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British Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how change becomes possible in couple discourse within psychoanalytic couple therapy. It proposes “couple discourse” as a clinical and theoretical concept for listening to the ways partners signify, project and transform experience together.
Keren Cohen
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Visual metaphor in commercial ad: effectiveness or failure?
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2021 Based on the modern approaches to the study of multimodal pragmatics, this study focuses on its new facet, identifying the correlation between cognitive and pragmatic features of visual metaphor with reference to visual grammatical analysis and Optimal ...
Natalya Kravchenko, Oleksandr Yudenko
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Conversational Implicature of Peanuts Comic Strip Based on Grice’s Maxim Theory
Humaniora, 2013 This article discusses about conversational implicature that occurs in Peanuts comic strips. The objectives of this study are to find out the implied meaning in the conversation between Charlie Brown with Lucy van Pelt and Lucy van Pelt with Linus van ...
Muhartoyo Muhartoyo, Sistofa Sistofa
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
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Obligatory implicatures and grammaticality
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2011 The paper explores some puzzling data on agreement with disjunctive noun phrases in Russian. I show that the data can be nicely explained by the theory of implicatures. The proposed analysis raises a more general question, namely whether scalar implicatures of a sentence can ever lead to ungrammaticality.
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The determination of what is said and what is implied
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Is what is said determined by syntax, conventional meaning, and select aspects of context? This thesis—semanticity—seems plausible because what is said can diverge from both what the speaker means and what the addressee understands, and because ordinary speakers know what is said when presented with a novel sentence‐context pair.
Victor Tamburini
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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Grice’s Theory of Implicature in the Philosophy of the Cosmos [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2019 The article is devoted to the problem of communication between the earthly and unearthly mind. The authors contrasted Grice’s theory of implicature with the Philosophy of the Cosmos.
Yuliya Fedorova, Nataliya Salnikova
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Intentionalism, anti‐Intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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