The Importance of Being 'Only': Testing the Neo-Gricean Versus Neo-Entailment Paradigms  

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Atlas, Jay David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 10 no. 4 (Apr. 1993), page 301-318.
Topik: Gricean Pragmatics; Semantic Representations; Conjunction
Fulltext: vol 10, no 4, p 301-318.pdf (943.87KB)

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In Atlas (1991) I proposed a novel account of the logical form of statements having the form 'Only a is F' and the form 'Also a is F\ an analysis of the entailments and of the implicatures of those statements, and a discussion of the effects of focal stress on implicatures. In this paper I discuss the merits of my account over those of a Gricean account offered by Peter Geach (1962), Larry Horn (1992), and James McCawley (1981). In doing so I discuss several fundamental problems in Gricean Pragmatics: the nature of the cancellation of implicatures, the intrusion into truth-conditions of pragmatic inference, Negative Polarity Items, and the nonmonotonicity of'only a' as a Generalized Quantifier.

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