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Processing Presuppositions and Implicatures: Similarities and Differences

Frontiers in Communication, 2018
Presuppositions and scalar implicatures are traditionally considered to be distinct phenomena, but recent accounts analyze (at least some of) the former as the latter.
Cory Bill, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz   +3 more
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
wiley   +1 more source

Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains

Glossa
The present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over empty domains.
Maria Buyko, Salvatore Pistoia Reda, Vincenzo Moscati   +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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On Derived Change of State Verbs in Southern Aymara

Languages, 2021
There are two main approaches to change of state verbs. One adopts an approach in terms of a total change (becomeP, for base predicate P), i.e., a change from not being in the extension of the base predicate to being in it.
Gabriel Martínez Vera
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Racially Hegemonic Articulations: Class as Race in Constructions of Dominance in an Undergraduate Architecture Studio

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 123-134, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article responds to recent debates in this journal surrounding raciolinguistics and potential pitfalls of siloing of race and reproducing essentialism in the scholarship of language and race. Using Stuart Hall's theory of articulation, it provides an anti‐essentialist linguistic ethnographic analysis of identity construction in a UK ...
Steve Dixon‐Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]

, 2016
Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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Patients with psychosis struggle with scalar implicatures [PDF]

Schizophrenia Research, 2018
Pragmatic language difficulties in people with psychosis have been demonstrated repeatedly but one of the most studied types of pragmatic language, i.e. scalar implicatures (SIs), has not yet been examined in this population. SIs are a special kind of pragmatic inferences, based on linguistic expressions like some, or, must.
Martien, Wampers, Sofie, Schrauwen, Marc, De Hert, Leen, Gielen, Walter, Schaeken   +4 more
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What are particularistic pejoratives?

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 261-281, April 2026.
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]

, 2013
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 ...
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