We present two experiments investigating the production of implicit constructions. Using a confederate scripting paradigm we find that after making an inference participants were more likely to subsequently produce an implicature. This effect occurred at a global and a local level and was unaffected by the perceived role of the conversational partner. Our findings demonstrate that the choice of...

This study aims to determine the conversational implicature contained in short story Mata Monkey by Aris Kurniawan. The method used this research is a descriptive analysis method. studied with direct-literal speech acts, direct-inliteral and indirect-literal acts. From results of study, data obtained were 11 implicatures different Therefore, paper will describe these according acts used.

This paper aimed to investigate new ways of understanding non-cooperative attitudes of the speakers and the violation of Cooperative Principle maxims in real Iranian psychological consulting session. The data base consists of recorded conversations between a male psychotherapist and his patients during therapy sessions. After analysing their language by means of conversational implicature and t...

How do comprehenders reason about pragmatically ambiguous scalar terms like some in complex syntactic contexts? In many pragmatic theories of conversational implicature, local exhaustification of such terms (‘only some’) is predicted to be difficult or impossible if the result does not entail the literal meaning, whereas grammatical accounts predict such construals to be robustly available. Rec...

Lexical Pragmatics is a research field that tries to give a systematic and explanatory account of pragmatic phenomena that are connected with the semantic underspecification of lexical items. Cases in point are the pragmatics of adjectives, systematic polysemy, the distribution of lexical and productive causatives, blocking phenomena, the interpretation of compounds, and many phenomena presentl...

We all know by now that the totality of what is conveyed by a linguistic utterance includes multiple types or categories of content. The categories are distinguished in two main ways: how they arise (e.g. due to linguistic convention or due to normbased inference); and how particular contents of that category behave (e.g. whether the content can embed under operators). The principal types of co...

This paper explores the interface between pragmatics and argumentation by considering impact of different types implicit meaning on rhetorical effects. On front drawing classical rhetoric but going beyond Aristotelian triangle (ethos, logos, pathos), discusses an open list effects affecting speakers, audiences, messages conversational flow interaction. pragmatic front, accounts for how specific...