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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2019 The notion of implicature has been a matter of discussion since Grice put it forward. He proposed a schema to explain how implicatures are generated and inferred, but the key condition it contains has been surprisingly overlooked.
Miquel Company
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‘Sneaky’ Persuasion in Public Health Risk Communication
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 208-218, December 2025.ABSTRACT This paper identifies and critiques a tendency for public health risk communication to be ‘sneakily’ persuasive. First, I describe how trends in the social and health sciences have facilitated an approach to public health risk communication which focuses on achieving behaviour change directly, rather than informing people's decisions about ...
Rebecca C. H. Brown
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Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 657-680, November 2025.This article examines categorizational asymmetries observable in the attempted production and negotiation of a “policeable” scene. The case described in the article—an encounter between a police officer and a black male student treated as “out of place”—demonstrates how members accomplish, negotiate, and resist categorial “statuses” and associated ...
Robin James Smith
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On the Meaning of 'Therefore' [PDF]
, 2017 I argue for an analysis of ‘therefore’ as presupposition trigger against the more standard conventional implicature story originally put forward by Grice (1975).
Pavese, Carlotta
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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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SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES IN CONVERSATIONS AMONG FAMILY MEMBERS
ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2018 Social contexts play important roles in the conversations. The speakers need to always refer to those contexts when conversing. Moreover, conversations do not only contain literal meanings but also meanings beyond the utterances.
Aldha Williyan
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Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 757-769, November 2025.Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures
Language and CognitionPragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini +2 more
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BANYUMASAN CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES [PDF]
, 2012 To mean what you say is sometimes problematic in daily conversation, moreover in some indigenous dialects. It requires comprehensive context to achieve the core of communication. So does in Banyumasan.
Hadiati , Chusni
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