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 tha...
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Linguistic Society of America
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2859 |