Conversational Implicatures Are Still Cancellable
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Summary, in English
Is it true that all conversational implicatures are cancellable? In some recent works (Weiner 2006, followed by Blome-Tillmann 2008 and, most recently, by Hazlett 2012), the property of cancellability that, according to Grice (1989), conversational implicatures must possess has been called into question. The aim of this paper is to show that the cases on which Weiner builds his argument—the Train Case and the Sex Pistols Case— do not really suffice to endanger Grice’s Cancellability Hypothesis. What Weiner has shown with his examples is that a conversational implicature cannot be cancelled if the speaker, whose utterance gives rise to the implicature, does not intend to cancel it. To implicate is an intentional speech act and, therefore, cancelling an implicature must also be intentional and must be performed by the same speaker whose utterance gives rise to the putative implicature.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
321-327
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Acta Analytica
Volym
28
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Nyckelord
- Conversational implicatures
- Cancellability hypothesis
- Implication by irony
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0353-5150
- DOI 10.1007/s12136-012-0177-x