On embedded implicatures
- The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth-conditional content of constituents smaller than utterances. In this paper, I investigate three areas where embedded implicatures seem to differ from implicatures at the utterance level: optionality, epistemic status, and implicated presuppositions. I conclude that the differences between the two kinds of implicatures justify an approach that maintains Gricean assumptions at the utterance level, and assumes a special operator for embedded implicatures.
Author: | Uli Sauerland |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1128022 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/journals/JCSimplicatures.pdf |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2009/05/05 |
Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2009/05/05 |
Note: | Preprint, später in: Journal of Cognitive Science 5.2004, S. 107–137 |
Source: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/journals/JCSimplicatures.pdf ; (in:) Journal of Cognitive Science, 5, 2004, S. 107–137 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 213492628 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |