One of Grice's unpublications is about conjunctions and disjunctions in the scope of non-doxastic attiude verbs.
Yes, you heard that right!
These constructions, Grice claims, generate a certain type of ignorance implicature.
It has been argued that the best way to account for these implicatures is by an appeal to a notion of contextual redundancy (vide e.g. Schlenker, Fox, Mayr and Romoli).
This pragmatic approach to ignorance implicatures obviously contrasts with a semantic account of disjunctions under `wonder' that appeals to so-called "exhausti cation" (Roelofsen and Uegaki).
It may been argued that "exhausti cation"-based theories cannot handle embedded conjunctions.
Therefore, a pragmatic account of ignorance implicatures seems preferable.
No comments:
Post a Comment