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Public service announcements (PSAs) are the official way for governments to inform, educate and change public behaviour in order to reduce public health issues, such as Covid-19.
Susan Marbun +2 more
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Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge
The present paper argues that there is a knowledge norm for conversational implicature: one may conversationally implicate p only if one knows p. Linguistic data about the cancellation behavior of implicatures and the ways they are challenged and ...
Eliran Haziza
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Linking Hypothesis and Number of Response Options Modulate Inferred Scalar Implicature Rate
The past 15 years have seen increasing experimental investigations of core pragmatic questions in the ever more active and lively field of experimental pragmatics.
Masoud Jasbi +2 more
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Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review [PDF]
Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of testing techniques, logical terms, populations, and languages.
Ahmed Khorsheed +2 more
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Investigating the Importance of Conversational Implicature and Violation of Maxims in Daily Conversations [PDF]
According to linguistic theory, conversational Implicature (CI) is the original intent of the speech expressed by a speaker. The assumption is that both the speaker and the receiver understand and respect the communication rules.
Osman Rabaab Elmahady Musa +2 more
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Scalar Implicature is Sensitive to Contextual Alternatives. [PDF]
The quantifier “some” often elicits a scalar implicature during comprehension: “Some of today's letters have checks inside” is often interpreted to mean that not all of today's letters have checks inside.
Zhang Z +4 more
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Conversational Implicature Analysis in “Kingdom of Heaven” Movie Script by William Monahan
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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This study was aimed at finding analysis of conversational implicature in a drama “the bear” by Anton Chekhov and its application in English language teaching". This research was conducted in a descriptive qualitative method.
Hendra Suryadi, Muslim Muslim
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Some Pieces Are Missing: Implicature Production in Children
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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Are Natural Language Inference Models IMPPRESsive? Learning IMPlicature and PRESupposition [PDF]
Natural language inference (NLI) is an increasingly important task for natural language understanding, which requires one to infer whether a sentence entails another.
Paloma Jeretic +3 more
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