Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions
In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not ta...
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| description | In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not take into account the interactive reasoning of what else the speaker could have said, and how else the hearer could have interpreted the (alternative) sentence(s). I show how Franke's idea relates to more traditional pragmatic interpretation strategies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-00ffb88fa0b344f18dee69e11fe3dbbd2022-12-21T23:00:39ZengLinguistic Society of AmericaSemantics and Pragmatics1937-89122010-09-013012810.3765/sp.3.111112Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctionsRobert van Rooij0ILLCIn this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures. Following Franke (2010, 2009), I suggest that earlier proposals failed, because they did not take into account the interactive reasoning of what else the speaker could have said, and how else the hearer could have interpreted the (alternative) sentence(s). I show how Franke's idea relates to more traditional pragmatic interpretation strategies. doi:10.3765/sp.3.11 <a href="http://semantics-online.org/sp-bib/vanrooij-2010.bib">BibTeX info</a>http://semprag.org/article/view/901embedded implicaturesoptimal interpretationfree choice permission |
| spellingShingle | Robert van Rooij Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions Semantics and Pragmatics embedded implicatures optimal interpretation free choice permission |
| title | Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions |
| title_full | Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions |
| title_fullStr | Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions |
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| title_short | Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions |
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| topic | embedded implicatures optimal interpretation free choice permission |
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