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How to make people do things with words

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Genre and Conversation

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
wiley   +1 more source

The Trouble With Quantifiers: Exploring Children's Deficits in Scalar Implicature.

Child Development, 2018
Adults routinely use the context of utterances to infer a meaning beyond the literal semantics of their words (e.g., inferring from "She ate some of the cookies" that she ate some, but not all).
Alexandra Horowitz, Rose M. Schneider, Michael C. Frank   +2 more
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Analyzing Implicatures in Taliwang Dialect

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to analyze the types of implicature and flouting maxims and the reasons for doing the flouting in Taliwang Dialect. It applied the descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Data was collected by recording natural conversations among
Ismiati Ismiati
doaj   +1 more source

CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE ANALYSIS IN “FACING THE GIANTS” THE MOVIE [PDF]

, 2016
Wahyu Zulfa Lailah 14121320263 Conversational Implicature Analysis n Facing The Giants The Movie. This study analyzed conversational implicature, there are two types of implicature: (1) conventional implicature and (2) conversational implicature ...
Wahyu Zulfa Lailah,
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
wiley   +1 more source

Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
The derivation of scalar implicatures for the quantifier some has been widely studied to investigate the computation of pragmatically enriched meanings. For example, the sentence “I found some books” carries the semantic interpretation that at least one ...
Xiao Yang, Utako Minai, R. Fiorentino
semanticscholar   +1 more source

HUMOR IN JALAN PINGGIR CRITICISM COLUMN IN SILATURAHIM RUBRIC SUARA MUHAMMADIYAH MAGAZINE (A PRAGMATIC STUDY) [PDF]

, 2011
In human life, human beings will not be separated from problems, any time man strives to get trough the problem, ranging from minor problems in life, to the tragedy that changed someone’s life, this thesis tells about a character named Andrew Laeddis is ...
HANDAYANI, NITA DIAN
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Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: the case from clinical pragmatics [PDF]

, 2015
The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable.
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
wiley   +1 more source