Many works of literature stress the significance meaning in communication. Thus, a great number researchers have conducted studies on implicature using novels as data sources. However, most them focused conventional and conversational implicatures. When principle politeness is disregarded, there still ambiguity it should be used basis for analysis. As widely known that violated conversation doe...

Recent investigations of the acquisition of scalar implicature report that young children do not reliably reject a sentence with a weak scalar term, e.g. 'some of the books are red', when it is used as a description of a situation where a stronger statement is true, e.g. where all the books are red. This is taken as evidence that children do not interpret the sentence with the implicature that ...

2 I. According to some formulations of the theory of Direct Reference the semantic value, relative to a context of utterance, of rigid singular terms such as proper names and indexicals is just their referent. This position seems to preclude an accurate account of such terms as they behave in natural languages, since it is easy to construct examples of coreferential rigid singular terms embedde...

This study examines the processing of the implicature of “might” (NOT must). The literature on implicatures contains both studies that suggest rapid computation of scalar implicatures, and studies that provide evidence for extra processing costs in generating them. The present study extends existing work by comparing “might” to “must”, and by adapting a paradigm that integrates experimental sen...

Despite their considerable communicative abilities, young children often have difficulty interpreting complex linguistic structures in context. Two examples of this phenomenon are negation and pragmatic implicature, both of which pose sometimes surprising difficulties for preschoolers. Both of these structures require children to resist a more salient alternative interpretation; since executive...

In the right situation, a speaker can use an unqualified indefinite description without being misunderstood. This use of language, normal slate implicature, is a kind of conversational implicature, i.e. a non-truth-functional context-dependent inference based upon language users' awareness of principles of cooperative conversation. I present a convention for identifying normal state implicature...

In the current paper, we investigate existence of a shared derivation mechanism between manner and quantity implicature. As per Gricean-inspired perspective, both implicature are derived in substantially analogous fashion, relying on consideration alternative ways which speaker could have spoken, but didn’t. contrast, other accounts (e.g., grammatical accounts) consider to be distinct their der...