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Analyzing Implicatures in Taliwang Dialect

open access: yesJournal 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]

open access: yes, 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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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
wiley   +1 more source

Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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Context-Sensitivity and Individual Differences in the Derivation of Scalar Implicature

open access: yesFrontiers 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

How to make people do things with words

open access: yesNoûs, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Scope as a Source for Non‐Incremental Effects?

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship Between EFL Students' Implicature Competence and Their English Academic Success Across Gender

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics Research
Implicature, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 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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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant ...
Anagnostopoulou   +118 more
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