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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Implicature"”.
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Verbal irony as conversational implicature
… 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 inclusion of …
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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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Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic investigations of scalar implicature
… and composition of meaning in scalar implicatures. Scalar implicature is the phenomenon whereby the use of a less informative term (e.g., some) is inferred to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g., to mean not all). The experiments reported here investigate how the …
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Cooperative Intentions and Epistemic Reasoning in Scalar Implicature Derivation: A Developmental Perspective
… on a specific linguistic phenomenon, scalar implicatures, by which listeners enrich the meaning of a given utterance to implicate more than what is explicitly said. Such implicatures arise when a speaker uses a less informative term, such as “some”, when a more informative term like “all” is …
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Minding Our Manners: Investigating The Nature Of Gricean Manner Implicature Using Psychological Priming Techniques
… 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 adjectival scalar Quantity Implicature (QI) and I-Implicature. While …
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Experimental Investigations into how Children and Adults Process the Implicature Associated with the Scalar Term Some
A scalar implicature is the use of a weak term from a scale to implicate that a stronger term in the scale is not the intended meaning. For example, some is often interpreted as meaning some but not all, whereas logically its meaning is at least one. It is only in recent years that scalar …
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Children’s development of Quantity, Relevance and Manner implicature understanding and the role of the speaker’s epistemic state
… pragmatics, this implicated meaning – a quantity implicature – involves reasoning about the speaker’s epistemic state. This thesis examines children’s development of implicature understanding. It seeks to address the question of what the relationship is in development between quantity, relevance …
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A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
Part I of this dissertation proposes an implicature-based theory of individual-level predicates. The idea is that we cannot say '#John is sometimes tall' because the sentence triggers the scalar implicature that the alternative 'John is always tall' is false and this implicature mismatches with the …
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Structural competition in grammar
… 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 work on …
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Modularity and locality in interpretation
… objects that are used to derive candidates for implicature (the scalar alternatives of the asserted sentence), (4) That scalar implicatures and accommodated propositions are the output of Fox's [31] procedure of innocent exclusion, modified so as to consider implicature candidates and …
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Ignorance and grammar
In this thesis, I propose a new theory of implicature. I argue that the two main theories available so far - the (Neo-)Gricean pragmatic theory on the one hand (e.g., Sauerland (2004)), and the hybrid grammatical theory of scalar implicatures on the other hand (e.g., Fox (2007)) - cannot provide a …
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Implicatures in the DP domain
… these phenomena are reducible to the theory of implicatures. Second, I argue that an implicature-based approach to these phenomena offers a better empirical coverage of the relevant effects than previously achieved. Capitalizing on Magri (2009, 2011, 2014, and subsequent works), I will offer a …
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Speech Therapy
… The first paper modifies a Gricean account of implicature to accommodate implicature in the interrogative mood. I then argue that interrogative implicature can help us make better sense of certain kinds of common microaggressions. In the second paper, I focus more explicitly on the kinds of …
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Expletive negation and the decomposition of only
… up in Hebrew until-clauses. I discuss a scalar implicature arising from until-clauses which surprisingly becomes uncancellable when this negation is present. I argue that this inference becomes obligatory due to the presence of an only-like exhaustivity operator, which gets (partially) spelled …
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Joint inference in pragmatic reasoning
… a challenge to these accounts of pragmatics: M-implicatures [45] and embedded implicatures which violate Hurford's constraint [49, 16]. While techniques have been developed for deriving M-implicatures, Hurford-violating embedded implicatures pose a more fundamental challenge to the models' …
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Meaning change, in theory and in practice
… features related to truth, entailment, and implicature. It is presumed an account of language's diachronic features will follow. But the tools developed are imperfectly suited, and mask phenomena of interest. Chapter 1 concerns volitional meaning change of the sort advocated in conceptual …
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The roles of linguistic meaning and context in the concept of lying
… namely bare linguistic meaning, explicature, and implicature – to study whether the (in)directness of communicated false content affects the extent to which an utterance is judged as a lie. In addition, it manipulates several contextual factors – namely the genre of discourse, pre-existing biases …
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Parameterized monads in linguistics
… imperatives are produced, and the conventional implicature phenomenon in linguistics substantiated, using the framework. Interpreting donkey anaphora shows that parameterized monads is able to handle the sentential dependency. Therefore, this framework shows an expressive power equal to that of …
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