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5 results for "implicature"

ZG_5_03 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_5_03 — Pragmatics: Context, Implicature, and Speech Acts

Pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning — how speakers use language to accomplish actions, how listeners infer intended meanings beyond what is literally said, and how the social, physical, and disc

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ZG_2_18 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_2_18 — Pragmatics & Speech Act Theory: Language in Context, Meaning Beyond Words

Pragmatics — the branch of linguistics concerned with how context, speaker intention, shared knowledge, and social relationships contribute to meaning beyond the literal semantic content of words — addresses a fundamenta

pragmatics speech-act-theory illocutionary-force implicature conversational-maxims performative-utterance
ZG_3_10 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_10 — Semantics: Meaning, Reference, and Compositional Analysis

Semantics — the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning — investigates how words, phrases, and sentences encode and convey meaning, how meanings combine compositionally, and how linguistic meaning relates to the wor

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ZG_3_18 Credible Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_18 — Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory

Pragmatics — the study of how context contributes to meaning beyond what is encoded in the literal words of an utterance — and speech act theory — the analysis of language as a form of action — have been foundational to

pragmatics speech-act-theory john-austin john-searle grice conversational-implicature
P_5_05 Verified Philosophy & Meaning

P_5_05 — Philosophy of Language

The philosophy of language asks: How do words and sentences get their meaning? How does language connect to reality? Can thought exist without language? Is meaning determined by the speaker's intention, by social convent

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