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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.7.5 BibTeX info

Source: Semantics and Pragmatics

DOI: 10.3765/sp.7.5

Author: Danny Fox

Institutions: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2070920010

FWCI: 56.68

Cites: 46

Cited by: 120

Related to: 10