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Some , And Possibly All, Scalar Inferences Are Not Delayed: Evidence For Immediate Pragmatic Enrichment [PDF]

, 2010
Scalar inferences are commonly generated when a speaker uses a weaker expression rather than a stronger alternative, e.g., John ate some of the apples implies that he did not eat them all. This article describes a visual-world study investigating how and
Agresti, Allopenna, Bott, Breheny, Calvert, Carston, Chambers, Chierchia, Chierchia, Cooper, Dahan, Dahan, Daniel J. Grodner, Gallistel, Geurts, Grice, Grodner, Hirschberg, Horn, Horn, Huang, Jaeger, Kanan, Kass, Kathleen M. Carbary, Levinson, Magnuson, Matin, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Murphy, Natalie M. Klein, Noveck, Noveck, Pickering, Pollack, Postal, Rips, Russell, Sadock, Salverda, Salverda, Sauerland, Soames, Sperber, Swinney, Swinney, Tanenhaus, Tanenhaus   +47 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational Implicature in SMS Discourse

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2015
The paper analyzes the characteristics, functions and markers of conversational implicatures in SMS discourse. The first part of the article introduces: (1) the basic mechanisms of successful transmission of conversational implicatures in interpersonal ...
Virna Karlić
doaj  

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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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
wiley   +1 more source

Conversational implicatures [PDF]

Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue -, 2001
According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of Grice's (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like Atlas & Levinson (1981) and Horn (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles.
openaire   +1 more source

Probability and implicatures: A unified account of the scalar effects of disjunction under modals

, 2017
Sentences involving disjunction under epistemic modal adjectives — such as possible , likely , and certain — give rise to the inference that the disjuncts are epistemically possible.
P. Santorio, Jacopo Romoli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Processing Presuppositions and Implicatures: Similarities and Differences

Frontiers in Communication, 2018
Presuppositions and Scalar implicatures are traditionally considered to be distinct phenomena, but recent approaches analyze certain Presuppositions as Scalar Implicatures.
Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, F. Schwarz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 2183-2200, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Scalar Implicatures: The psychological reality of scales

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like The pianist played some Mozart sonatas is interpreted as The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas have been given two different analyses.
Alex de Carvalho, Alex de Carvalho, Anne Colette Reboul, Jean-Baptiste Van Der Henst, Anne Cheylus, Tatjana A Nazir   +5 more
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