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Games and Quantity implicatures [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper we seek to account for scalar implicatures and Horn's division of pragmatic labor in game-theoretical terms by making use mainly of refinements of the standard solution concept of signaling games.
Robert van Rooij, van Rooij, R.
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Pictorial (Conversational) Implicatures

, 2019
The philosophical problem of pictorial conversational implicatures can be summarized as follows: We have three propositions that are independently plausible and jointly inconsistent. (Non-P) Anti-propositionalism: pictures do not have context-independent,
Bárány, Tibor
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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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Intentions, Commitments, and the Derivation of Implicatures [PDF]

Organon F
In this paper, I focus on a common equivocality in how the content of conversational, especially scalar, implicatures is specified and I argue that there is a substantial difference between the belief specification BELS(¬ψ) (“The speaker believes that ¬ψ”
Matej Drobňák
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Implicature, Inference and Cancellability [PDF]

, 2013
The standard position in pragmatics to date has been that cancellability is useful way of differentiating implicatures from logical implications, semantic entailments and the like. In recent years, however, there has been considerable debate as to whether implicatures are in fact always cancellable, or indeed whether they are cancellable at all ...
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Normal state implicature [PDF]

Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1990
In the right situation, a speaker can use an unqualified indefinite description without being misunderstood. This use of language, normal state implicature, is a kind of conversational implicature, i.e. a non-truth-functional context-dependent inference based upon language users' awareness of principles of cooperative conversation.
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Conversational Implicature in SMS Discourse

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2015
The paper analyzes the characteristics, functions and markers of conversational implicatures in SMS discourse. The first part of the article introduces: (1) the basic mechanisms of successful transmission of conversational implicatures in interpersonal ...
Virna Karlić
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An Account of Opinion Implicatures

CoRR, 2014
While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work initiates the computational study of a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented inference) in text. This paper described a rule-based framework for representing and analyzing opinion implicatures which we ...
Janyce Wiebe, Lingjia Deng
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L’implicite comme moyen de persuasion : une approche quantitative

Corela, 2018
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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NILAI LUHUR DALAM LAGU-LAGU DAYAK: KAJIAN IMPLIKATUR

Jurnal KATA: Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, 2018
This study aims to describe the form and meaning of the noble value in the tribal pop tribe Dayak. Sources of data in this study poetry song pop area Dayak tribe.
Brigita Yuni
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