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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)

open access: yesELT 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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The Effects of L2 Proficiency on Pragmatic Comprehension and Learner Strategies

open access: yesEducation 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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Inference and Implicature

open access: yes, 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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IMPLICATION OF REMIDING RIDWAN REMIN IN STAND UP COMEDY EVENTS

open access: yesMagistra Andalusia, 2020
Implications are a theory maybe the meaning is implied rather than explicit. Studies on these implicatures can be found on every day life as seen in the stand up comedy discourse by Ridwan Remin.
Nazilul _ Masroi
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Beyond the Semantic Web: Towards an Implicit Pragmatic Web and a Web of Social Representations

open access: yesFuture Internet, 2023
Motivated by the distinction between semantics and pragmatics as sub-disciplines of linguistics, shortly after Tim Berners-Lee introduced the Semantic Web in 2001, there have been works on its extension to the “pragmatic level”.
Yannis Haralambous, Philippe Lenca
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Editorial: Scalar Implicatures [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In 1975, Grice introduced the notion of implicature, arguing that it was more appropriate to account for a class of apparent lexical ambiguities through pragmatic processes than by multiplying lexical meanings (Modified Ockham's razor: Do not multiply meanings beyond necessity; Grice, 1975).
Reboul, Anne, Stateva, Penka
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AN ANALYSIS OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND IMPLICATURES IN UNDERSTANDING TOEFL SHORT CONVERSATION

open access: yesJurnal 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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Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This study explores how speakers defend morally sanctionable cultural stereotypes from challenges in adult second language classrooms. Within the conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis frameworks, I examine two extended video‐recorded class discussions in which students maintain face‐threatening, stereotypical portrayals of ...
Nadja Tadic
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EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONS OF IMPLICATURES IN NORTHERN KURMANJI

open access: yesگۆڤارا 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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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions 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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