Thursday, April 15, 2010

Wittgenstein and Grice in Norway

Difference: Witters went (and stayed). Grice is quoted.

J. Fretheim, The Effect of Intonation on a Type of Scalar
Implicature. In Kasher, "Implicature", Routledge.

Fretheim argues that the 'at least' interpretation
of cardinals is possible in Norwegian only when the
phrase containing the cardinal refers to some entity that
is salient in the discourse. Salience is reflected in
intonation, which is an important information-structuring
device. In a postscript specially written for this
volume, the author admits that 'at least' interpretations
are sometimes natural without a special intonation
pattern.

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