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Abstract This paper considers four lines of objection to the efficacy or worth of Grice's cancellability test for conversational implicatures – the coherence objection, the entailment objection, the sarcasm objection,… Click to show full abstract
Abstract This paper considers four lines of objection to the efficacy or worth of Grice's cancellability test for conversational implicatures – the coherence objection, the entailment objection, the sarcasm objection, and the ambiguity objection. I argue that the test survives these objections relatively unscathed; and hence conclude that the cancellability test is still a significant, useful, reliable indicator at the semantics/pragmatics interface.
Keywords:
cancellability test;
evaluating cancellability;
objection
Journal Title: Journal of Pragmatics
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Journal of Pragmatics
Year Published: 2017
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