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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.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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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
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The role of focus intonation in implicature computation: a comparison with only and also
Natural Language Semantics, 2019 The function of focus is to activate alternatives, and these activated alternatives are used to compute the corresponding inferences of an utterance.
Nicole Gotzner
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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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The Analysis of Conversational Implicature in an Extensive Listening of BBC Learning English Podcast
Starting AI Researchers' Symposium, 2020 Using qualitative content analysis, this study attempts to investigate the occurrence of conversational implicature in an extensive listening of BBC Learning English Podcast. This study was conducted to find out how conversational implicature is employed
Retno Dwiwulandari, Ratna Dewanti
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What are particularistic pejoratives?
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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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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Types of Implicature in Informal Conversations Used by the English Education Study Program Students [PDF]
, 2016 Implicature was refers to implied meaning in utterance that can be understood by indirectly expression. In informal conversation was occurred the hidden meaning of what actually said by the speakers.
Rahayu, E. S. (Endry) +1 more
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Simple sentences, substitutions, and mistaken evaluations [PDF]
, 2002 Many competent speakers initially judge that (i) is true and (ii) is false, though they know that (iii) is true. (i) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Clark Kent. (ii) Superman leaps more tall buildings than Superman.
Braun, D., Saul, J.M.
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Conversational Implicature in Beauty and Beast Movie Directed by Bill Condon
, 2020 The objective of this research is to find out and analyze the types of conversational implicature and the maxim violation in Beauty and the Beast movie. Beauty and the Beast movie was directed by Bill Condon and released in 2017.
Sayyid Khairunas +3 more
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