S. Borge, "Conversational implicatures and cancellability" (Acta Analytica)

Steffen Borge (2009).

Conversational Implicatures and Cancellability. Acta Analytica 24 (2):149-154.

Borge argues against a criticism by M. Weiner to Grice’s thesis that cancellability is a necessary condition for conversational implicature.

Borge argues 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.

Borge moreover points out that there are special situations in which the supposed cancellation may really work as a cancellation.