Lexical Pragmatics is a research field that tries to give a systematic and explanatory account of a number of pragmatic phenomena that are connected with the semantic underspecification of lexical items. The approach combines a constraint-based semantics with a Gricean mechanism of pragmatics. The basic pragmatic mechanism rests on conditions of updating the common ground and allows to give a p...

This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of implicatures: type Q (or scalar: "what is not referred to does not occur"); type I ("by default, it is not necessary to say what can be assumed"); ...

We introduce a corpus of 7,032 sentences rated by human annotators for formality, informativeness, and implicature on a 1-7 scale. The corpus was annotated using Amazon Mechanical Turk.1 Reliability in the obtained judgments was examined by comparing mean ratings across two MTurk experiments, and correlation with pilot annotations (on sentence formality) conducted in a more controlled setting. ...

In defining conventional implicature, Grice (1975) supplied terminology for reasoning about a group of secondary lexical entailments indicating speakers’ attitudes toward (parts of) their main assertions. The passage in question is potentially ground breaking: it draws a restrictive boundary around (Grice’s) pragmatic theory, and it homes in on a complex mode of expression that operates under t...

There is a controversial debate about which implicatures are triggered by logically complex sentences. This article introduces a novel experimental paradigm based on a game-theoretic design to test these implicatures. In particular, we investigated two cases adjudicating between different accounts of implicature (“Each girl found some of her marbles” and “Some of the girls found some of their m...

This research aimed to express the implicature of forms and functions in film Ajari Aku Islam. used descriptive qualitative research. The source was utterances among characters data were collected by listening taking notes technique with advanced method uninvolved conversation observation technique.The finding this that researcher found conventional conversational implicatures. revealed through...