Grice's Implicature (And What He Meant By It)

by JLS
for the GC

THOSE WHO WERE LUCKY TO ATTEND to the conference, "New Trends in the Study of Implicatures," organized by the Formal Epistemology Project, KULeuven, Institute of Philosophy, were very pleased.

Leuven, Thursday 10 - Friday 11 december 2009, The Formal Philosophy Project, Institute of Philosophy/Center for Analytic Philosophy, Leuven

The explanation of what speakers intend to communicate by relying on the audience’s capacity to figure out what they mean by applying Gricean maxims remains an exciting and provocative field or research.

For some, pragmatic explanations are an obvious tool in the explanation of speaker mean and assert, while others refer to the whole project as ‘dark pragmatic magic’ that obscures rather than illuminates the problems and issues.

During the conference new conceptual, formal and empirical approaches to the study of conventional implicatures, generalized implicatures and particularized conversational implicatures were presented with a view to a better understanding of the Gricean phenomena.

Kent Bach (San Francisco)
Ten More Misconceptions About Implicatures

Michael Blome Tillmann (McGill, Montreal)
Knowledge and Conversational Implicatures

Robert Van Rooij (UvAmsterdam)
Implicatures as rational behavior. A Bi-OT/GT analysis of Implicatures

Igor Douven (KULeuven)
Lotteries, Assertion, and the Pragmatics of Belief

Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona)
Presuppositions, Assertions and Conventional Implicatures: Foundational Issues

Eros Corazza (Carleton/San Sebastian)
Samesaying, Pluripropositionalism and Implicatures

Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
Generalised but not default? Some empirical evidence for the third way for scalar implicatures

Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Free choice explained

Walter Schaeken, Kristien Dieussaert, Leen Janssens
(Leuven) -- Some effort for some: Working Memory and Scalar Implicatures