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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"conversational implicatures"”.
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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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Pragmatic competence in the target language : a study of Iranian learners of English
… a new questionnaire to measure the knowledge of conversational implicatures and presuppositions of Farsi learners of English. The results indicate that Iranian learners of English lack the knowledge of conversational implicatures and presuppositions in English.
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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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Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory
… in a comparison of painted gestures to conversational implicatures and guidelines are given for establishing meaningful and relevant dialogues with the paintings, presupposing the importance of an intangible context as defined by the reconstruction of authorial intent and anticipated …
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
… paper explains Saul's proposed solution based on conversational implicatures and argues against it. Then I introduce a different solution called the Shifty-Fregean solution, which states that proper names in some contexts refer to their senses rather than the reference. The paper argues that this …
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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 …