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Implicatures in Grammar

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This chapter develops a research program on implicatures and discourse structure with implications for grammar. The program shows the centrality of discourse structure in linguistic interpretation by detailing how discourse structure provides an important source of information to computing so-called scalar implicatures. While scalar implicatures have typically received a Gricean treatment based on reasoning about the content of sentences in isolation since the work of Larry Horn, the Gricean tradition misses an important, indeed decisive, component in the calculation of implicatures−discourse structure. This has general implications for the way discourse structure is treated within grammar. This chapter considers settings where implicatures are generated in the absence of strong Gricean cooperativity, in particular, non-cooperative settings where Gricean principles do not really apply as they are formulated by current proposals. The study proposes a different mechanism for deriving implicatures in such settings.
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hal-03190196 , version 1 (06-04-2021)

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Nicholas Asher. Implicatures in Grammar. Guéron, Jacqueline. Sentence and Discourse, chapter 7, Oxford University Press, 2015, 978-0198739418. ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739418.003.0007⟩. ⟨hal-03190196⟩
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