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Conversational Implicatures Are Still Cancellable

Författare

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