Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Upon hearing “Some of Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome,” adults can easily generate a scalar implicature and infer that the intended meaning of the utterance corresponds to “Some but not all Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome.” Comprehension experiments show that preschoolers struggle with this kind of inference until at least 5 years of age ...
Mognon, Irene +3 more
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Lying, Deceptive Implicatures, and Commitment [PDF]
, 2021 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.
Alex Wiegmann +2 more
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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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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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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.
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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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Experimental evidence for neg-raising in Slavic
Linguistica, 2016 Most research studying neg-raising focuses on English. Two notable exceptions are Bošković & Gajewski (2009) and Dočekal (2014) who discuss neg-raising in Slavic.
Mojmír Dočekal, Jakub Dotlačil
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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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Die ausgewählten manipulativen Strategien in den öffentlichen Propagandareden der NS-Zeit. Dargestellt am Beispiel der Sportpalastrede [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 The article is devoted to use of the linguistic manipulation techniques in the public speeches from the Nazi Germany. The main aim of this article is to study what kind of language-manipulative-techniques were used by the propagandists to create ...
Agnieszka Wypiorczyk
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Conversational Implicature [PDF]
, 2018 Conversational implicatures (i) are implied by the speaker in making an utterance; (ii) are part of the content of the utterance, but (iii) do not contribute to direct (or explicit) utterance content; and (iv) are not encoded by the linguistic meaning of what has been uttered.
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