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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| description | 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 that ignorance inferences depend on the maxim of quantity for their derivation. Here it is argued that the situation with Scalar Implicatures is different. This is expected by the grammatical theory of Scalar Implicatures, but not by standard Gricean or neo-Gricean alternatives. Keywords: Implicatures, Scalar Implicatures, ignorance inferences, Maxim of Quantity,
Exhaustification, Exh |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1129212022-09-23T09:56:36Z Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures Fox, Daniel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Fox, Daniel 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 that ignorance inferences depend on the maxim of quantity for their derivation. Here it is argued that the situation with Scalar Implicatures is different. This is expected by the grammatical theory of Scalar Implicatures, but not by standard Gricean or neo-Gricean alternatives. Keywords: Implicatures, Scalar Implicatures, ignorance inferences, Maxim of Quantity, Exhaustification, Exh 2017-12-21T18:44:46Z 2017-12-21T18:44:46Z 2014-04 2013-10 2017-12-21T15:44:27Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1937-8912 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112921 Fox, Danny. “Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another Challenge for a Gricean Theory of Scalar Implicatures.” Semantics and Pragmatics 7 (April 28, 2014). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-0755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/SP.7.5 Semantics and Pragmatics Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Society of America |
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| title | Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures |
| title_full | Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures |
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| title_short | Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures |
| title_sort | cancelling the maxim of quantity another challenge for a gricean theory of scalar implicatures |
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