Conventional implicature revisited  

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Vallee, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 40 no. 3 (Mar. 2008), page 407-430.
Topik: Semantics; Conventional implicature; ‘‘but’’; Reflexive semantics; Frege; Grice
Fulltext: Valle_Richard.pdf (230.39KB)

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I suggest a new approach to terms famous for introducing conventional implicatures, ‘‘even’’, ‘‘but’’, and so on. I call these expressions View on Content Devices or VCDs. First, I focus on the nature of VCD’s semantic contribution to sentences. I then ignore the specifics of each VCD and sketch my own account, using the Reflexive–Referential framework Perry recently introduced (2001) in semantics. Second, I examine the semantic behaviour of ‘‘but’’ and distinguish it from ‘‘and’’. I then show the fruitfulness and explanatory power of the Reflexive–Referential framework. Intuitively, VCDs are very simple expressions, and my suggestion is designed to capture that prima facie simplicity.

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