Implicatures in the Tweets of Climate Change Skeptics
The article attempts to provide a speech act analysis of tweets which are posted by climate change skeptics. It argues that their deliberate flouting and violation of Grice's Cooperative Principle show that substitute overt denial by conversational implicatures which show skepticism. Based on d...
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