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At least and ignorance: A reply to Coppock & Brochhagen 2013

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This commentary revisits Coppock & Brochhagen’s 2013 account of speaker ignorance inferences associated with at least. The general principle that Coppock & Brochhagen propose to derive inferences about the speaker’s information state, the Maxim of Interactive Sincerity, is shown to not fully derive the intended ignorance inferences. Amendments to Coppock & Brochhagen’s proposal are discussed, but an account of the relevant inferences in terms of Gricean quantity implicature, as proposed in Büring 2008 and subsequent work, emerges as more parsimonious. BibTeX info

Source: Semantics and Pragmatics

DOI: 10.3765/sp.9.10

Author: Bernhard Schwarz

Institution: McGill University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Award: G801411847