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Understanding Focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence [PDF]
, 2020 This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance ...
Lascarides, Alex, Schlöder, Julian J.
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions 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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EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONS OF IMPLICATURES IN NORTHERN KURMANJI
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆThe 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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On embedded implicatures [PDF]
, 2009 The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth ...
Sauerland, Uli
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The Treatment of Geographical Dialect in Literary Translation from the Perspective of Relevance Theory [PDF]
, 2017 This paper discusses problems involved in the translation of literary works that apply linguistic varieties, especially geographical dialects. It surveys selected approaches to the functions of dialects in literature and to the strategies of dealing with
Adamczyk +58 more
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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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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Društvene i Humanističke StudijeThis paper investigates the features of calculability and cancellability of conversational implicatures, focusing on their societal importance. The analysis of the carnival effigy Škuribando Fureštić is used to illustrate how conversational implicatures ...
Martina Blečić
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Conversational Humor in Intercultural Communication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study identifies failed attempts at conversational humor that were either not appreciated or resulted in impoliteness as produced by English as a lingua franca (ELF) users from the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar who were engaging in intercultural communication.
Zhaoyi Pan
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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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