Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures

Grice (1975) pointed out that the ignorance inferences normally drawn when disjunctive sentences are uttered are cancelled when it is presupposed that speakers are not going to provide all of the relevant information that they have available (e.g., in the context of a treasure hunt). This argues th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fox, Daniel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112921
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