NMTS Meeting 7

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Semantics 4: Groups Implicature and Presupposition

Preparation: Read chapters 4 and 5 of Yule 1996[1]

Presupposition

Group 3

Presentation: [html://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~sailer/nmts-wise1213/Presuppositions.notebook]

Implicature

Group 4

Presentation: Prezi - Implicatures

Homework for the next meeting

Revision of today's material

Come up with or report a short dialogue and use it to illustrate:

  1. one entailment
  2. one presupposition (what is the trigger? what kind of presupposition is it?)
  3. one implicature (what kind of implicature is it? show the calculation by applying the maximes in the case of conversational implicatures)

Upload your solution to this page: NMTS-InferencePage

Preparation for the next meeting

Install the following software on your computer:

  • for the sound: Audacity
  • for the video:
    • iMovie (for Mac)
    • Moviemaker (for Windows)

If possible, bring to the class:

  • your computer with the programs installed,
  • a headset so that you can do recordings on the spot.

References

  1. Yule, George (1996): Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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