Relational Social Deixis
Relational social deixis explores how language use, particularly pronouns and honorifics, signals…
Quantity Implicature: The Art of Saying More by Saying Less
Quantity implicature, a concept in pragmatics, describes how speakers imply more than…
Quality Implicature
Quality implicature refers to the unspoken assumptions made about the quality or…
Proximate Person Deixis
Proximate person deixis refers to the use of words like 'I,' 'you,'…
Presupposition Trigger
A presupposition trigger is a word or phrase that signals the existence…
Presupposition Denial
Presupposition denial is a linguistic phenomenon where a speaker challenges an underlying…
Presupposition in Linguistics and Philosophy
A presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief…
Potential Presupposition
A potential presupposition is an unstated assumption that must be true for…
Potential Implicature
Potential implicature refers to what a speaker might suggest or imply, even…
Place Deixis
Place deixis refers to words or phrases that indicate spatial location relative…