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The L2 Acquisition of French Interrogatives: Pragmatic Inferences in Clefted wh-Questions
The present study aims to elaborate on the understanding of the second language (L2) acquisition of French interrogatives by focusing on clefted (subject) wh-questions, structures that are largely absent in prior L2 literature.
Emilie Destruel, Bryan Donaldson
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Distinguishing Entailment and Presupposition Under Negation Test
Distinguishing entailment from presupposition is quite difficult because their semanticrelation seems to be similar. Both entailment and presupposition have an automaticrelationship based on the context.
Gatri Asti Putri Indarti
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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication
Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing the addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion is the goal of speakers and the force of the speaker's commitment as indicated in the utterance is an important ...
Anne Reboul
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PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS - A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ORAL NEWS AND WRITTEN ONLINE NEWS DISCOURSE
Information becomes a crucial thing that someone gets in everyday terms. Dealing with the digital era, people can get the information through any communication devices. Then, language still has its own rule in communication.
Luthfiyatun Thoyyibah
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The study investigates the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on institutional tourism communication. In view of the necessary changes occurred in the tourism field since the start of the pandemic, a comparison will be made with the results of a previous ...
Daniela Cesiri
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Comparative Presupposition Study 2
This project aims to measure memory for truth and falsehood labelling comparatively across the following information packaging forms: assertion, conventional implicature, implicature, strong presupposition and weak ...
Eleanor Alice Miller
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I argue that “consent” language presupposes that the contemplated action is or would be at someone else’s behest. When one does something for another reason—for example, when one elects independently to do something, or when one accepts an invitation to ...
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
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Selecting Presuppositions in Conditional Clauses. Results from a Psycholinguistic Experiment.
In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning the presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent.
Filippo eDomaneschi +3 more
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Scope-taking and presupposition satisfaction [PDF]
This dissertation argues that the phenomena of presupposition are best understood as arising from certain expressions taking scope over expressions that contain them.
Grove, Julian
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A projeção de pressuposições: comparando teorias
The paper compares two solutions to the presupposition projection problem: the File Change Semantics, as proposed by Heim (1982, 1983), and the proposal raised by Geurts (1999) within the framework of Discourse Representation Theory, elaborated by Kamp &
Roberta Pires de Oliveira
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