Presuppositions and Implicatures in Comic Strips

Projecting Presuppositions with Scalar Implicatures

I present a system which reconciles free choice permission effect with other scalar implicatures. The core idea is to cluster together alternatives which are obtained by similar transformations of the original sentence (e.g., replacement of a given item with a stronger item). Interestingly, this system can be extended to account for presupposition projection.

Computing Presuppositions and Implicatures in Mathematical Discourse

In any well-written mathematical discourse a certain amount of mathematical and meta-mathematical knowledge is presupposed and implied. We give an account on presuppositions and implicatures in mathematical discourse and describe an architecture that allows to effectively interpret them. Our approach heavily relies on proof methods that capture common patterns of argumentation in mathematical d...

Anatomy comic strips.

Comics are powerful visual messages that convey immediate visceral meaning in ways that conventional texts often cannot. This article's authors created comic strips to teach anatomy more interestingly and effectively. Four-frame comic strips were conceptualized from a set of anatomy-related humorous stories gathered from the authors' collective imagination. The comics were drawn on paper and th...

Presuppositions vs. Scalar Implicatures in Aquisition

ComiKit – programming with comic strips

In this text I will present ComiKit, a programming toolkit for children that is based on the visual language of comics. I will discuss educational and object-oriented design considerations for comic strip programming tools, and elaborate on some of the problems that are not yet solved. For some parts of the text, I will assume a general knowledge of Smalltalk, and the eToys system for children ...