When the teeth of the digger bucket bit into the ditch vegetation at the edge of Croghan bog in County Offaly, Larry Corley noticed something solid sticking out of the cleaned drain. Jumping out of his cab, and bending down, he was shocked to find it was a human arm, ending in a huge thumb (Grice 2006: 19). He reported it immediately to the local Gardaí, and Det. Sgt. Eadaoín Campbell was sent ...

The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for such facts within the AM model, the article develo...

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that studies how context affects meaning and human language can be perceived differently. All our communications rely on the compatibility interpreters interpreted. Communication issues resolved by improving speaker listener interaction. Therefore, working together, comprehend two meanings in single phrase. The more comprehensive intercultural aspect shown ...

The notion of implicature was first introduced by Grice (1967, 1989), who defined it essentially as what is communicated less what is said. This definition contributed in part to the proliferation of a large number of different species of implicature by neo-Griceans. Relevance theorists have responded to this by proposing a shift back to the distinction between explicit and implicit meaning (co...

The first four sections of the paper focus on characterizing the elements that enter into the characterization of the notion of discourse context. One way of doing so is by identifying this notion with the set of commonly presupposed items. I propose a multi-agent account of context where it is essential to represent what each agent takes as being commonly presupposed, aside from what is common...

RESUMO Apesar de terem sido estudos realizados por autores diferentes e certa forma independente um do outro, as teorias das Implicaturas Paul Grice dos Atos Discurso Indiretos John Searle não apenas estão intimamente ligadas como, na verdade, são complementares entre si, modo que se mostra crucial importância a compreensão dois juntos, fim obter maior domínio da noção “não literalidade” enunci...

This paper addresses "kinds and focuses of relevance" that a language-generating clinical decision-support system should adhere to during activities in which a health care provider's attention is on his or her patient and not on a computer screen. During such "patient-centered" activities, utterances generated by a computer system intrude on patient management. They must be thus seen by HCPs as...

Abstract The author argues that there is no such thing as a unique and general taxonomy of non-at-issue contents. Accordingly, we ought to shun large categories “conventional implicature” (Grice), “F-implicature” (Horn), “ CI ” (Potts), “Class B” (Tonhauser, Beaver, Roberts & Simons) or the like. As an alternative, may, first, describe “semantic profile” linguistic devices accurately possib...