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Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory [PDF]
, 2001 The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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Are false implicatures lies? An empirical investigation
Mind & Language, 2018 Lies are typically defined as asserted falsehoods uttered with the intention of deceiving the hearer. A particularly problematic case for this definition is that of false implicatures. These are prototypically cases where the proposition expressed by the
Benjamin Weissman, M. Terkourafi
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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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Being Pragmatically Aware in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2015 This paper analyzes Luciana María Cignetti and María Salomé Di Giuseppe’s paper entitled “Pragmatic awareness of conversational implicatures and the usefulness of explicit instruction”.
Carlos De Pablos-Ortega
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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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Presupposed ignorance and exhaustification: how scalar implicatures and presuppositions interact
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017 We investigate the interactions between scalar implicatures and presuppositions in sentences containing both a scalar item and presupposition trigger. We first critically discuss Gajewski and Sharvit’s previous approach.
Benjamin Spector, Y. Sudo
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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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‘Ought Implies Can’: Not So Pragmatic After All [PDF]
, 2017 Those who want to deny the ‘ought implies can’ principle often turn to weakened views to explain ‘ought implies can’ phenomena. The two most common versions of such views are that ‘ought’ presupposes ‘can’, and that ‘ought’ conversationally implicates ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigated the understanding of underinformative sentences like “Some elephants have trunks” by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
W. Schaeken +2 more
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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