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Knowledge, intuition and implicature
Synthese, 2017Moderate pragmatic invariantism (MPI) is a proposal to explain why our intuitions about the truth-value of knowledge claims vary with stakes and salient error-possibilities. The basic idea is that this variation is due to a variation not in the propositions expressed (as epistemic contextualists would have it) but in the propositions conversationally ...
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Numerals and scalar implicatures
2011In this paper we explore the relation between the meaning of number denoting determiners (‘numerals’) and the polarity of the context in which they occur. We claim that when numerals are embedded in positive (i.e. Upward Entailing) contexts they are given an upper bounded (‘exactly’) reading more often than when they are embedded in minimally different
Panizza D., Chierchia G.
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Classical Planning and Causal Implicatures
2011In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager (called Frolog) which uses classical planning to infer causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature, a highly context dependent form of inference. As we shall see, causal implicatures are important for understanding the structure of task-oriented dialogues.
Luciana Benotti, Patrick Blackburn
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Presupposition and implicature: Varieties of implicit meaning in explicitation practices
Journal of Pragmatics, 2021Marina Sbisa'
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2015
This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes a fresh look at the issues involved that redresses the
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This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes a fresh look at the issues involved that redresses the
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Pragmatic tolerance: Implications for the acquisition of informativeness and implicature
Cognition, 2011Dorothy Bishop, Napoleon Katsos
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The co-constitution of politeness implicature in conversation
Journal of Pragmatics, 2007Michael Haugh
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