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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod



Query Details


Query Subject:   Cancelling Gricean Implicatures
Author:   Emma Borg
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):  Pragmatics

Query:   I read somewhere that Generalized Conversational Implicatures can be
cancelled by purely syntactic features; for instance, they are not present
in downward entailing contexts. However, I don't know who discusses this
point or where.

If anyone could let me know who first raised this point, or where it has
been subsequently discussed, I'd be very grateful.

Emma Borg
Philosophy Department
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA
UK
LL Issue: 16.2044
Date posted: 30-Jun-2005



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