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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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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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Testimony, Luck, and Conversational Implicature
2023Abstract Speakers convey messages in a variety of ways, including assertion, presupposition, and conversational implicature. Assertion is the paradigm vehicle for acts of testifying. The speaker gives her word to her audience that the presented content is true, allowing them to gain knowledge via a distinctive mechanism: believing on the
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Are all conversational implicatures cancellable?
Analysis, 2006Ramsey. 1927. Truth and probability. In Philosophical Papers, ed. D. H. Mellor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Seidenfeld, T, M. Schervish and J. Kadane. 1990. When fair betting odds are not degrees of belief. PSA (proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association) 1: 517-24. Skyrms, B. 1987. Coherence. In Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical
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Calculability, Convention, and Conversational Implicature
2018I applaud the arguments in Lepore and Stone (2015) that Gricean, Neo-Gricean, and Relevance theories of conversational implicature and utterance interpretation are deeply flawed because the additional meanings speakers convey when using sentences are conventional rather than calculable. I then go on to rebut several conclusions Lepore and Stone endorse
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Conversational Implicature, Thought, and Communication
Mind & Language, 2008Abstract: Some linguistic phenomena can occur in uses of language in thought, whereas others only occur in uses of language in communication. I argue that this distinction can be used as a test for whether a linguistic phenomenon can be explained via Grice’s theory of conversational implicature (or any theory similarly based on principles governing ...
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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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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