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Topics in Cognitive Science, 2019 Conversation is often cast as a cooperative effort, and some aspects of it, such as implicatures, have been claimed to depend on an assumption of cooperation (Grice, 1989).
M. Franke, G. Dulcinati, N. Pouscoulous
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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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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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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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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 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 +2 more
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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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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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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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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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