Lingua Sphere

When language is spoken, it occurs in a specific location, at a specific time, is produced by a specific person and is (usually) addressed ...

Grundy (2000: 121) divides presupposition into pragmatic presupposition and semantic presupposition. Pragmatic presupposition is cancelable...

When someone speaks to us, we typically make all sorts of assumptions about the background to their utterance which we presume to be mutual...

A dialog from ‘Bahwa Cinta Itu Ada’ The Movie. Suatu siang di kampus ITB, para anak muda berbaris untuk registrasi penerimaan mahasiswa ba...

Conversational implicature is any meaning implied by or understood from the utterance of a sentence which goes beyond what is strictly said ...