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Normal state implicature

Year: 1990

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In the right situation, a speaker can use an unqualified indefinite description without being misunderstood. This use of language, normal state implicature, is a kind of conversational implicature, i.e. a non-truth-functional context-dependent inference based upon language users' awareness of principles of cooperative conversation. I present a convention for identifying normal state implicatures which is based upon mutual beliefs of the speaker and hearer about certain properties of the speaker's plan. A key property is the precondition that an entity playing a role in the plan must be in a normal state with respect to the plan.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/981823.981835

Author: Nancy L. Green

Institution: University of Delaware

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

OpenAlex ID: W2105791158

FWCI: 1.023

Cites: 18

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10