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Keller, Jill Leslie. "Conversational implicature and higher-order thinking in instructional conversations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185982.

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Results from curriculum enactment and sociolinguistic research have indicated that lessons are composed of information exchanges consisting of mostly facts and procedures that place little cognitive demand on students. Scholars from these areas have ascribed the characteristics of the school, teacher, student, management and task demands, or linguistic, and/or social context as explanations for those observations. They have not made a direct connection between how teachers and students decide who takes responsibility for providing the intellectual content of lessons and how that decision affec

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Chen, Rong. "Verbal irony as conversational implicature." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720333.

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This study offers a pragmatic account of verbal irony, arguing that verbal 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 inclusion of the notion of mutual knowledge in Grice's framework and 3)an establishment of speakers' motivation for violating Grice's Maxims. This motivation is subsumed into three principles--the Politeness Principle (PP) (follo

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Kasmirli, Maria. "Conversational implicature : re-assessing the Gricean framework." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16076/.

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Conversational implicature is (roughly) the practice of conveying one thing by saying another. Philosophical and linguistic work on the topic has been dominated by the approach proposed by Paul Grice — the Gricean framework, as I call it — according to which implicatures can be calculated from principles of cooperative behaviour. The framework faces numerous objections and counterexamples, however, and this thesis reassesses it in the light of recent work in the area. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the topic, provide a detailed exposition of the Gricean framework, and highlight a problem concernin

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Winn, Kerry Lynn. "Gunsmoke: An investigation of conversational implicature and Guns & Ammo magazine." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2069.

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Pagin, Amos. "Exploring the conjunction fallacy in probability judgment: Conversational implicature or extension neglect?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149346.

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According to the conjunction rule of probability theory, a conjunction of events cannot be more probable than either conjunct. However, participants often violate this rule in experimental settings, thus committing the conjunction fallacy. Why do participants commit this fallacy? One hypothesis suggests that participants interpret a task-critical statement designating the event A as designating the event A&notB. If so, participants do not commit the conjunction fallacy. Another hypothesis suggests that participants fail to take task-relevant relations of set inclusion into account when jud

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Welker, Katherine Alice. "Plans in the common ground : toward a generative account of conversational implicature /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487861396025341.

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Mazzaggio, Greta. "Reading between the Lines: Conversational Implicature Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/315670.

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This thesis' aim is to add some pieces to the complex puzzle on the mechanism behind the comprehension of conversational implicatures. To do so, in a series of experiment we manipulated both the type of implicatures (scalar vs. ad-hoc) and the population under investigation (typical vs. atypical; children vs. adults).

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Mazzaggio, Greta. "Reading between the Lines: Conversational Implicature Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/315670.

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This thesis' aim is to add some pieces to the complex puzzle on the mechanism behind the comprehension of conversational implicatures. To do so, in a series of experiment we manipulated both the type of implicatures (scalar vs. ad-hoc) and the population under investigation (typical vs. atypical; children vs. adults).

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Mazzaggio, Greta. "Reading Between the Lines: Conversational Implicature Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/367976.

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This thesis' aim is to add some pieces to the complex puzzle on the mechanism behind the comprehension of conversational implicatures. To do so, in a series of experiment we manipulated both the type of implicatures (scalar vs. ad-hoc) and the population under investigation (typical vs. atypical; children vs. adults).

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Mazzaggio, Greta. "Reading Between the Lines: Conversational Implicature Processing in Typical and Atypical Populations." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2019. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/3480/1/Mazzaggio_Greta_PhDthesis2019.pdf.

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This thesis' aim is to add some pieces to the complex puzzle on the mechanism behind the comprehension of conversational implicatures. To do so, in a series of experiment we manipulated both the type of implicatures (scalar vs. ad-hoc) and the population under investigation (typical vs. atypical; children vs. adults).

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Sinnott, Sarah T. "Address Forms in Castilian Spanish: Convention and Implicature." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275449503.

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Blažytė, Ingrida. "Nekontekstinė ir kontekstinė implikacija." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050531_215131-10387.

