Embedded implicature: what can be left unsaid?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Processing scalar implicature: What can individual differences tell us?
There is much current debate about processing scalar implicature, but a considerable body of empirical evidence seems to support the idea that it requires additional time and effort on the part of the hearer (e.g. Breheny, Katsos and Williams 2005, Bott and Noveck 2004 and many others). The goal of this study was to contribute to our understanding of the cognitive processes that go on as compre...
متن کاملSome Truths Are Best Left Unsaid
We study the formal properties of extensions of the basic public announcement logic by standard modal axioms such as D, T, 2, 4, and 5. We show that some of them fail to be conservative extensions of the underlying modal logic. This leads us to propose new truth conditions for announcements that better suit these extensions. The corresponding reduction axioms postulate the suitability of the up...
متن کاملSome things are better left unsaid.
In law enforcement, as in radiology, it is customary to ask a witness (in our case our trainees) to repeatedly describe an observed event (in our situation the imaging findings). Sometimes we ask our trainees to describe the features of different lesions even when they are not looking at images. This is based on our belief that repeated verbal processing builds mental images that we can all lat...
متن کاملO5: Technical Accident Reconstruction-What Can be Learned to Improve Medical Treatment in Trauma Patients
Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...
متن کاملInhibitory Control of Thoughts Better Left Unsaid
An experiment explored the hypothesis that inhibitory ability helps people stop themselves from engaging in socially inappropriate behavior. All participants completed a Stroop color-naming task, after which half of the participants were asked to remember an eight-digit number (inducing divided attention). Participants were then offered an unfamiliar and visually unappetizing food product (a ch...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics and Philosophy
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0165-0157,1573-0549
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-020-09310-x