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...

Implicature is the study of how to understand speaker’s meaning which stated indirectly. This deals with conversational implicature found Paper Towns movie script in John Green’s movie. The objectives are analyse types used debate and explains ways performing by characters. qualitative research was this research. Grice’s (1975) applied analysing data. result showed that there were two character...

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...

In English teaching, teachers have always attached great importance to exploring scientific listening teaching methods improve students' comprehension ability. order the mode, scholars in both China and other countries done a series of studies. However, there is little research on effectiveness conversational implicature improving ability majors. Therefore, through empirical research, this pape...

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...