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The process of communication involves two types of meaning: explicit and implicit. An attempt is made to draw a distinction between two carriers of implicit meaning- presupposition and implicature. It is argued that presupposition is what the speaker assumes before making an utterance, and implicature is what the addressee infers from a linguistic structure used in an appropriate linguistic context. Implicature is of two types: non-contextual (or non-situational) and contextual (or situational). Although both types of implicature are determined by the context, they are generated using differen

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Szczepanski, Peter. "Flouting the maxims in scripted speech : An analysis of flouting the maxims of conversation in the television series Firefly." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-38455.

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Although conversations in television shows are supposed to mimic and represent everyday natural speech, they are written for a specific purpose. The aim of this paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most in the television series Firefly and analyse what the effects of these flouts are. Presented here is an analysis of how scripted conversation in the aforementioned television show is constructed. By applying Grice's cooperative principle and his theories on flouting and implicatures, certain patterns emerge that show recurring uses of flouts for specific effects. The results are bas

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Dornerus, Emma. "Breaking maxims in conversation : A comparative study of how scriptwriters break maxims in Desperate Housewives and That 70’s Show." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-19.

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<p>When we converse we constantly fail to observe the rules of conversation in order to simplify and make dialogues more effective. The scriptwriters who work with TV shows use non-observances of maxims in order to evoke different feelings from their viewers. The aim of this paper was to investigate how frequently non-observances of maxims occurred in the TV shows Desperate Housewives and That 70’s Show. I examined where and why they were used as well as how often flouting was used compared to violations. The base of the study was a drama and a comedy show.</p><p>Research has shown that the ma

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García, Odón Amaia. "Presupposition projection and entailment relations." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/94496.

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In this dissertation, I deal with the problem of presupposition projection. I mostly focus on compound sentences composed of two clauses and conditional sentences in which the second clause carries a presupposition. The central claim is that the presupposition carried by the second clause projects by default, with the exception of cases in which the presupposition entails the first clause (or, in disjunctive sentences, the negation of the first clause). In the latter cases, the presupposition should not project, since it is logically stronger than the first clause (or its negation). Thus, in

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Andresen, Niclas. "Flouting the maxims in comedy : An analysis of flouting in the comedy series Community." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-31687.

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This paper explores how flouting of the Gricean maxims is used to create comedy in the television series Community. The aim of the paper is to find out what maxims are flouted the most to create comedy and what maxims the different characters flout in order to create comedy. The paper examines the use of flouts in different situations and explores in what situations the different characters flout the maxims for comedy. The paper is based on transcription of eight episodes of the series. The results show that the maxim of quantity was flouted most often, and some characters used more flouts t

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Vik, Frida. "Breaking maxims in a crime drama : A study on non-observances of maxims in crime drama Blindspot." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184990.

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The conversational maxims are guidelines to how a conversation should be conducted, but sometimes these maxims can be broken for different reasons. The aim of this thesis is to identify breakings of the conversational maxims in the crime drama Blindspot and to study which maxims are broken, for what purpose the maxims are broken and if there are any changes to the number of maxims broken between different seasons of the series. The results show that the maxim of quantity is most frequently broken in the episode from season one and the maxim of quality is broken most frequently in the episodes

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Omara, Salma. "The comprehension of conversational implicatures : a cross- cultural study." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862271.

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Research shows that L2 learners' communicative problems are often pragmatic in nature. Pragmatic competence has been defined as the ability to recognize the force and the intended meaning of an utterance by making judgments about its appropriateness (Thomas 1983). Studies on interlanguage pragmatics have provided evidence that conversational strategies differ cross-linguistically and cross-culturally. Also, recent studies on the way native and nonnative speakers of English comprehend and understand conversational implicatures (Bouton 1988, 1989, 1990) have revealed that non-native speakers of

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Chemla, Emmanuel. "Présuppositions et implicatures scalaires : études formelles et expérimentales." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0164.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est de mettre en parallèle deux types d'inférences pragmatiques : les implicatures scalaires et les présuppositions. Dans une première partie, j'étudie les interactions possibles entre les deux phénomènes : les anti-présuppositions. Dans une deuxième partie, je m'intéresse au problème de la projection : comment prédire les présuppositions (ou les implicatures) d'une phrase complexe à partir des présuppositions (ou des implicatures) de ses parties ? J'établis de nouvelles données empiriques et psychologiques et présente une réponse unifiée à la question pour les deux p

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Dekavalla, Georgia. "Terror and Evil in Iraq : A Study of Political Discourse." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2631.

