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Theoretic Analysis of Implicatures in Pride and Prejudice and Its Pedagogical Implications
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
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Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?
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
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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
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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
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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
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Reasons Behind Mis/Understanding English Conversational Implicatures by University Learners in Yemen
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
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The Effect of Metapragmatic Awareness, Interactive Translation, and Discussion through Video-Enhanced Input on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Implicature [PDF]
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
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Speaker meaning, what is said and what is implicated [PDF]
[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.
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Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence
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
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Kinds of conversational cooperation [PDF]
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
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