Presupposition-Cancellation and Metalinguistic Negation: A Reply to Carston  

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Burton-Roberts, Noel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST & JSTOR) vol. 35 no. 2 (Mar. 1999), page 347-364.
Fulltext: Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 347-364.pdf (475.09KB)

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This is a response to Carston's critique of my account of presupposition-cancellation. While accepting her demonstration that (contra 'On Horn's dilemma') pre- supposition-cancellation does not involve a linguistically encoded contradiction, I show that this is nevertheless consistent with the account of presupposition proposed in Burton-Roberts I993/7. In fact, Carston's and my accounts of presupposition- cancellation both treat it as involving a pragmatically derived contradiction. I also reconsider the nature of so-called 'metalinguistic negation', arguing against Carston that there is a special use of negation (!MN) which involves a use-mention mix and a pragmatically derived contradiction, and is non-truth-functional. I show that, although !MN is echoic, not all echoic negations are examples of !MN.

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