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Presupposition and Implicature
Abstract
Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre-eminent place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely explored sources of insight into how language and context interact, the role of social cognition in shaping linguistic behavior, and the nature of linguistic meaning itself. This chapter provides a broad overview of these phenomena and current theories of them. The presuppositions of an utterance are the pieces of information that the speaker assumes in order for her utterance to be meaningful in the current context. This broad characterization encompasses everything from general conversational norms to the particulars of how specific linguistic expressions are construed. The chapter reviews tests for presuppositions that concern their status in the discourse. It derives some conversational implicatures using the Gricean maxims, and traces the development of theoretical and formal perspectives on conventional implicature.
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- Authors
- Potts, C.
- Venue
- The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-08-21
- Pages
- 168-202
- OpenAlex
- W2121416372
- Cited by
- 301
- References
- 183
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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