15 INTRODUCTION 16 EXPERIMENT 1 18 METHOD 19 RESULTS 21 DISCUSSION 22 EXPERIMENT 2 23 METHOD 23 RESULTS 24 DISCUSSION 26 EXPERIMENT 3 27 METHOD 27 RESULTS 28 GENERAL DISCUSSION 29 REFERENCES 33 CHAPTER 3 ‘BUT’ HOW DO WE REASON WITH IT: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPLICATURE STEMMING FROM ‘BUT’ 35 ABSTRACT 35 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 METHOD 4435 INTRODUCTION 36 EXPERIMENT 1 44 M...

This study focuses on conversational implicatures in humorous utterances. In pragmatics, implicature analysis is used to reveal the additional meaning or implied of speech conveyed by speaker. An can occur because a violation principle conversation. Conversational (especially) only appears context certain utterances and has an meaning. utterance conversation imply pragmatic function implicitly ...

This research discusses implicature in the Anime Blue Period. The purpose of this is to explain how meaning and intent implicatures uses theory proposed by Yule (1996) on a analysis means ends Leech(1993). method qualitative descriptive method. data obtained listening converversation spoken characters, then utterances containing will be recorded marked. result study found as many 20 Period, nam...

I give a new account of neg-raising with belief predicates as scaleless implicatures, inferences that are predicted by grammatical theories scalar when quantifier projects subdomain alternatives but no alternative. argue the inference should be treated an implicature because parallels observed in its distribution and other known cases implicatures (namely typical free choice effects, reported i...

1. Introduction The main topic of this paper is the phenomenon of scalar implicature. Typical examples are given in (1)-(4): (1) a. Bill has got some of Chomsky's papers. b. The speaker believes that Bill hasn't got all of Chomsky's papers. (2) a. There will be five of us for dinner tonight. b. There won't be more than five of us for dinner tonight. (3) a. X: I like Mary. She's intelligent and ...