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Where do lmplicatures come from?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Rod Bertolet
Rod Bertolet*
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Purdue University
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There is trouble at the foundations of Grice's theory of conversational implicature, or so I shall argue. Grice's commentators seem to agree, and some of Grice's own remarks suggest, that every case of implicature is one in which ‘the speaker gets across more than he says…. ’ The problem is that there are cases in which nothing is said - in which case it is not clear that there is any vehicle by which the implicature might be carried, and consequently not clear that Grice's theory can account for the implicature which does appear to be carried.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 181 - 191
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Copyright © The Authors 1983

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