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Subsidiarity, States, and Intermediate Groups: Maintaining Subsidiarity's Distinct Contribution to Moral Philosophy

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 412-426, Fall 2025.
Michael Da Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers

open access: yesSemantics and Pragmatics, 2013
We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and ...
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
doaj   +1 more source

Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature

open access: yesCoRR
Magri (2016) investigates two puzzles arising from conjunction. Although Magri has proposed a solution to the second puzzle, the first remains unresolved. This first puzzle reveals a hidden interaction among quantification, collective/concurrent interpretation, and contextual updating dimensions that have yet to be explored.
openaire   +2 more sources

Maintaining Context or Reacting to It? Cognitive Control Strategy and Awareness of the “Question Under Discussion” in Scalar Implicature Derivation

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
This experimental study examines whether the Question Under Discussion (QUD) modulates the comprehension of pragmatic implicatures in context. Using brief two-sentence communicative exchanges, participants are asked to judge the acceptability of a target
Glenn Starr
doaj   +1 more source

On embedded implicatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core  

Presuppositions and Implicatures in Comic Strips [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Article aimed to find out the role of presuppositions, implicatures, as well as to see the maxims violated or flouted in the comic strips i.e. to whether there is a miscommunication among the characters in the comic strips. Data were taken from the three
Dewi, I. I. (Ienneke)
core   +2 more sources

Conversational Implicture in Inception Movie Dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study dealt with Conversational Implicature in Inception Movie Dialogue. The objectives of this study were to find out the most dominant types of Conversational Implicature and the meaning of each implicature.
Sigalingging, H. N. (Handrian)   +1 more
core  

Computing Scalar Implicatures

open access: yesSemantics and Linguistic Theory, 2008
No abstract.
openaire   +2 more sources

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