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<p>Abstract</p><p>This paper aims to determine the validity of the hypothesis that the effective and eloquent use of language can result in shaping beliefs and altering people’s perception of certain phenomena. In order to explore this hypothesis, a speech given by George W. Bush concerning the Iraq war is examined, followed by a brief study of two corpora, the Time Magazine Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English, where the collocationpatterns of the words Iraq, evil and terror are examined. The paper starts by presenting the main concepts upon which this study is based, i.e. m

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Lebedeva, Ekaterina. "Expression de la dynamique du discours à l'aide de continuations." Phd thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00783245.

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This thesis develops a theoretical formalism of formal semantics of natural language in the spirit of Montague semantics. The developed framework satisfies the principle of compositionality in a simple and elegant way, by being as parsimonious as possible: completely new formalisms or extensions of existing formalisms with even more complex constructions to fit particular linguistic phenomena have been avoided; instead, the framework handles these linguistic phenomena using only basic and well-established formalisms, such as simply-typed lambda calculus and classical logic. Dynamics is achieve

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Lebedeva, Ekaterina. "Expression de la dynamique du discours à l'aide de continuations." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LORR0025.

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Cette thèse développe un formalisme théorique pour la sémantique du discours. Il s'appuie sur l'extension des grammaires de Montague, sur la notion de continuation et sur les mécanismes de levée et de traitement des exceptions. Le formalisme permet de traiter des phénomènes dynamiques tels que les anaphores d'une phrase à l'autre, les présuppositions déclenchées par des référents et les projections présuppositions<br>This thesis develops a theoretical formalism that takes into account semantical discourse dynamics. It focuses on the extension of Montague semantic with the notion of continuatio

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Hung, Catherine, and 洪佑瑄. "Exploring Taiwanese EFL College Students’ Listening Comprehension of Conversational Implicature." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7784a6.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>96<br>Despite increasing interest in Interlanguage Pragmatics ILP) research, much of the work in ILP, to date, has been limited to L2 learners’ production of speech acts. Research on the comprehension of pragmatic function, however, has been scarce, particularly in the area of conversational implicature. Although conversational implicature as a conversational strategy is well known, it is not clear whether it is a useful conversational strategy for EFL learners. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the extent to which EFL learners can comprehend conversational im

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Šmilauerová, Anna. "Televizní seriál Přátelé: Analýza humorných situací vzniklých porušováním Griceových maxim." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310909.

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Anna Šmilauerová: TV Sitcom Friends: Analysis of character humor strategies based on the violation of Grice's Conversational maxims Abstract The purpose of this diploma thesis is the analysis of the humor strategies employed by the characters of Phoebe and Chandler in the TV Sitcom Friends. The discovered prevailing strategies were then compared with the personalities of the two characters. The data analyzed were the written script of five exemplary episodes from the Season 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9, in which the utterances eliciting laughter from the audience were thoroughly analyzed from the point of

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BEAUDIN, CURT MICHAEL, and 柯博登. "A Study of English Majors' Comprehension of Conversational Implicatures." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yxc4bc.

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博士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>英語學系<br>107<br>This study investigated the ability of English majors to comprehend implicatures of varying types. More specifically, a comparison was made between freshmen and seniors on their ability to complete a listening comprehension test that consisted of four types of implicatures. Furthermore, the English proficiency level of the students was also used to try and determine if proficiency level would be a strong predictor for success on comprehending implicatures. Finally, the difficulty level of each type of implicature was evaluated and compared based on the number o

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