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Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction
Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015 The present study attempts to investigate the degree of pragmatic awareness of learners of English as a foreing language and also whether explicit instruction facilitates the learners’ interpretation of these implicatures.
Luciana María Cignetti +1 more
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Intentionalism, anti‐Intentionalism and conversational interaction
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Proponents as well as opponents of modeling aesthetic interpretation on conversation tend to assume that this implies that the author's intention constitutes the meaning of her work and that the aim of interpretation consists in recovering it.
Palle Leth
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, 2015 It seems to be a common and intuitively plausible assumption that conversational implicatures arise only when one of the so-called conversational maxims is violated at the level of what is said.
Dinges, Alexander
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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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Scalar implicatures under uncertainty
, 2020 Studies on judgments under uncertainty argue that individuals reason about the likelihoods of events in ways that are inconsistent with the basic axioms of probability.
Agyemang, Cathy Yaa
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Two adequacy conditions on a minimalist account of truth dependence
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to Aristotle's Categories (14b14–22), the proposition that p is true because p, but it is not the case that p because the proposition that p is true. Call this truth dependence. Truth dependence is challenging for Horwich's minimalism.
Susanna Melkonian‐Altshuler
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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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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 500-516, June 2026.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 Analysis in “Kingdom of Heaven” Movie Script by William Monahan
Buletin Al-Turas, 2020 This study was designed to discover the types of conversational implicature and the non-observance maxim of cooperative principles expressed by the characters in the Kingdom of Heaven movie script by William Monahan.
Saiful Akmal, Desy Ulfa Yana
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Churchill’s reflection discourse
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 This study presents the results of a cognitive analysis of Winston Churchill’s historical works and memoirs at the textual, lingual and conceptual levels in order to interpret the implicatures of Churchill’s reflection discourse. The scope of the present
Bazylevych Nataliia, Nikonova Vira
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