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Conversation principles and second language utterances
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2007 Conversation principles, such as those of Grice (1957, 1968, 1975), Austin (1962), Searle (1962, 1969) are formulated to enable interlocutors to interact meaningfully, in a linguistic project.
Kaburise, Phyllis
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Scalar implicatures as implicatures of compatibility
, 2022 Las implicaciones de escalado se definen tradicionalmente como interpretaciones de límite superior de términos de escala débiles, en las que asumen la fuerza de información máxima de sus escalas, negando términos más informativos (por ejemplo, "solo unos pocos pero no todos") por el trabajo de la primera cantidad de grice submáxima.
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PRESUPPOSITIONS AND IMPLICATURES
, 2008 Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Ienneke, Indra Dewi
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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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Referential Descriptions: A Note on Bach
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2007 Bach fails to give a satisfactory pragmatic account of referential uses of definite descriptions because he does not explain how a description’s quantificational meaning plays a “key role” in those uses.
Michael Devitt
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2017 Dans les formes citées françaises à caractère humoristique, les mécanismes du comique lié au tabou se laissent préciser à l’aide des analyses sémantique et stylistique, mais la description complète est obtenue grâce à l’appareil de la pragmatique ...
Magdalena Lipińska
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In Defense of a Pragmatic Interpretation of Bambi Sentences
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-9, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the debate surrounding bound uses of names. My primary aim is to argue that bound interpretations of names do not provide evidence that names semantically have bound uses. I begin by outlining the motivation for the view that names do have semantic bound uses, then offer several reasons to reject this view.
Seong Soo Park
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, 2003 Conversational implicatures do not normally fall within the scope of operators because they arise at the speech act level, not at the level of sub-locutionary constituents. Yet in some cases they do, or so it seems.
Recanati, François
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The semantics of plural morphology in Akan
GlossaWith initial native speaker judgements suggesting an exclusive plural morpheme in downward entailing contexts in Akan, as reported by Ahenkorah (2022), this research seeks to test these claims through experimental means and to provide a more ...
Madeline Ladore
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Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Thick terms like “courageous,” “smart,” and “tasty” combine description and evaluation, contrasting with purely evaluative terms like “good” and “bad,” and descriptive terms like “Italian” and “green.” Thick terms intuitively constitute a special class of evaluative language; but we currently do not know whether the psycholinguistic effects of
Giovanni Cassani, Matteo Colombo
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