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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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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
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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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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]

, 2013
This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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Same and different are additive presupposition triggers

Linguistics and Philosophy
AbstractWe propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different, relying on two claims: the first is that same and different are able to take scope, and the second is that they are presuppositional. On this account, same and different are decomposed into two parts: an additive operator TOO and a (non-)identity predicate.
Line Mikkelsen, Daniel Hardt
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The extension of the taxon cycle model to island plants: insights from the Canarian vascular flora

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taxon cycle models describe eco‐evolutionary patterns of lineage colonization, diversification, and decline across archipelagos, inferring an important role for competition amongst ecologically similar taxa in driving concurrent niche changes.
José María Fernández‐Palacios, Rüdiger Otto, Robert J. Whittaker   +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 ANALYSIS OF THE QUESTION IN MATA NAJWA “POLITIK SELEBRITI” EPISODE [PDF]

, 2013
Television program has been the media not only for giving new information but also molding up the society’s perception. Moreover in the talk show program, the sharing information is not only done among the conversant but also the audience or the ...
Umami , Habiba al
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Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee, Anna Pak, Donghwi (Josh) Seo, Taewoo Roh   +3 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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