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5 - Conventional Implicature and Presupposition

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics

from Part II - Types of Implicature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Sandrine Zufferey
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Jacques Moeschler
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
Anne Reboul
Affiliation:
Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR 5304
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Summary

This chapter discusses a special case of implicature that since Grice has been labelled conventional implicature and explains how it differs from both particularized and generalized conversational implicatures. The second purpose of this chapter is to show the analogies and differences between presuppositions and implicatures. It is argued that the two notions are clearly distinct because, unlike presuppositions, conventional implicatures cannot be backgrounded and cannot project.

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Implicatures , pp. 88 - 110
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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