Conversational Implicature
The concept of conversational implicature is due to the work of Paul Grice, and in particular to his paper "Logic and Conversation," which was delivered in 196...
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Pragmatics [addendum]
A major focus of post-Gricean pragmatics is the role that pragmatic inference plays in determining the explicit content of utterances (as opposed to their conversational implicat...
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Pragmatics
"Pragmatics" was defined by Charles W. Morris (1938) as the branch of semiotics that studies the relation of signs to interpreters, in contrast with semantics, which studies t...
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MOSCOW, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The opposition victory in
Poland's parliamentary election at the weekend could be the
first step to normalising relations with Moscow, a senior
Russian official was quot...
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Beijing (dpa) - Myanmar's ruling junta has promised a Chinese
envoy that it will take "positive and pragmatic measures" to speed up
its "road map" towards democratic reform,...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - Cross-cultural difference come to the fore in
the month of Ramadan for many Muslims in the Netherlands, but a sense
of humour on both sides combined with t...
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
will slow his self-styled revolution with a dose of pragmatism
but will not veer from his goal of building a socialist state
despite a stunning...
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France's new immigration minister ruled out the possibility of legalizing undocumented immigrants on masse, saying Monday that government policy would be firm and pragmatic.Brice Hortefeux heads th...
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Jerusalem (dpa) - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan
arrived in Israel Wednesday morning for a "historic" visit to discuss
peace on behalf of Arab states.
...
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Dublin (dpa) - Calling it a "sensible and pragmatic approach to
modernising the European Union," the Irish Prime Minister Bertie
Ahern Thursday urged the Irish public to sup...
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Conversational Implicature
Russia hopes for "more pragmatic" ties with Poland
