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Presupposition, Persuasion and Mag Food Advertising: A Preliminary Study

Odisea, 2017
: In this study presupposition is examined from the point of view of the type of information assumed by advertisers (Levinson 1983; Goddard 1998) and the functions they fulfi l in achieving persuasion in nutritional advertising. Thus, 25 headlines from 5
Tamara Bouso
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Negation and presupposition, truth and falsity

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018
There are many kinds of negation and denial. Perhaps the most common is the Boolean negation not that applies to propositions-in-extension, i.e. truth-values.
Duží Marie
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Reporting Someone Else’s Speech: The Use of the Optative and Accusative-and-Infinitive as Reportative Markers in Herodotus’ Histories

Open Library of Humanities, 2018
This article provides a pragma-semantic account of the oblique optative and accusative-and-infinitive in Ancient Greek. The proposed account analyses certain seemingly anomalous uses as special cases of a general meaning.
Corien Bary
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Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures

Glossa, 2018
We ask whether iconic co-speech gestures are judged as more natural by naive participants when their content is entailed by a preceding context, or repeated in the same utterance, or when they contribute new information (i.e., are nontrivial).
Christina Zlogar, Kathryn Davidson
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Presupposition and it’s relation to Entailment, Conversational Implicature and Iqtidā

قضايا لغوية
This study focuses on presupposition, a linguistic phenomenon that holds utmost importance in communication. In addition, it analyses three other linguistic phenomena that are closely related to presupposition:entailment, conversational implicature ...
IBRAHIM ABDULLAH SULAIMAN
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COGNITIVE AND PRAGMATIC MECHANISMS OF GENERATING SITUATIONAL AND ECHOIC IRONY (A CASE STUDY OF THACKERAY’S NOVEL THE HISTORY [PDF]

Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The aim of the article is to identify the cognitive and pragmatic mechanisms of irony generation in Thackeray’s Novel, The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest En- emy, while distinguishing between ...
Nataliia N. Kravchenko, Olena А. Kryzhko   +1 more
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The problem of Presupposition in George Orwell’s Novella Animal Farm

Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2019
This research attempts to investigate the pragmatics presupposition in George Orwell’s Novella Animal Farm. Specifically, it tries to identify and classify the presupposition used in conversation in Orwell’s novella.
Faizal Risdianto, Noor Malihah, Agung Guritno   +2 more
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CAN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS UNDERSTAND PRESUPPOSITION? A SEMANTIC–PRAGMATIC INTERFACE ANALYSIS

Linguarum Universe
Presupposition constitutes one of the most complex categories at the intersection of semantics and pragmatics, as it encodes implicit meaning that is linguistically triggered but contextually validated.
Dilyorjon SOLIDJONOV
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Presupposition Triggers of Teacher Talk in Higher Education

English Education Journal, 2020
The present study is aimed at investigating the way of presupposition triggers realized in the lecturer talk. This qualitative research is conducted in English class of the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga by purposive sampling. The present study serves reading class recordings as the data.
Sri Wuli Fitriati, Dwi Rukmini, Umi Aisyah Sulistyaning Tyas   +2 more
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Presupposition in English news headlines: A Pragma-linguistic Study

Mağallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb Bi-Qinā
Confronted with an overwhelming volume of news, readers often lack the time and energy to peruse every piece. News headlines serve as crucial aids in extracting the most pertinent and engaging information from the deluge of data.
Mahmoud Abdulfatah Mohamed Ahmed
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