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Logic and Conversation Revisited: Evidence For a Division Between Semantic and Pragmatic Content in Real Time Language Comprehension [PDF]
, 2011 The distinction between semantics (linguistically encoded meaning) and pragmatics (inferences about communicative intentions) can often be unclear and counterintuitive.
Huang, Yi Ting, Snedeker, Jesse
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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
مجلة النور للدراسات الانسانيةThe 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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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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On embedded implicatures [PDF]
, 2009 The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth ...
Sauerland, Uli
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Pragmatic Considerations in the Interpretation of Denying the Antecedent [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper I am concerned with the analysis of fragments of a discourse or text that express deductive arguments suspected of being denials of the antecedent.
Moldovan, Andrei
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Scalar implicatures as implicatures of compatibility
, 2022 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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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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The Floats Of Grice’s Conversational Maxims In “1001 Jokes” Humor Book By Richard Wiseman [PDF]
, 2014 This study focuses on analyzing the floats of Grice’s conversational maxims in “1001 Jokes” humor book. This study is aimed (1) to describe types of Grice’s conversational maxims are frequently floated in “1001 Jokes” humor book, (2)to describe the ...
, Agus Wijayanto, Ph.D +2 more
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Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2013 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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