In terms of Groenendijk and Stokhof’s (1984) formalization of exhaustive interpretation, many conversational implicatures can be accounted for. In this paper we justify and generalize this approach. Our justification proceeds by relating their account via Halpern and Moses’ (1984) nonmonotonic theory of ‘only knowing’ to the Gricean maxims of Quality and the first sub-maxim of Quantity. The app...

This paper examines the linguistic realization of conventional implicatures, taking the semantics and pragmatics of the Japanese adverbials sekkaku and yokumo as a test case. It is shown that their meanings involve an interesting and hitherto unstudied mix of asserted and conventionally implicated content. An extension of Potts’s (2005) LCI logic for supplementary conventional implicatures is p...

The issue of how to account for the interpretation of ‘only’ has always been exciting and challenging. Over the years many sophisticated proposals have been brought forward, but ‘only’ always managed to strike back by exposing another new and strange property. In this paper we will argue that there is a way to approach the meaning of ‘only’ that can deal with some of its well-known challenges b...

This research aims 1) to find the types of implicature and examine realization cooperative principle found in animated web drama speech, 2) speech. The success communication can be seen use language relation context (pragmatics) it is also not uncommon films, there are many implied meanings expressed form implicatures conveyed. used Grice’s theory (1975) principles implicatures. data speech con...

Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal FC items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as implicatures obtained by standard Gricean reasoning formalised in terms of the two operations grice and competence. On th...

Extending the proposal made by Schulz (2003), we put forward a pragmatic account of the meaning of existential and universal FC items, where the ‘ignorance or indifference’ inference triggered by the former and the ‘universal’ inference triggered by the latter are treated as implicatures obtained by standard gricean reasoning formalized in terms of the two operations grice and competence. On th...

I provide an overview of current theories of scalar implicature: the pragmatic (or Gricean), the lexical and the grammatical theory. The empirical focus are global and local, but also intermediate implicatures. I argue that the grammatical theory is conceptually less well motivated than even a combination of the pragmatic and the lexical theory, and that the grammatical theory therefore require...

Scalar implicatures (SIs) belong to the species of Quantity-based conversational implicatures, which are derived based on the maxim of Quantity 1, which compels speakers to be as informative as is required. If a speaker makes a statement that is less informative than is required in the given context, the hearer may compute a Quantity-based implicature to the effect that the speaker did not prov...

While previous sentiment analysis research has concentrated on the interpretation of explicitly stated opinions and attitudes, this work addresses a type of opinion implicature (i.e., opinion-oriented default inference) in real-world text. This work describes a rule-based conceptual framework for representing and analyzing opinion implicatures. In the course of understanding implicatures, the s...