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6 - Generalized Conversational Implicatures

Gricean, Neo-Gricean and Post-Gricean Pragmatics

from Part II - Types of Implicature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Sandrine Zufferey ,
Jacques Moeschler  and
Anne Reboul
Sandrine Zufferey
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Jacques Moeschler
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
Anne Reboul
Affiliation:
Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR 5304
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Summary

This chapter discusses generalized conversational implicatures, especially quantitative or scalar implicatures, clausal implicatures and informative implicatures. First, the notion of quantitative scale is introduced as well as its relation to the logical square and its role in the computation of scalar implicatures. Then the reduction of Grice’s nine maxims to two general principles, as proposed by neo-Gricean models of pragmatics, is illustrated and critically discussed. Finally, the chapter presents an alternative to the neo-Gricean approach to scalar implicatures, involving a covert exhaustification operator (only) that operates at the syntax-semantics interface.

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generalized conversational implicaturesneo-Gricean pragmaticsLevinsonHornscalar implicatureslogical squareI-implicaturesQ-implicaturesCherchia
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Implicatures , pp. 111 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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