hendi Pratama, F. Rokhman, S. Urip
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It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures

, 2013
In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g.
Whiting, Daniel
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Analysing Inference

Nordicom Review, 2006
In the article “Analyse inference - and ethos-implicature in particular” I discuss and define the notions of inference, presuppositions, premises and implicature as notions of what sort of information texts carry between the lines, i.e.
Roksvold Thore
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Conversational Implicature in theatrical texts

, 2023
Kalthum Kh., Azad A., Azad A.
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The how and why of syntactic relations [PDF]

, 2010
Human communication takes place when one person does something that when seen or heard by another person is taken to be done with the intention to communicate, and the other person, having seen the communicator show his or her intention to communicate ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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