Standard implementations of Grice’s theory of conversational implicature assume that the derivation an implicature always begins with a single proposition expressed by means of a sentence in a given context. Against this received view, I argue that, in at least three ways, implicatures are discourse-based rather than proposition-based. First, in some cases an implicature can only be derived fro...

This research is aimed to identify the types of conversational implicature in dialogue characters The Croods movie and interpret meaning each implicatures that found movie. In conducting this research, writer uses descriptive qualitative as a method analyze data. theory proposed by Grice occur data are collected watching reading script movie, which then selects dialogues identified implicature....

The history of conventional implicatures is rocky, their current status uncertain. It seems wise to return to their source and start fresh, with an open-minded reading of the original definition (Grice, 1975) and an eye open for novel support. Suppose the textbook examples (therefore, even, but and synonyms) disappeared. Where would conventional implicatures be then? This paper argues that they...

We survey three domains – scalar implicatures, presupposition, and conventional implicatures – in which the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics has given rise to new empirical and formal insights in the last decade. In each case, there is a vibrant contemporary debate concerning the modular decomposition of rich arrays of data.

Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like "The pianist played some Mozart sonatas" is interpreted, as "The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas" have been given two different analyses. Neo-Griceans (NG) claim that this interpretation is based on lexical scales (e.g., ), where the stronger term (e.g., all) implies the weaker term (e.g., some), but the weaker term (e....

According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of Grice's (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like Atlas & Levinson (1981) and Horn (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles. In this paper I want to argue that (i) there are major problems for reducing Gricean pragmatics to these two principles, and (ii) that, in ...

Second or foreign language (L2) learners’ development of interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) competence to understand and properly interpret utterances under certain social and cultural circumstances plays a pivotal role in the achievement of communicative competence. The current study was designed to explore the effects of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) and asynchronous com...

A long-standing open question concerns the cost or effort involved in processing scalar implicatures (SIs). When we hear “Some of the boxes are red”, we go beyond the literal meaning of “some” and infer that not all of the boxes are red. According to the Default view [1] hearers compute these kinds of SIs (generalized conversational implicatures) quickly, costlessly, and automatically. In contr...

This article proposes a model for the computation of scalar implicatures in cases where one scalar term is in the scope of another. It shows that a crossproduct of two quantitative scales yields the appropriate scale for many such cases. One exception are cases involving disjunction. Here, it proposes a treatment that makes use of a novel, partially ordered scale for disjunction and capitalizes...