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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Conversational Implicature"”.
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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature.As the first part of the thesis, Grice's theory of conversational implicature is revised. This is done by 1)an addition to Grice's Maxim of Quality so that this maxim will be able to take presupposition into account; 2)an …
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Conversational Implicature in Children's Referential Communication
Contemporary theories of language comprehension emphasize the importance of listeners' active, cognitive contributions to message meaning. A major class of contributions is the listener's knowledge of the conventions of language use (Rule Knowledge). H. P. Grice has described some abstract …
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
… and what is implicated is bridged using a set of conversational maxims that can be exploited to trigger conversational implicatures. This thesis investigates the nature of Gricean Manner Implicature (MI) and its relationship with other types of conversational implicature, specifically ad-hoc and …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… in that they do not elicit a generalized conversational implicature for topic-shift, nor do they fit on an anaphora hierarchy. Instead, Japanese 3rd person pronouns are better analyzed as triggering particularized conversational implicatures, i.e., that their interpretation must be …
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Structural competition in grammar
… to what is commonly accepted in the domains of conversational implicature, focus alternatives, morphological blocking, and economy conditions in syntax and semantics. Chapter 1 presents background on some of the issues regarding this general claim. The second claim is more controversial. Most …
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Assertibility and coordination: Analysing `and' and/or `or', some `some', but not so much `but', `not', `so', or `nor', nor `much'
… it is neither Gricean nor neo-Gricean, as conversational implicature is ignored in favour of an appeal to formal and general predictions that can be drawn by an ideal rational cooperative Hearer. This allows the development of formal propositional systems based on norms inspired by Grice's …