Abstract According to Grice’s analysis, conversational implicatures are carried by the saying of what is said (Grice 1989: 39). In this paper, it argued that, whenever a speaker implicates content flouting one or several maxims, her implicature not only act and way it, but also non-saying should have been according would normal say in that particular context. Implicatures arise without maxim vi...

It cannot be denied that Indonesian people separated from the name of mixing codes in communicating. In addition, communicating it is not uncommon to find messages sent interlocutor irrelevant their literal meaning. That is, speech contains a conversational implicature. The purpose this study look at form implicature and mix talk show Mata Najwa Exclusive Episode: Ganjar Pranowo World Cup. This...

This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of implicatures: type Q (or scalar: "what is not referred to does not occur"); type I ("by default, it is not necessary to say what can be assumed"); ...

In English, equatives can be formed with a numeral or measure phrase (MP) standard (e.g. John can dive as deep as 500m; Rett, 2010). These ‘measure phrase equatives’ (MPEs) differ semantically from their clausal counterparts (e.g. John can dive as deep as Sue can) in two important ways. First, while clausal standards set lower bounds, resulting in an ‘at least’ interpretation of the equative, M...

This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been rejected by their conversational partners. It expands on previous work by showing that logical consistency is a necessary indicator of acceptance, but that it is not sufficient, and that logical inconsistency is sufficient as an indicator of rejection, but it is not n...

This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been accepted or rejected by their conversational partners. It expands on previous work by showing that logical consistency is a necessary indicator of acceptance, but that it is not suucient, and that logical inconsistency is suucient as an indicator of rejection, but it ...

This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been accepted or rejected by their conversational partners. It expands on previous work by showing that logical consistency is a necessary indicator of acceptance, but that it is not sufficient, and that logical inconsistency is sufficient as an indicator of rejection, but...