The information structure categories of Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus are examined to see their crucial roles in polarity and (conventional) implicature generation and implicature suspension and their respective correlatins with PA and SN conjunctions on one hand and descriptive (denotational) negation and metalinguistic negation on the other. The underlying notion of concessivity inv...

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In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager which is able to infer and negotiate causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature, and the ability to infer them is crucial in situated dialogue. Because situated dialogue interleaves conversational acts and physical acts, the dialogue manager needs to have a grasp on causal implicatures in order no...

By contrast, the global implicature in (1c), though entailed by (1b), does not have a similar corresponding implicature of the embedded clause when it appears unembedded. For this reason, the local/global distinction is relevant only in complex sentences. In simplex sentence such as (2a) the local and global implicatures are one and the same. The fact that (1a) has the local implicature in (1b)...

In a typical conversation, Speakers are assumed to be committed to the content of their utterances. Recent research has uncovered several linguistic expressions or prosodic contours that convey subtle interactions between the commitments of discourse agents and the presumed source of the information. Another such case is that of Transparent Free Relatives, as in That’s an instance of what pragm...

In his recent paper on the symmetry problem Roni Katzir argues that “the only relevant factor” for the calculation of any Quantity implicature “is structure” (, ). My rst aim here is to refute Katzir by providing three examples that show that structural complexity is irrelevant to the calculation of some Quantity implicatures. My second aim is to cast doubt on the advisability of assumin...

The present study aimed to analyze the stylistic features especially conversational implicature of poem “Jabberwocky” written by Lewis Carroll. Implicature theory was cooperative principle Paul Grice use analyze. Two reasons support uses this theory. method used Documentation with note-taking and highlighting technique. First, taken from novel entitled Through Looking-Glass What Alice Found The...