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Lying, Deceptive Implicatures, and Commitment

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022
Deceptive implicatures are a subtle communicative device for leading someone into a false belief. However, it is widely accepted that deceiving by means of deceptive implicature does not amount to lying.
Alexander Wiegmann, Jörg Meibauer, Pascale Willemsen   +2 more
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The maintenance of implicatures in the English translation of dialogues in the novel “The Land of Five Towers” (A Descriptive Qualitative Study)

ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2014
This final project is about the implicatures found in the source novel entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” written by Ahmad Fuadi that are translated into English by Angie Kilbane entitled “The Land of Five Towers”.
Fatimah
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Sources of cognitive cost in scalar implicature processing: A review

Frontiers in Communication, 2022
Research in Experimental Pragmatics has shown that deriving scalar implicatures involves effort and processing costs. This finding was robust and replicated across a wide variety of testing techniques, logical terms, populations, and languages.
Ahmed Khorsheed, Jessica Price, Bob van Tiel   +2 more
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AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND IMPLICATURES IN UNDERSTANDING TOEFL SHORT CONVERSATION

Jurnal Sosial Humaniora, 2012
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. To understand the intended
Desi Tri Cahyaningati
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONS OF IMPLICATURES IN NORTHERN KURMANJI

گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ
The current paper explores the functions of implicatures in Northern Kurmanji (NK). It lays concentration on the non-literal meanings (interpretation) that speakers convey beyond the literal one of either their speech or writing.
Nechirvan Jawzal, Fakhir Mohammed
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Telling People to Change Their Behaviour Through Implications: An Implicature Analysis on Covid-19 Public Service Announcements in Indonesia

Elsya, 2021
Public service announcements (PSAs) are the official way for governments to inform, educate and change public behaviour in order to reduce public health issues, such as Covid-19.
Susan Marbun, Dumaris E. Silalahi, Herman Herman   +2 more
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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Conversational implicature: a diachronic cognitive pragmatic approach

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study conducts a corpus-based diachronic investigation of the noun phrase hóngyǎn (红眼) and proposes the diachronic cognitive pragmatic model to demonstrate that particularized conversational implicatures develop into generalized conversational ...
Ruili Su, Yanfei Zhang
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Investigating Implicature and Cooperation Concepts in Selected Quranic Verses from Gender Perspective

مجلة الآداب, 2015
Implicatures frequently occur in daily conversations, yet their use is often not fully understood. Generally speaking, implicatures are used to hint, suggest, or avoid directness for various reasons. They seem to be in a direct contrast to Grice's (1975)
Zainab Saad Mohammed
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