Implicature is a theoretical construct which was first introduced by Grice in the William James Lectures at Harvard in 1967 and was later published in 1975 under the title Logic and Conversation. Grice’s basic idea was to clarify the difference between what is expressed literally in a sentence and what is merely suggested or hinted at by the utterance of the same string of words. To distinguish the latter from the former‚ Grice (1975) uses the neologisms implicate and implicature‚ while he refers
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CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE INTRODUCTION During the time doing this assignment‚ I accidentally brought back a memory when I was a student. My roommate was a very charming girl‚ who made many boys’ hearts beat. One day‚ a boy came to see her and said‚ “Would you like to go to the cinema with me tonight?” She replied‚ “Well‚ that’s a good idea. But I’ve got some folks coming over tonight.” He insisted on asking her‚ “So you are still able to go with me‚ right? Please‚ there’s a very good
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 398 742 FL 024 044 AUTHOR TITLE Bouton‚ Lawrence F. Can NNS Skill in Interpreting Implicature in American English Be Improved through Explicit Instruction?--A Pilot Study. PUB DATE NOTE 94 PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS IDENTIFIERS 23p.; In: Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph Series‚ Volume 5‚ p89-109‚ 1994; see FL 014 038. Reports Research/Technical (143) MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. College Students; Comparative Analysis; *English (Second
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE USED BY THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN GUY RITCHIE’S SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) [pic] By: Ratih Santi Mianawati 08211141027 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS YOGYAKARTA STATE UNIVERSITY 2011 1. Title of Research : A Pragmatic Analysis of Conversational Implicature used by the Main Characters in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009) Personal identity :
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1.1 The concept of deictic centre Deixis deals with the words and expressions whose reference relies entirely on the circumstances of the utterance. For that reason these special expressions and their meaning in discourse can only be understood in light of these circumstances. The term deictic centre underlines that the deictic term has to relate to the situation exactly at the point where the utterance is made or the text is written. One could even say that the deictic centre is the unmarked
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so‚ whether intentionally‚ unconsciously‚ or unpretentiously‚ the speaker creates triggers for particular conversational implicatures‚ which lend themselves to the ironic interpretation of the verbal utterance.
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Lecturer : Frangky Silitonga S.Pd‚ M.Si PUTERA BATAM UNIVERSITY 2014 ABSTRACT This paper aimed to elaborate the implied meaning in the utterances of the speakers in a daily conversation and disclose the effect of using Conversational Implicature and its maxims. Something very important here was the context of the speech was delivered‚ and paid attention to the background knowledge of people whom involved in it. To analysis meaning implied in a conversation is the important thing by which
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expressed meaning and implied meaning‚ in other words what is said and what is meant. Grice claimed that there are two kinds of implicature‚ in other words the part of an utterance that is meant but not strictly said out loud: conventional implicature and conversational implicature (Thomas 1995:57). Since this paper treats comedy it will mainly focus on conversational implicature. Grice’s four maxims are‚ if not rules‚ but way of means to allow us to say things indirectly in order to avoid discomfort
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Grice advanced the notions of cooperative principle and implicature together with Gricean maxims of conversation to illustrate how people are able to communicate with each other given that their utterances could be comprehended in many possible ways. The underlying assumption of Grice’s cooperative principle is that people tend to be cooperative in most conversational exchanges in order to construct meaningful conversation. The cooperative principle‚ as stated in Grice’s “Logic and Conversation”
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MASTER IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS MASTER DISSERTATION THE ROLE OF CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS‚ IMPLICATURE AND PRESUPPOSITION IN THE CREATION OF HUMOUR: AN ANALYSIS OF WOODY ALLEN’S ANYTHING ELSE Department of English Philology I‚ UCM STUDENT: Ramiro Nieto Álvaro TUTOR: Dr. Marta Begoña Carretero Lapeyre Septiembre de 2011 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................4
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