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What a jerk!

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 458-474, June 2025.
Abstract I argue that “general pejoratives” such as “jerk” or “bastard” differ crucially from items such as “that damn N”. While items such as the latter typically serve to give vent to one's attitudes, general pejoratives essentially involve judgments about a person's behaviour or character.
Thorsten Sander
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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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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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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 210-222, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
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When Language Background Does Not Matter: Both Mono‐ and Bilingual Children Use Mutual Exclusivity and Pragmatic Context to Learn Novel Words

Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Do mono‐ and bilingual children differ in the way they learn novel words in ambiguous settings? Listeners may resolve referential ambiguity by assuming that novel words refer to unknown, rather than known, objects–a response known as the mutual exclusivity effect.
Natalie Bleijlevens, Anna‐Lena Ciesla, Tanya Behne   +2 more
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Broaden Your Views. Implications of Domain Widening and the "Logicality" of Language [PDF]

, 2006
Linguistic
Chierchia, Gennaro
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Subsidiarity, States, and Intermediate Groups: Maintaining Subsidiarity's Distinct Contribution to Moral Philosophy

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

How speaker cooperation and knowledge prime scalar implicatures

Language and Cognition
Pragmatic theories generally agree that the derivation of implicit meaning depends on the assumption that the speaker is cooperative and knowledgeable, as well as the contextual relevance of the implicature.
Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian, Nausicaa Pouscoulous   +2 more
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Presuppositions and Implicatures in Comic Strips [PDF]

, 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)
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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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