Redefining Cablaka "Banyumasan Way of Speaking": Is It Totally Explicature?

Word Meaning , What is Said , and Explicature

In his logic of conversation, Paul Grice made an important distinction between two kinds of act that speakers may perform when uttering a sentence and, correspondingly, two kinds or levels of speaker meaning: (i) saying, hence what is said, and (ii) implicating, hence what is implicated (implicature) (Grice 1975). The distinction between what is said and what is implicated can be seen as one in...

Implicature and Explicature

The explicature/implicature distinction is one manifestation of the distinction between the explicit content of an utterance and its implicit import. On certain ‘minimalist’ approaches, the explicit/implicit distinction is equated with the semantics/pragmatics distinction or with Paul Grice’s saying/implicating distinction. However, the concept of ‘explicature’, which belongs to the relevance-t...

Explicature and semantics

According to the relevance-theoretic account, identifying what is communicated explicitly by an utterance (its explicature) involves several pragmatic processes: disambiguation, saturation of indexical elements, the recovery of unarticulated constituents and ad hoc concept construction, both of the latter being free from any linguistic indication. This is at odds with a current philosophical po...

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The CORAS Language – why it is designed the way it is

CORAS1 [6] is an approach to risk analysis based on the ISO 31000 international standard on risk management [4]. The approach is model-driven in the sense that graphical models are actively used throughout the whole risk analysis process to support the various analysis tasks and activities, and to document the results. It is defensive, which means that the risk analysis is concerned with protec...