Grice’s distinction between what is said and what is implicated has greatly clarified our understanding of the boundary between semantics and pragmatics. Although border disputes still arise and there are certain difficulties with the distinction itself (see the end of §1), it is generally understood that what is said falls on the semantic side and what is implicated on the pragmatic side. But ...

Knott's empirical study of cue phrases has resulted in a taxonomic classiication of some 150 cue phrases. The taxonomy can be viewed as a partial ordering on the set of phrases, and hence we can view cue phrase selection in terms of scalar implicature, following Hirschberg. We draw out some of the immediate consequences of this view, including the problematic status of the conventional/conversa...

Opinions may be expressed implicitly via inference over explicit sentiments and events that positively/negatively affect entities (goodFor/badFor events). We investigate how such inferences may be exploited to improve sentiment analysis, given goodFor/badFor event information. We apply Loopy Belief Propagation to propagate sentiments among entities. The graph-based model improves over explicit ...

I seek to mediate this debate. I describe a general framework for interactional models of implicature and then assess the major arguments for grammar-driven approaches. My central findings are that many of these arguments are conceptually or theoretically problematic, and that the valid ones do not compromise the Gricean picture. Stepping back, I find that the two sides in this debate are not r...

Abstract Formal theories of scalar implicature appeal crucially to a set alternatives. These are the alternative statements that speaker could have made but chose not in pragmatic accounts, and figure computation exhaustivity operators grammatical approaches. I show three sufficiently explicit alternatives literature generate sets grow at least exponentially as function input, these very large ...

This research aims to reveal the types and implied meaning of implicature found in an online lecture courses English education study program at one university Yogyakarta. In this using descriptive qualitative methods by a theory from Grice (1975). The data findings consist three main implicatures generalized conversational with 14.3%, particularized 8.6% conventional 8.6%. Then, four functions ...