Second language learners' comprehension of conversational implicatures in English
Conversational implicature is a case in which a speaker produces a coded utterance to convey certain intent. The listener of the utterance then decodes the speaker’s intent accurately and ‘intuitively’. For instance, a speaker saying that ‘the room is hot’ could mean that the listener is expected...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2017
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12842/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12842/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12842/1/19996-59955-1-PB.pdf |