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Book Title                              : Discourse Analysis: 2 nd Edition Author                                     : Brian Paltridge Year of Publication                : 2012 Publisher                                  : Bloomsbury Pages                                       : 282 Description of the Book    ...

Book Title                              : The Language of Conversation Author                                     : Francesca Pridham Year of Publication               : 2001 Publisher                                : Routledge Pages                                       : 96 Description of the Book        : T...

Title                             : Vagueness in Implicature: The Case of Modified Adjectives Researchers                  : Timothy Leffel                                       Alexandre Cremers                                       Nicole Gotzner                            ...

Title                             : Processing Conversational Implicatures: Alternatives and Counterfactual Reasoning Researchers                : Bob van Tiel and Walter Schaeken Year of Publication    : 2016 Source                          : Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 41, Pages 1119–1154.  DOI:10.1111/cogs.12362 Objectives                    : 1. To describe the four kinds of inferences (Bott and Noveck: 2004) in more detail which are scalar inferences, free choice inferences, conditional perfection, and exhaustivity in “it”-clefts.              ...

Title                             : Abduction, Conversational Implicature, and Misleading in Human Dialogues Researchers                 : Chiaki Sakama and Katsumi Inoue Year of Publication    : 2016 Source                          : Logic Journal of IGPL, Volume 24(4), Pages 526–541.                                      DOI:10.1093/jigpal/jzw027                                     Dowloaded from http://jigpal.oxfordjourn...

Title                              : Conversational Implicature of Indonesian Students in Daily Communication Researcher                   : Annisa Martini Year of Publication     : 2018 Source                          : Indonesian EFL Journal, Volume 4(1), Pages 93-100 DOI: 10.25134/ieflj.v4i1.889 Objectives                : To analyze the types of conversational implicature made by Indonesian students in their daily conversation and the functions constructed by Indonesian students in their conversational implicature. Method                  : The method used in thi...

Reviewing Articles under the Issue of Making Sense of Discourse and Developing Discourse Competence Topic Title  : The Use of Discourse Markers among Mandarin Chinese Teachers, and Chinese as a Second Language and Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners Researchers : Pei-Shu Tsai and Wo-Hsin Chu Source           : Applied Linguistics 2015: 1–29 Oxford University Press 2015 doi:10.1093/applin/amv057 http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/ Objectives    : Elaborating on the insights gained from past studies. The present study further analyzed the frequency and function of these markers produced by Chinese teachers, as well as CSL (Chinese as a second language) and CFL (Chinese as a foreign language) learners during online Chinese language courses. Problem       :1. What is the relationship between the use of DMs and language learning? 2. Does the frequency of DMs reflect a Chinese learner’s verbal ability? 3. ...

Reviewing Articles under the Issue of Making Sense of Discourse and Developing Discourse Competence  Topic Title    : Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language Researcher    : Shoshana Blum-Kulka Source             : Applied Linguistics, III(1), 29-59 Oxford University Press doi:10.1093/applin/iii.1.29 Objectives      : Investigate the acquisition of knowledge about the performance of indirect speech acts in a second language for three purposes: 1)  to provide techniques for assessment of advanced levels of communicative competence in a second language 2)  to try and develop a model for a comparative cross-cultural analysis of speech-act performance across languages 3)  to show the difficulties in the acquisition of complex forms of linguistic and social interference in a second language...