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Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 412-426, Fall 2025.
Michael Da Silva
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EFL Learners' Pragmatic Tolerance of Quantity Maxim Violation
The current study embarks on investigating Iraqi EFL learners' pragmatic tolerance of quantity maxim violations. Additionally, it seeks to shed light on Iraqi EFL learners' pragmatic abilities in deriving pragmatic inferences from utterances that contain
Maha Khaled Yasseen Researcher: Maha Khaled Yasseen +1 more
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Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task
Experimental investigations into children’s interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that “some ...
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Is Semantics Really Psychologically Real? [PDF]
The starting point for this paper is a critical discussion of claims of psychological reality articulated within Borg’s (forth.) minimal semantics and Carpintero’s (2007) character*-semantics.
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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Experiments on the Role of the Question Under Discussion for Ambiguity Resolution and Implicature Computation in Adults [PDF]
From the Proceedings of SALT XVIII ...
Gualmini, Andrea +2 more
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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]
The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant ...
Anagnostopoulou +118 more
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Scalar implicatures as implicatures of compatibility
Las implicaciones de escalado se definen tradicionalmente como interpretaciones de límite superior de términos de escala débiles, en las que asumen la fuerza de información máxima de sus escalas, negando términos más informativos (por ejemplo, "solo unos pocos pero no todos") por el trabajo de la primera cantidad de grice submáxima.
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Objectionable thick concepts in denials [PDF]
So-called "thick" moral concepts are distinctive in that they somehow "hold together" evaluation and description. But how? This paper argues against the standard view that the evaluations which thick concepts may be used to convey belong to sense or ...
Väyrynen, Pekka
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Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures
Abstract Bare numerals present an interesting challenge to formal semantics and pragmatics: they seem to be compatible between various readings (‘at least’, ‘exactly’, and ‘at most’ readings), and the choice of a particular reading seems to depend on complex interactions between contextual factors and linguistic ...
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This paper advances an approach to relevance grounded on patterns of material inference called argumentation schemes, which can account for the reconstruction and the evaluation of relevance relations. In order to account for relevance in different types
Macagno, Fabrizio
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