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Journal of Pragmatics ResearchImplicature, a fundamental aspect of pragmatics, plays a significant role in effective communication. Investigating the implicature competence in the realm of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education, the present paper aims at exploring the ...
Amirreza Namdari, Alireza Bonyadi
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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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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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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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Implicatures of modified numerals: quantity or quality? [PDF]
, 2017 We propose a new analysis of modified numerals that allows us to: (i) predict ignorance with respect to the prejacent of at least (and thereby avoid to Bernard Schwarz's recent criticism of Coppock and Brochhagen 2013), (ii) get a three-way contrast ...
Ciardelli, Ivano +2 more
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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, 2021 This chapter covers the notions of inference and implicature from a broad pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective. Starting from the fact that inference has wide applicability also in psychology and logic, while implicature is limited only to pragmatics, it opens by drawing three distinctions: (1) between inference in a broad and in a narrow sense, (2)
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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Does reflection reduce the epistemic side‐effect effect? A new challenge to error accounts
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-118, February 2026.The epistemic side‐effect effect consists of an asymmetric pattern of knowledge attributions in harm and help cases, paralleling the Knobe effect for intentionality attributions. Error‐based accounts suggest the asymmetries arise from performance errors in harm cases. We challenge this claim with three new experimental studies designed to reduce errors.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz +3 more
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