Results 21 to 30 of about 22,769 (243)

Theoretic Analysis of Implicatures in Pride and Prejudice and Its Pedagogical Implications

open access: yesScript Journal, 2019
This study was aimed at finding out the implicatures, the types of the implicatures, and the intended meaning of the implicatures employed by the characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Dita Rizki Anggraini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?

open access: yesSemantics and Pragmatics, 2021
Two mouse-tracking experiments tested predictions from two different models of scalar implicature as to whether exhaustive interpretations are computed prior to ignorance implicatures.
John M. Tomlinson, C. R. Ronderos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implicatures and Naturalness

open access: yesLanguage, Cognition, and Mind, 2021
Pragmatics postulates a rich typology of implicatures to explain how true assertions can nevertheless be misleading. This typology has been mainly defended on the basis of a priori considerations.
I. Douven
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is Lying Bound to Commitment? Empirically Investigating Deceptive Presuppositions, Implicatures, and Actions

open access: yesCognitive Sciences, 2020
Lying is an important moral phenomenon that most people are affected by on a daily basis-be it in personal relationships, in political debates, or in the form of fake news. Nevertheless, surprisingly little is known about what actually constitutes a lie.
Louisa M. Reins, Alex Wiegmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PROMOTING PRAGMATICS KNOWLEDGE TO STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATIONANDENGLISHLITERATURESTUDYPROGRAMTOFACEAN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS EXAMINATION

open access: yesKajian Linguistik dan Sastra, 2017
This paper deals with promoting knowledge of pragmatics which focuses on the knowledge of the illocutionary acts and conversational implicatures to students of English education and English literature study program.
- Margana
doaj   +1 more source

Reasons Behind Mis/Understanding English Conversational Implicatures by University Learners in Yemen

open access: yes, 2021
English, as a communication tool, plays an extremely significant role in cross-cultural communication. While it is true that language users can mean exactly what they mean in their utterances, it is also true that they can have their utterances mean much
H. Nassar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Effect of Metapragmatic Awareness, Interactive Translation, and Discussion through Video-Enhanced Input on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Implicature [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Research on English Language, 2020
It is substantiated that particular features of pragmatics are teachable, and instruction is both necessary and effective. Determining what kind of intervention is most effectual for facilitating learners’ pragmatic development has been a central issue ...
Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh. R Eslami
doaj   +1 more source

Speaker meaning, what is said and what is implicated [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
[First Paragraph] Unlike so many other distinctions in philosophy, H P Grice's distinction between what is said and what is implicated has an immediate appeal: undergraduate students readily grasp that one who says 'someone shot my parents' has merely ...
Saul, J.M.
core   +1 more source

Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence

open access: yesNatural Language Semantics, 2021
Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise mysterious unassertability of a
P. Marty, Jacopo Romoli
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Kinds of conversational cooperation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Cooperative Principle was the organizing principle in Grice’s pragmatics. More recently, cooperation has played a reduced role in pragmatic theory. The principle has been attacked on the grounds that people are not always or generally cooperative.
Lumsden, David
core   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy