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Investigating the timecourse of accessing conversational implicatures during incremental sentence interpretation [PDF]
, 2013 Many contextual inferences in utterance interpretation are explained as following from the nature of conversation and the assumption that participants are rational.
Breheny, Richard +2 more
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Arguments, Implicatures and Argumentative Implicatures [PDF]
, 2012 In the first part of this paper I make some general remarks about the relevance of semantics and pragmatics to argumentation theory, insisting on the importance of the reconstruction of speaker meaning for argument analysis ...
Moldovan, Andrei
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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.
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The Quantity-Competence Presumption: Children Use Informativeness to Calibrate Trust and Infer Speakers' Knowledge. [PDF]
Dev SciABSTRACT Choosing whom to learn from is critical for human learners. A well‐established strategy to do so is to track informants' past accuracy. Yet this requires both a track record and independent knowledge of the truth—neither of which is available when encountering a new informant in an unfamiliar domain.
Bernard C, Depierreux A, Mascaro O.
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The Effect of Metapragmatic Awareness, Interactive Translation, and Discussion through Video-Enhanced Input on EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Implicature [PDF]
Applied 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
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, 2021 This chapter covers the notions of inference and implicature from a broad pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective. Starting from the fact that inference has wide applicability also in psychology and logic, while implicature is limited only to pragmatics, it opens by drawing three distinctions: (1) between inference in a broad and in a narrow sense, (2)
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This paper advances the following criticisms against the received view of implicatures: (1) implicatures are relations of pragmatic implication and not attempts to convey particular speaker meanings; (2) conversational implicatures are non-cancellable ...
Silva, Matheus
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Slurs and Pragmatic Competition [PDF]
ManuscritoDifferences in informativeness regarding truth-conditional and presuppositional content elicit scalar inferences. Many sentences carry not-at-issue, non-presupposed content, e.g. conventional implicatures.
NICOLÁS LO GUERCIO
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Perspective pragmatique sur l’anaphore
Corela, 2022 The aim of linguistic pragmatics is the study of how meaning is computed in inferences and implicatures and what effects speech acts and presuppositions may have.
Jean Albrespit
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The Effects of L2 Proficiency on Pragmatic Comprehension and Learner Strategies
Education Sciences, 2021 The present study aimed to examine the effect of proficiency on the pragmatic comprehension of speech acts, implicatures, and routines, as well as the way learners of different proficiency levels employ strategies when comprehending a pragmatic task ...
Hsuan-Yu Tai, Yuan-Shan Chen
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