Tag: pragmatics

Relational Social Deixis

Relational social deixis explores how language use, particularly pronouns and honorifics, signals…

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Quantity Implicature: The Art of Saying More by Saying Less

Quantity implicature, a concept in pragmatics, describes how speakers imply more than…

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Quality Implicature

Quality implicature refers to the unspoken assumptions made about the quality or…

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Proximate Person Deixis

Proximate person deixis refers to the use of words like 'I,' 'you,'…

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Presupposition Trigger

A presupposition trigger is a word or phrase that signals the existence…

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Presupposition Denial

Presupposition denial is a linguistic phenomenon where a speaker challenges an underlying…

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Presupposition in Linguistics and Philosophy

A presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief…

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Potential Presupposition

A potential presupposition is an unstated assumption that must be true for…

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Potential Implicature

Potential implicature refers to what a speaker might suggest or imply, even…

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Place Deixis

Place deixis refers to words or phrases that indicate spatial location relative…

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