Abstract In the current debate on lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count implicatures cases of lying. What matters for them (degree) commitment to Since conversational may arise with non-assertions, presuppositions are...

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...

Abstract A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that didn’t take both classes ( exclusivity ) and the speaker doesn’t know which of two she ignorance ). The corresponding with a possibility modal, can , instead free choice These inferences are argued by many to be scalar implicatures. Recent work has looked at cases in appear computed presupposition level, independentl...

In this paper, we present a game theoretic account of a subclass of ‘relevance’ implicatures arising from irrelevant answers. We show that these phenomena can be explained if we assume that interlocutors agree on production and interpretation strategies that are robust against small ‘trembles’ in the speaker’s production strategy. In this context, we argue for a new pragmatic principle which we...

I propose a new theory of scalar implicatures: the speaker should be in the same epistemic status with respect to alternatives obtained via similar transformations (e.g., replacements of a scalar items with various stronger items). This theory extends naturally to explain presupposition projection. Cases where scalar items and presupposition triggers co-occur are also accounted for. The main fo...

Recent experimental evidence suggests that adults incorporate speaker knowledge into the derivation of pragmatic implicatures. Developmental studies report that 5-year-old children also succeed in taking speaker knowledge into account in implicature computation, but 4-year-olds fail. The present study investigated the pragmatic competence of 4year-olds, specifically the ability to incorporate s...

The notion of implicature is not precisely defined, and may be compared to a concept with prototypical and peripheral instances. A prototypical implicature is a particularized conversational implicature as first proposed by Grice (1975), in which the implicature is intended by the speaker, dependent on the particular context of utterance, and calculated by identifiable inferential steps, includ...