How to cancel an implicature
Cancelability is one of the main tests to identify conversational implicature in general, and scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely looked at. This paper presents an account of when the cancellation of a scalar implicature is an acceptable...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio Digital de la UPF |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/34187 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.002 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Conversational implicatures Scalar implicatures Cancellation Question under discussion Projective meaning Experimental pragmatics |
| Sumario: | Cancelability is one of the main tests to identify conversational implicature in general, and scalar implicatures in particular. Despite this fact, cancelability itself is a phenomenon rarely looked at. This paper presents an account of when the cancellation of a scalar implicature is an acceptable discourse move and provides experimental evidence to support our proposal. Our main claim is that the felicity of a scalar implicature cancellation depends on the discourse structure. More speci cally, cancellation is acceptable only if it addresses a Question Under Discussion that di ers from the previous one. As will be shown, this proposal has the additional bene t of permitting us to tease apart cancellations from self-repairs. |
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