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Conversational implicature: a diachronic cognitive pragmatic approach
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis 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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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 +2 more
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British Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how change becomes possible in couple discourse within psychoanalytic couple therapy. It proposes “couple discourse” as a clinical and theoretical concept for listening to the ways partners signify, project and transform experience together.
Keren Cohen
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Verbalisation of an alternative academic position in totalitarian discourse
Мова: класичне, модерне, постмодерне, 2023 Background. In Soviet Ukraine, academic discourse often acted as a means of implementing language planning, in particular as a tool for the transformation of the language corpus. All grammar textbooks published after 1933 broadcast the official knowledge:
Natalia Kobchenko
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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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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On the Quantitative Scalar or-Implicature
Synthese, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Games and Quantity implicatures [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we seek to account for scalar implicatures and Horn's division of pragmatic labor in game-theoretical terms by making use mainly of refinements of the standard solution concept of signaling games.
Robert van Rooij, van Rooij, R.
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Conversations can belong to different types, or genres. We consider four dimensions of variation as case studies: Some conversations are about sharing information, others about making decisions; some are about making firm commitments, others about brainstorming options; some are about sticking to the facts, others involve make‐believe; some ...
Elmar Unnsteinsson, Daniel W. Harris
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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