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The Main Bone of Contention

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
I enumerate the main disagreements between Devitt and me, and then elucidate the most fundamental one. It concerns what it takes to refer to something.
Kent Bach
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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007
This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of ...
Gemma Pastor-Cerezuela, Juan C. Tordera Yllescas, Francisco González-Sala, Maite Montagut-Asunción, María-Inmaculada Fernández-Andrés   +4 more
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Implicature in the Novel The Missing Piece 1: A Relevance Theory Approach

Jurnal Bahasa
Language in literary works is often non-literal and rich in implied meanings known as implicatures. Accordingly, this study aims to analyse the use of implicature as a narrative instrument in The Missing Piece 1 by Fatimah Busu.
Julaina Nopiah1, Murni Zulaikha Md Abdur Rafique   +1 more
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On Embedded Implicatures

, 2004
The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth ...
Sauerland, Uli
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Sentiment Analysis of Conversational Implicature: A Computational Pragmatics Approach

Applied Artificial Intelligence
The process of inferring the intention of conversational implicatures involves the interpretation of the speaker’s sentiment. However, the relationship between implicatures and sentiments has not been clear enough, and there is no research explaining the
Xianbo Li, Kunpei Xu
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Presuppositions and Implicatures in Comic Strips

Lingua Cultura, 2008
Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Ienneke Indra Dewi
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Maximize conventional implicatures

It is argued that the comparison between an uttered sentence and a set of relevant alternatives carrying a stronger conventional implicature may give rise to scalar inferences akin to already known instances of the phenomenon, such as scalar implicatures
Lo Guercio, Nicolás Francisco
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AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND IMPLICATURES IN UNDERSTANDING TOEFL SHORT CONVERSATION

Jurnal Sosial Humaniora
Listening comprehension is found to be among the most difficult tasks for the learners due to several reasons. Mostly, test-takers find difficulty in interpreting the intended meaning of the utterances in the TOEFL examination.
Desi Tri Cahyaningati
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Functional relevance as a principle of translation problem-solving. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Sang Z.
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