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Scripted Misunderstandings and Humour: A Case Study of Monty Python’s Dialogues

Psychology of Language and Communication
The major goal of this paper is to explore the pragmatic mechanisms underlying the interpretation of fabricated misunderstandings designed to generate humour.
Kavetska Alisa Anastasiia
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Imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay in the sitcom Modern Family: A relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic approach

Crossroads
The paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse.
Magdalena Wieczorek
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Completeness of relevant quantification theories.

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1974
In [20], Meyer and Dunn answered affirmatively for the relevant sentential logics E and R the question, "Is the rule y, 'From v-A and f-Av5, to infer B,' admissible?" This result, which confirmed an old conjecture of Anderson and Belnap, establishes the weak completeness of these and a number of related logics.
Meyer, Robert K., Dunn, J. Michael, Leblanc, Hugues   +2 more
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Rapid Access to Scalar Implicatures in Adjacency Pair Contexts: Experimental Evidence in Spanish

Languages, 2019
A conversational implicature arises when there is a gap between the syntactically and semantically encoded meaning of a sentence and the pragmatic meaning that is inferred in an actual communicative situation. Several experimental studies have approached
Rodrigo Loredo, Juan E. Kamienkowski, Virginia Jaichenco   +2 more
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Pragmatica sperimentale: il caso delle implicature scalari

Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2012
It is only in recent times that pragmatics has started to use experimental methods in order to test contrasting theories on communicative phenomena.
Claudia Bianchi
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Representationalism and Enactivism in Cognitive Translation Studies: A Predictive Processing Perspective

Information
Representational Theories of Mind have long dominated Cognitive Translation Studies, typically assuming that translation involves the manipulation of internal representations (symbols) that stand in for external states of affairs.
Michael Carl
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An investigation of the relevance-theoretical approach to cognitive effort in translation and the post-editing process

Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 2015
The present study presents findings from an experiment that investigates the cognitive effort of eight translators and eight students during translation and post-editing (PE) tasks from Japanese to Brazilian Portuguese.
Kyoko Sekino
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Vision-Based Attentiveness Determination Using Scalable HMM Based on Relevance Theory. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2019
Tiawongsombat P, Jeong MH, Pirayawaraporn A, Lee JJ, Yun JS.   +4 more
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From Hebel to Hope: A Cognitive-Linguistic Response to Postcolonial Readings of Ecclesiastes 4:1–3

Conspectus
Readers of the Bible within Africa continue to face a tension between faithfulness to the biblical text and its contemporary significance. This tension has, in recent decades, been resolved by employing a hermeneutic of suspicion.
Parmesh Venkatasami
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Investigating Communication Support Strategies as 'Micro-Interventions': A Conceptual-Methodological Framework Applying Realist Evaluation and Relevance Theory. [PDF]

Int J Lang Commun Disord
Jagoe C, Conica M, Wharton T, Zakaria M.
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