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Conversational Implicatures and Cancellability
Acta Analytica, 2009In this paper I argue against a criticism by Matthew Weiner to Grice’s thesis that cancellability is a necessary condition for conversational implicature. I argue that the purported counterexamples fail because the supposed failed cancellation in the cases Weiner presents is not meant as a cancellation but as a reinforcement of the implicature.
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Law and Conversational Implicatures
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2010This essay investigates the applicability of Grice’s theory of conversational implicatures to legal interpretation, in order to highlight some of its characteristics. After introducing the notions of language and discourse, and briefly explaining the most salient aspects of Grice’s theory, I will analyse the interpretation of two types of legal acts ...
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Conversational Implicatures Are Still Cancellable
Acta Analytica, 2012Is it true that all conversational implicatures are cancellable? In some recent works (Weiner Analysis 66(2):127–130, 2004, followed by Blome-Tillmann Analysis 68(2):156–160, 2008 and, most recently, by Hazlett 2012), the property of cancellability that, according to Grice (1989), conversational implicatures must possess has been called into question ...
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Conversational Implicatures and Legal Texts
Ratio Juris, 2015AbstractLegal texts are often given interpretations that deviate from their literal meanings. While legal concerns often motivate these interpretations, others can be traced to linguistic phenomena. This paper argues that systematicities of language usage, captured by certain theories of conversational implicature, can sometimes explain why the ...
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The Semantic Reading and Conversational Implicature
1996The pragmatic notion of conversational implicature is in an important respect similar to the notion of deixis, in the sense that the notion is motivated by features of language use for which the traditional semantic techniques cannot account. The problem is that the uses of linguistic expressions often convey more information than is expressed by their
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Grice, Conversational Implicature and Philosophy
2013The importance of Grice’s theory of conversation and in particular his account of conversational implicature (Grice in Studies in the way of words. Harvard University Press, Harvard, pp. 22–40, 1975; 1978) in the development and current concerns of pragmatics is almost impossible to exaggerate.
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A Tool for Extracting Conversational Implicatures
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2012Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan
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Conversational Implicatures and Communication Theory
2003According to standard pragmatics, we should account for conversational implicatures in terms of (1975) maxims of conversation. Neo-Griceans like (1981) and (1984) seek to reduce those maxims to the so-called Q and I-principles. In this paper I want to argue that (i) there are major problems for reducing Gricean pragmatics to these two principles, and ...
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