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 th...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
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