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Friday, April 30, 2010

Abstract to Borge, "Conversational Implicature" (2009):

"In this paper I argue against a criticism by M. Weiner to Grice's

thesis that cancellability is a necessary condition

for conversational implicature. I argue that the

purported counterexamples fail because the supposed

failed cancellation in the cases Weiner presents

is not meant as a cancellation but as a reinforcement

of the implicature."

Could Weiner have been so myopic?

"I moreover point out that there are special situations

in which the supposed cancellation may really

work as a cancellation."

---- Piece of work, if you axe me!

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