Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives

Both disjunctive assertions and disjunctive questions can imply “not both”, i.e., that only one of the disjuncts is true. For assertions this is known to be part of what the speaker means (e.g., an implicature), whereas for questions this is instead a presupposition. This puzzle is challenging for p...

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Autor: Westera, Matthijs
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Palavra-chave:Exhaustivity
Implicature
Presupposition
Disjunction
Alternative question
Pragmatics
Intonation
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spelling Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogativesWestera, MatthijsExhaustivityImplicaturePresuppositionDisjunctionDisjunctionAlternative questionPragmaticsIntonationBoth disjunctive assertions and disjunctive questions can imply “not both”, i.e., that only one of the disjuncts is true. For assertions this is known to be part of what the speaker means (e.g., an implicature), whereas for questions this is instead a presupposition. This puzzle is challenging for predominant pragmatic and grammatical accounts of exhaustivity in the literature. This paper outlines a solution based on Attentional Pragmatics combined with (other) general pragmatic principles.Osnabrück University202120212020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/48506reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésProceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. 2020;24(2):423-38.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/485062026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
title Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
spellingShingle Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
Westera, Matthijs
Exhaustivity
Implicature
Presupposition
Disjunction
Disjunction
Alternative question
Pragmatics
Intonation
title_short Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
title_full Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
title_fullStr Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
title_full_unstemmed Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
title_sort Implying or implicating not both in declaratives and interrogatives
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Westera, Matthijs
author Westera, Matthijs
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Exhaustivity
Implicature
Presupposition
Disjunction
Disjunction
Alternative question
Pragmatics
Intonation
topic Exhaustivity
Implicature
Presupposition
Disjunction
Disjunction
Alternative question
Pragmatics
Intonation
description Both disjunctive assertions and disjunctive questions can imply “not both”, i.e., that only one of the disjuncts is true. For assertions this is known to be part of what the speaker means (e.g., an implicature), whereas for questions this is instead a presupposition. This puzzle is challenging for predominant pragmatic and grammatical accounts of exhaustivity in the literature. This paper outlines a solution based on Attentional Pragmatics combined with (other) general pragmatic principles.
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