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Conversational implicature in undisputed movie [PDF]
, 2019 This research analyzed conversational implicature and the violation maxim in the movie entitled ‘Undisputed’ directed by Walter Hill. The researcher chose and analyzed this movie because the language style like the impoliteness is much used by the ...
Ferdiansa, Johan Andika
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How to make people do things with words
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 454-470, June 2026.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
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An Investigation for Implicatures in Chinese : Implicatures in Chinese and in English are similar ! [PDF]
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, 2014 Implicit opinions are commonly seen in opinion-oriented documents, such as political editorials. Previous work have utilized opinion inference rules to detect implicit opinions evoked by events that positively/negatively affect entities (goodFor/badFor) to improve sentiment analysis for English text.
Lingjia Deng, Janyce Wiebe
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Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT Incrementality is one of the hallmarks of realtime language comprehension. It contrasts sharply with another feature of language comprehension, the high degree of context dependence exhibited by many expressions calling for global adaptations to the larger discourse context.
Fabian Schlotterbeck, Oliver Bott
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains
GlossaThe present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko +2 more
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A Linguistic Analysis of the Theme of Racism Represented in Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us '' [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmThis study explores Michael Jackson Protest Song's '' They Don’t Care About Us ''. It aims to reveal the function of the pragmatic features of the song.
Jihad Shaban Wahba
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The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants
Developmental Neurobiology, Volume 86, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Recent investigations have shown that the neural processing of linguistic content may interact with social cognition. Specifically, semantic processing, as reflected by the N400 event‐related potential, appears to be sensitive to manipulations of Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to attribute mental content to social partners.
Bálint Forgács +6 more
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Problems connected with the notion of implicature [PDF]
As the title suggests, the primary concern of this study is with problems arising from a very widely used notion in the recent literature of linguistics and philosophy, the notion of implicature.
Koutoupis-Kitis, Elizabeth
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Implicature of Jokes in Broadcast Messages
, 2014 The study of implicature which is one of the discussions of pragmatics is an interesting and challenging topic to discuss. Implicature is a meaning which is implied in an utterance which is not the same as its literal meaning.
Yuli Widiana
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract To navigate in and communicate about the continuous world we experience, our minds segment this experience into discrete event units. Yet, languages differ in how they package core aspects of events into linguistic units. Here, we ask how event units in language and cognition relate to each other, and how this relation might change during ...
Bilge Tınaz, Ercenur Ünal
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