Sentences with disjunction in the scope of a possibility modal often convey something stronger than predicted under the standard semantics for modals and disjunction, roughly paraphrasable in terms of a wide scope conjunction. You may have beer or wine, for example, is naturally understood as conveying that you may have beer and that you may have wine. This ‘puzzle of free choice permission’ (R...

In his paper ‘Logic and conversation’ Grice (1989: 37) introduced a distinction between generalized and particularized conversational implicatures. His notion of a generalized conversational implicature (GCI) has been developed in two competing directions, by neo-Griceans such as Horn (1989) and Levinson (1983, 1987b, 1995, 2000) on the one hand, and relevance theorists such as Sperber & Wilson...

This thesis is a both a descriptive and theoretical examination of implicatures, parts of the contextual meanings of utterances that are separate from their sense, their main point. The empirical taxonomy I describe draws on the work of Grice (1975), but fleshes out two important subcategories of implicature that he did not discuss in detail. One of these subcategories is the conventional impli...

Normally is not intended to incite the listener to speak ill of those people who are not his or her friends An accent on our friends does however change the meaning of the sentence in this direction In the aforementioned textbooks a remark on accent such as this one is usually presented as part of a discussion on informal logic which which bears little or no relation to the material on formal p...

If a speaker tells us that “some guests were late to the party,” we typically infer that not all were. Implicatures, in which an ambiguous statement (“some and possibly all”) is strengthened pragmatically (to “some and not all”), are a paradigm case of pragmatic reasoning. Inferences of this sort are difficult for young children, but recent work suggests that this mismatch may stem from issues ...

This article will discuss the context of implications and explications language spoken in an early episode a film/lokadrama by YouTuber who is also Bayu Skak actor. The data were analyzed with Grice's theory regarding explicators implicatures. research method used descriptive qualitative. film "Lara Ati" typical East Javanese drama accent "Urip lan karep ora sedalan" which gives meaning that li...

The relationship between semantic and pragmatic interpretation has been a perennial puzzle in psycholinguistics. General agreement about the existence of these levels of interpretation contrasts with controversy in the field over exact boundaries between these representations and their relationship in real-time processing. Past research has demonstrated that pragmatic processing is rapid, often...