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Conversational Implicture in Inception Movie Dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study dealt with Conversational Implicature in Inception Movie Dialogue. The objectives of this study were to find out the most dominant types of Conversational Implicature and the meaning of each implicature.
Sigalingging, H. N. (Handrian)   +1 more
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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Implicature Function between Mitsubishi Car Salesperson and Consumers in Padang

open access: yesLangkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English, 2019
Implicature is one of the important language studies. It is because implicature can provide explanations of linguistic facts that cannot be explained by other linguistic theories.
Betari Anindya, Ike Revita, Gusdi Sastra
doaj   +1 more source

Visual metaphor in commercial ad: effectiveness or failure?

open access: yesКогниция, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Conversational Implicature in Sentilan Sentilun Talk Show [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Talk shows such as Sentilan Sentilun are quite popular in Indonesian television. These talk show are quite interesting to study because they are not only involving many participants, but also requiring the settings in which politeness and implicature ...
Sinaga, L. L. (Lusi)
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Vagueness in Implicature: The Case of Modified Adjectives

open access: yesJournal of Semantics, 2019
We show that the interpretation of sentences like John is not very Adj depends on whether Adj is vague. We argue that this follows from a constraint on the interaction between vagueness and conversational implicature, a domain that has not been studied ...
Timothy Leffel   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Courage, cowardice, and Maher’s misstep [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Could a Nazi soldier or terrorist be courageous? The Courage Problem asks us to answer this sort of question, and then to explain why people are reluctant to give this answer.
Kyle, Brent G.
core   +1 more source

Editorial: Scalar Implicatures [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975).
Reboul, Anne, Stateva, Penka
openaire   +4 more sources

Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
wiley   +1 more source

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