Accommodating Presuppositions Is Inappropriate in Implausible Contexts

According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker can convey contextually new information in one of two ways: (a) by asserting the content as new information; or (b) by presupposing the content as given information which would then have to be accommodated....

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Main Authors: Singh, Raj, Fedorenko, Evelina G., Mahowald, Kyle Adam, Gibson, Edward A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102974
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