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Conversational Implicture in Inception Movie Dialogue [PDF]
This study dealt with Conversational Implicature in Inception Movie Dialogue. The objectives of this study were to find out the most dominant types of Conversational Implicature and the meaning of each implicature.
Sigalingging, H. N. (Handrian) +1 more
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: the case from clinical pragmatics [PDF]
The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable.
Adams +75 more
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THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BANYUMASAN CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURES [PDF]
To mean what you say is sometimes problematic in daily conversation, moreover in some indigenous dialects. It requires comprehensive context to achieve the core of communication. So does in Banyumasan.
Hadiati , Chusni
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Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues [PDF]
Recently several papers have reported relevance effects on the cognitive assessments of indicative conditionals, which pose an explanatory challenge to the Suppositional Theory of conditionals advanced by David Over, which is influential in the ...
Skovgaard-Olsen, Niels
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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures [PDF]
Grice (1975) pointed out that the ignorance inferences normally drawn when disjunctive sentences are uttered are cancelled when it is presupposed that speakers are not going to provide all of the relevant information that they have available (e.g., in ...
Fox, Daniel
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I enumerate the main disagreements between Devitt and me, and then elucidate the most fundamental one. It concerns what it takes to refer to something.
Kent Bach
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Objectionable thick concepts in denials [PDF]
So-called "thick" moral concepts are distinctive in that they somehow "hold together" evaluation and description. But how? This paper argues against the standard view that the evaluations which thick concepts may be used to convey belong to sense or ...
Väyrynen, Pekka
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Referentially Used Descriptions: A Reply to Devitt
This paper continues an ongoing debate between Michael Devitt and me on referential uses of definite descriptions. He has argued that definite descriptions have referential meanings, and I have argued that they do not. Having previously rebutted the view
Kent Bach
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L’implicite comme moyen de persuasion : une approche quantitative
Among linguistic implicits, implicatures leave implicit part of the content expressed by utterances, while presuppositions and topicalizations conceal the speaker’s responsibility for the introduction of that content.
Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri
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